Good afternoon. The former Liberal staffer Nicky Hamer was in the witness box today at Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation proceedings against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson. Hamer told the court she had raised an alleged interaction between Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins with the Liberal senator Linda Reynolds weeks before the alleged rape.
Hamer said Lehrmann had said Higgins was “good looking” and asked Hamer to invite her to the pub for a drink. When they met for a drink, Hamer said Higgins had to leave early and Lehrmann hadn’t wanted her to leave so had grabbed her phone so she couldn’t call an Uber. When Hamer defended Higgins’ right to leave, Hamer said Lehrmann had called her a “feminist”.
