Brittany Higgins’ story first erupted on to the national political stage on the morning of February 15, 2021, in reporting by news.com.au’s national political editor Samantha Maiden, before Higgins appeared on Channel 10’s The Project that night.
That first story said Higgins had alleged she was “raped at Parliament House in Defence Minister Linda Reynolds’ ministerial office by a colleague, and claims she felt forced to choose between reporting it to the police or keeping her job”.
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