AS I watched the CCTV footage of Brittany Higgins going through security and into the ministerial wing of Parliament House in the early a.m. of 23 March 2019, something about it seemed familiar. Aired Sunday night by Seven News and rustling embers of infamy back into flames, the video of an attractive woman in white (from 2:37) behaving collectedly – not unsteadily – was embarrassingly mismatched with her earlier recollection. Then I remembered: it was oddly similar to the finale of 1994 sex and power thriller, Disclosure, when the falsely accused Tom Sanders (Michael Douglas) humiliates vixenish accuser Meredith Johnson (Demi Moore) at a merger conference pre-rigged to destroy him. Malaysian Channel 3 to the rescue. An old-fashioned gas-lit victim flick supercharged with a sex scene and a memorably frank legal mediation, Disclosure was a smash at the box office. Feminists hated it. “This is really not the way to educate people about sexual harassment,” moaned Vanderbilt gender theorist Bonnie Dow. Turns out, though, it is. Ask John Jarratt, Geoffrey Rush, Craig McLachlan, Christian Porter, Andrew Laming and Bruce Lehrmann.
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So she wasn’t bladdered?
The tale pretty clearly doesn’t match the video.
I understand that Drumgold has yet to complete his evidence to the Sofronoff inquiry. If so, he must be questioned about the video. Is this the one his junior insinuated to the police that it was in police possession and had been withheld by them? Given the police reluctance to charge, that they did so doesn’t seem to make sense. But the questioning might open avenues leading to a solution to the the mystery surrounding such significant evidence.
Perfidious Albino _ I have now seen your similar post on the earlier post of CL. I guess there must be very many others who have spotted the problem for Drumgold. Maybe it is a problem for the police too if, that is, they didn’t disclose it to the defence.
C.L.
A great photograph to mark the occasion.
Poor Brittany is probably slowly learning that the elites have used her and will not care if her life and reputation are destroyed. Lie down with dogs etc.
Thanks, NFA.
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I can’t believeI note that Peter Dutton is again MIA. At the very least, he should be calling for Plibersek and Gallagher to resign and the NACC to begin an investigation into the government’s bribery and obstruction of justice.I am concerned for her welfare. She’s no Meredith Johnson. She’s too immature to be married and her husband is a manipulative dickhead.
On the other hand, she was very eager to send a man to prison for years.
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The Cassinator:
Are the wheels beginning to fall off the Albanese train?
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Her welfare is assured in ways BH, being a mature woman, had calculated.
I think Dutton would be well advised to wait for the Sofronoff report, my concern about it is that it seems that Drumgold was excused from completing his interview.
My understanding was that the police eventually did what Drumgold told them to do, because that is their job. The final decision, however flawed, is the Prosecutor’s, but so is the responsibility if it all goes pear-shaped (as the police implied it would).
If he saw this footage and let Higgins perjure herself (which would seem, on viewing the video) to be the case, he must surely wear as much blame as Higgins.
Gallagher really seems caught dead-to-rights.
Sharaz named her directly as his lap-dog with no compulsion in play, and then she acted exactly as directed to. THEN gave the millions to Sharaz, her handler (? yeah Double / Triple Entendre), via his flunky Brittany for no legitimate reason.
This is just so corrupt in a dozen ways. Dutton’s a former detective and can SURELY make a case on this evidence, FFS!
My impression was, for the most part, Higgins was hoping for a political coup and was very reluctant to be involved in a police investigation, but realised there had to be one to underpin her allegations.
Look at her wanting to make sure Lehrmann would never be able to stand for Liberal pre-election.
And then, quelle surprise, she lost control of her snowball.
NFA (8.20am) I’ve been to the various cemeteries along the Normandy coast a number of times. A mate was born in Caen in the late 1940s……which was in the thick of it only 5 years earlier.
One grave (of many) which I was particularly interested in…..https://blog.disneygeek.com/2015/10/03/theodore-roosevelt-jrs-grave-in-the-american-cemetery-in-normandy-france/…….
