The extraordinary Brittany Higgins saga, probably one of the biggest Australian political scandals of our time and devastating for multiple people, returned this week to the margin of public attention when one of the legal cases was in the Federal Court.
The alleged 2019 rape of Higgins, a staffer of then-defence industry minister Linda Reynolds, has claimed or tarnished the careers of countless political, legal and media figures. The tentacles continue to reach through the legal system.
As Katy Barnett, professor of law at Melbourne Univerity, a follower of the affair’s twists and turns, puts it, “The omnishambles continues to shamble along”.
