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Reynolds’ claims ‘retraumatising’ Higgins, court told

Tom Rabe
Tom RabeWA political correspondent

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Lawyers for Brittany Higgins say claims she cast former minister Linda Reynolds as a villain in a fairytale are “harassing and retraumatising”, as they opened the defence arguments in the Liberal MP’s defamation case against her former staffer.

The WA Supreme Court also heard Senator Reynolds had a “mountain of information” to deduce that Ms Higgins had been sexually assaulted in the minister’s Parliament House office before when she claims she learned of the alleged rape.

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Tom Rabe is the WA political correspondent, based in Perth. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at tom.rabe@nine.com.au

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