An old and famous (and crippled in WWI battles) businessman/politician leaves the boards of American Express and Doubleday to return to the Military, to then land in Nth Africa, and then be the oldest man OF ALL in the first wave on D-Day….the only General in all the armies ashore….survived his Medal of Honor action, etc etc….but not his WWI experiences.
“One GI later reported that seeing the general walking around, apparently unaffected by the enemy fire, even when clods of earth fell down on him, gave him the courage to get on with the job, saying if the general is like that it cannot be that bad.”
Compare that guy with the F’Wits now running the US Military…and ruining the Oz ADF to boot. Where were ted’s fishnets and high heels I wonder.
Imagine if this was done by a Liberal ACT Govt (I know, an imagination tooooo far) and Labor would tar every Federal Liberal MP who had their hands anywhere near this. And everyone who didn’t!
Labor who get every bit of mileage possible. Never misses an opportunity.
Not the Liberals. There they sit there sucking their thumbs. Waiting for Godot (Sofronoff) to eventually produce a report when the public has long moved on.
Not an ounce of fight in them.
If anyone can explain how we heard so many times she could barely stand , let alone walk when she arrived and now she just strolls down the corridor.
Misinformation, thy name is main stream media.
Thank you Mantaray for your anecdotes and totally agree your opinion of the current US and Australian military “leaderships”.
When is the Royal Commission?
LOL.
The number of people who are expert in other people’s experience of sex is astonishing. Curiously, CL lists male names only. Women involved, it seems, are “vixenish”. A man with no daughters.
Crusader the white night rides in to save the vixenish damsel and her controller crones.
crusada just nixed itself
B Higgins presented quite differently in the Project Interview and the March4 Justice rally compared to the National Press Club address and the Marie Claire magazine covershoot with Grace Tame where they were “Women of the Year”( November 2021). She was extremely articulate, confident and self-assured in the NPC speech. Similarly, reports of her poor mental health and admission to a psychiatric clinic following the conclusion of the trial, and then University graduation with distinction a few days later (the settlement was made in between “It is understood Noor Blumer, a founding partner of Blumers Lawyers has been quietly negotiating the claim since February”). According to a Daily Mail story, her boyfriend posted on Instagram: “Somehow she managed to start and complete four assignments during a criminal trial, snapping up distinctions along the way”. Perhaps she was able to work on the assignments during the break in the trial when the suppression order was in place. A few weeks later Higgins and her fiance were pictured snorkelling in the Maldives, with Higgins posting on Instagram: “Our little summer getaway! As the Enya song says, ‘sail, sail away!’,” It’s hard to reconcile some of the news reports with the personal text message revelations, eg a month before the Parliament House incident she had joked in a text message to an ex-boyfriend about “wanting a sex scandal” and then in May 2021 texting D Sharaz about the police investigators: “F..k it, if they want to play hard ball I’ll cry on The Project again because of this sort of treatment.”
The video shows BH looking very happy to be with BL, on their way together to the Minister’s rooms.
I think it likely the pair planned to leave separately …. afterwards.
BL wasn’t concerned, evidently, that his early-hours companion might contact the police.
They met some days later; something could have been said, or something refused, to then turn her into The Accuser.
Perhaps Peter Dutton is wise in holding his horses.
“The number of people who are expert in other people’s experience of sex is astonishing. Curiously, CL lists male names only. Women involved, it seems, are “vixenish”. A man with no daughters.”
Nasty. And your comment, as usual, is dishonest. But I’ll make a few things clear..
1. I’m an adult human female, who also happens to be a daughter, a sister, a niece, and a girlfriend. Note, I’m not a ciswoman (there’s no such thing), I’m a woman, a biological female with a vagina, two breasts, a uterus, a cervix, a clitoris, and all the rest of the unique anatomy that makes me a woman. I know something about “sex”, because I’ve had lots of it. It makes me and other women rather knowledgeable about “SEX”, and what happens during sex and what happens after sex, and in the case of Ms Higgins, the pertinent questions are after “SEX”.
