Category Archives: Case 18 Bruce Lehrmann

Genuine rape victims betrayed by unsubstantiated claims

Posted on December 17, 2023 by andrew

As Bruce Lehrmann’s contentious rape defamation trial of TEN and The Project’s Lisa Wilkinson enters its final week, the whole subject of sexual assault allegations and the law are in the spotlight.

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Lehrmann v TEN & Wilkinson – a most consequential trial

Posted on December 3, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. It began on November 22, 2023 and will continue for another fortnight from December 5, 2023: the defamation trial in which the respondents (TEN & Lisa Wilkinson) are trying to prove to the court that Bruce Lehrmann … Continue reading →

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Sofronoff report damns Drumgold in Higgins/Lehrmann inquiry

Posted on August 3, 2023 by andrew

2/8/2023: The report that was delivered to the ACT government on Monday (31/7/2023) but withheld from public release seems to have fallen into the hands of The Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen and Stephen Rice. Their front page story reveals the damning … Continue reading →

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Sofronoff report ready but release delayed by ACT Chief Minister; why?

Posted on July 31, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban It is delivered today, July 31, 2023, but the ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr “currently intends” to release some or all of the Sofronoff inquiry report into the handling of the Brittany Higgins rape allegations against Bruce … Continue reading →

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Comment moderators in conflict with editorial at The Australian?

Posted on June 17, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. Are the gatekeepers of reader comments on The Australian – the moderators –  in ideological conflict with the editors? 

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Fiona Brown and the Lehrmann/Higgins fiasco: no good deed shall go unpunished

Posted on June 10, 2023 by andrew

Yet another front page of The Australian (Weekend, June 10/11, 2023) devoted almost entirely to the disastrous fallout from Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations and subsequent abandoned trial, reveals how staffer Fiona Brown’s good deeds didn’t go unpunished… 

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Bruce Lehrmann was ammunition for war on Morrison

Posted on June 8, 2023 by andrew

Channel 7’s Spotlight (June 4, 2023) interview with Bruce Lehrmann not only gave him a chance to firmly and publicly deny the rape allegations against him by Brittany Higgins, but revealed the plot in which he was the ammunition for … Continue reading →

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Strategising a rape claim

Posted on June 5, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban The public already knew that Bruce Lehrmann denies raping Brittany Higgins in Minister Linda Reynolds’ parliamentary office on March 23, 2019. He confidently confirmed his denial in Channel 7’s Spotlight with Liam Bartlett (Sunday, June 4, 2023). … Continue reading →

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What will Sofronoff KC say? Public hearings end in the Higgins/Lehrmann inquiry

Posted on June 2, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. The last witness on Thursday, June 1, 2023, in the public hearings of the ACT Board of Inquiry chaired by former judge Walter Sofronoff KC was Heidi Yates, the Victims of Crime Commissioner, made famous and recognisable … Continue reading →

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Drumgold gone as DPP

Posted on May 18, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. It didn’t take long. After the first seven days of public hearings at the Board of Inquiry chaired by Walter Sofronoff KC into the handling of the Brittany Higgins allegation of rape against Bruce Lehrmann, its first … Continue reading →

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