In her farewell speech to parliament, WA senator accused Labor of a ‘brutal campaign’, which set off ‘largest political scandal in Australian history’
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The retiring Liberal senator Linda Reynolds has told parliament she had no choice but to sue former staffer Brittany Higgins and her partner, David Sharaz, for defamation, claiming that a “very powerful lie” about an attempted cover-up set in train the “longest and largest political scandal in the nation’s history”.
In her farewell speech to federal parliament on Wednesday night, Reynolds also accused Labor of waging a “brutal” and “deliberate” campaign against her after Higgins’ rape allegation become public in 2021.
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