2. Brittany Higgins alleges she was raped in parliament house one night in 2019. In her star gazed revelations to the Amphibian of Mosman, and note, she didn’t go to the police first, no, no, no, she decided to reveal all to the former editor of Dolly Magazine, Higgins made certain claims, one of which was that upon arrival in parliament house she was sloshed and the other was that she alleges Lehmann raped whilst she was on the couch. Now, I don’t know what happened in that office in parliament house, nobody does except for Bruce and Brittany, and someone is lying, lying bigtime, but the thing is, Ms Higgins has been caught out for her fibs, her lies and her embellishments. One lie is that she was drunk upon arrival, well we can see from the footage of her and Bruce arriving at Parliament House that dark night was that she was NOT sloshed, she may have been tipsy but that was it, she certainly walked steadily into the senator’s office with Bruce.
If Higgins had, as she claims, been raped that night then why, the following morning, did she not go to a doctor or the police (where she would have had a vaginal swab)? And herein lies the rub, because I know for a fact that after sex your vagina retains the feeling of penetration for hours afterwards, and I can guarantee you that if any penetration had occurred, Higgins would have felt it the following day, particularly after any forced penetration. Also, she supposedly had a bruise on her body, which has already been discredited, but any forced vaginal penetration would have resulted in some bruising around her vagina, because she would have not been properly aroused or lubricated. But Higgins chose to not go to either a doctor, or the police, afterwards, which begs the question, did a rape occur? Given her fibs, her lies and her embellishments, I don’t believe a word she now says. And let me tell you, because I do know something about sex and being a woman, if I woke up on a couch and could feel that someone had raped me a few hours earlier, the first thing I would have done is go to the police.
You have no idea, either about sex or women.
Apologies C.L. for being so explicit.
I’m sure other women here can attest to what I say above.
“The video shows BH looking very happy to be with BL, on their way together to the Minister’s rooms.
I think it likely the pair planned to leave separately …. afterwards.”
Christine reads minds via video.
BTW: they did leave separately. The young man first. After which the young woman was found asleep/unable to be awakened by security staff in the Minister’s office without her clothes.
“BTW: they did leave separately. The young man first. After which the young woman was found asleep/unable to be awakened by security staff in the Minister’s office without her clothes.”
So, have you never been asleep naked? And she was “awakened”, she wasn’t comatose. I suspect she took off her tight fitting dress off (which is why she was wearing no knickers, despite telling the Amphibian that she recalled him trying to remove knickers off….BUT THERE WEREN’T ANY KNICKERS TO TAKE OFF), because I think she found it uncomfortable on the couch in her tight fitting dress.
You’re a moron.
Oh and by the way, you seem to delight in “mansplaining” other women here.
I have no doubt Ms Higgins was also braless so it was either dress on or naked.
No surprise she took off a tight fitting dress if she wanted a kip.
“No surprise she took off a tight fitting dress if she wanted a kip.”
Yep…..I suspect Cursader’s experiences with women are few and far between.
Yes, perhaps she did not want to damage the dress. At the BOI, police said Mr Drumgold had told them Ms Higgins being naked was corroborating evidence of rape. Also, where was the grass stain that a security guard talked about on ABC 4C? “I’d noticed that she’d had grass stains down one side of her body on this pure white dress”.
I think I read on one of the BOI exhibits (which has now been unhyperlinked) that there was a tension between what Higgins said in her book about how she left the office and how she may have left. Also, the black and white jacket she was wearing when departing PH. In a recent news story, members of Reynolds’ office said there was “no goodwill bin or box or pile of clothes for charity in Reynolds’ ministerial suite. There was just a wardrobe full of the minister’s jackets”.
Some people need explicit. And you chicksplained the lot. Everything you say is true in regards to the aftermath. Men, as the “depositor” if you like, won’t know the experience or sensation. Women do because there’s a degree of cleanup involved.
On those shoes – ever tried to put on a pair of stilettos with fussy straps and no chair while wearing a skin tight dress with a back split – regardless of absent knickerage? No. You leave them off until there’s a chair handy. Which was the Minister’s office.
Yes, Crusader. Left separately. I wrote that I believed it likely to have been their Plan; an understandable, and much used, avoidance of being seen as a couple exiting together after an “encounter”. People do these things, innocent Crusader.
It was reported that the accused left hurriedly by another exit, implying guilt after assault.
But no, not necessarily the case.
