Senator Linda Reynolds is suing her former staffer Higgins, claiming her reputation was damaged by a series of social media posts containing mistruths.
alleged rape in parliament was a devastating, incomprehensible and appalling act, former foreign affairs minister Marise Payne has told a defamation trial.
"It was almost incomprehensible to me that such an appalling act could have taken place in our federal parliament ... absolutely devastating for the individual concerned." Payne said her friend and colleague of 30 years was put under an "enormous amount of pressure" in the Senate chamber in the following days.Senator Linda Reynolds is suing her former staffer Higgins, claiming her reputation was damaged by a series of social media posts.
"Knowing that some of the material was being misrepresented, in her view, made it even more difficult." She said Senator Reynolds experienced at times "depths of great despair about what had been asserted" and it impacted her emotionally, mentally, and physically.
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