Good afternoon. Liberals Andrew Bragg and Bridget Archer have broken ranks to call for an inquiry into how Brittany Higgins’s text messages were leaked, with Bragg labelling debate in the Senate, where the Coalition is pursuing Katy Gallagher, “very ugly”.
The pair made the call after the finance minister denied misleading the Senate about her knowledge of Higgins’s rape allegation before it aired and Network Ten asked the Australian federal police to investigate how the texts became public.