Above all, the accuser’s deceitfulness can’t be disregarded.
Yet someone saw fit to reward this person.
If there was a pre conceived plan to leave separately after an encounter, then Bruce’s boy’s body language and behaviour suggests it wasn’t his first rodeo on that bronco. He strikes me though, as someone totally oblivious to the context.
Some people need explicit. And you chicksplained the lot. Everything you say is true in regards to the aftermath. Men, as the “depositor” if you like, won’t know the experience or sensation. Women do because there’s a degree of cleanup involved.”
Thanks calli.
Thank you ladies for reality-ising this story. Much appreciated.
I’m not aware of any women falsely accused of rape. What a dumb comment.
The fictional character Meredith Hunter was vixenish.
I have asked you to make arguments and to stop verballing people. Your “so, what CL is saying” shtick went out of fashion about ten years ago. All of its practitioners decamped for Twitter. All future instances will be deleted. As for your solicitude for daughters, it doesn’t rhyme well with your love of Joe Biden.
By the way, seeing Lehrmann (correctly) as the victim of multiple defamations and miscarriages of justice – and to lament what his and similar travesties say about the rule of law in Australia – is not the same thing as 1) knowing what went on in that office; or 2) thinking he’s wonderful.
“By the way, seeing Lehrmann (correctly) as the victim of multiple defamations and miscarriages of justice – and to lament what his and similar travesties say about the rule of law in Australia – is not the same thing as 1) knowing what went on in that office; or 2) thinking he’s wonderful.”
Perfectly said C.L. and your words echo how I and others feel.
Yes, and there’s the nub of how this might unfold if handled deftly. A certain friend of David Sharaz’s appears to have a LOT of explaining to do.
I wrote to my local member, a prominent Teal who campaigned on integrity and the need for a federal ICAC, asking them if they were okay with the reported Higgins payment, the single day of mediation, and the fact Linda Reynolds was gagged from attending. I didn’t expect a reply and I received none.
Texas Jack, over the few months I’ve rung the offices of several independents who campaigned on integrity, transparency, accountability in Govt. There is little interest and one staff member even told me her boss – a most prominent NACC proposer – had attended the March4Justice rally!
Sydgal
I’ve read it was a Carla Zampatti jacket from the minister’s wardrobe.
Yet another mansplaining, low energy twit smashed over the fence for six by the brilliant Cassie. No apologies required for writing so explicitly and so well.
Right there are the multiple reasons that had my doubts about the whole disgusting mess from day 1. 50 years ago not reporting a rape was understandable. Today, there may be a minority who choose not to report, but there are very, very few excuses not to.
I’m using this line, Cassie. What credibility can you assign to a young woman who chooses to report an alleged rape to the former editor of Dolly magazine before taking it to the very organisation that would investigate it?
It must be galling to Plibbers that she proved pivotal in securing government for that midwit, who then shafted her in the ministerial shuffle. Now his hands will be clean and she might go down with the ship.
Ah, the so-called independents (and Labor itself) are not interested in applying such principles to a left wing government and holding it to account.
Yeap, just like pathetic Liberal moderates are not interested in applying such principles to a left wing government and holding it to account. Try getting a reply from Andrew Bragg on this (I have, and am yet to get so much as an acknowledgement of my query).
“Megan says:
7 June, 2023 at 10:04 am”
Thanks Megan.
Reported by Samantha Maiden
Brittany Higgins’ Government compensation to be investigated by anti-corruption commission
Brittany Higgins’ taxpayer-funded compensation claim is set to be investigated by the anti-corruption commission.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/brittany-higgins-government-compensation-to-be-investigated-by-anticorruption-commission/news-story/b163df43b85deef072c21cca45d543dc
news.com getting ahead of itself there.
Reynolds will ask NACC to investigate. Whether or not it will is another matter.
She hasn’t turned out to be very good at party politics. She does the morning TV stuff pretty well but, other than that, it’s been one foot in the mouth after the other. Remember when she greeted Dutton’s elevation to the Liberal leadership by mocking his appearance – then apologising?
Yes, and her trademark is juvenile face pulling while someone else is speaking, but labor types like that shit.