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Adelaide Lang

Stage set for court battle by Brittany Higgins' ex-boss

Former political staffer Fiona Brown had been "vilified as an unfeeling apparatchik", a judge said. (Flavio Brancaleone/AAP PHOTOS)

Brittany Higgins' former boss will face off against the federal government over claims it failed to protect her following Ms Higgins' explosive allegations she was raped in Parliament House.

Fiona Brown was the chief-of-staff to then-defence minister Linda Reynolds in 2019 when Ms Higgins claimed she had been raped by her colleague Bruce Lehrmann in Ms Reynolds' office.

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