Who knew what and when? Trial hears new details of timeline after Brittany Higgins’ alleged rape

Brittany Higgins told the court that she repeatedly told her superiors in the offices of Michaelia Cash and Linda Reynolds of her alleged rape. Composite: The Guardian/AAP, EPA

“Are you familiar with the term ‘plausible deniability’?”

The prosecutor’s question, posed to Senator Michaelia Cash on the last full day of evidence in the Bruce Lehrmann trial, cut to a critical issue that has hovered around the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins in the early hours of 23 March 2019.