Reynolds sues Higgins: Reynolds branding Higgins 'lying cow' unfortunate, but defensible: lawyer
Linda Reynolds’ lawyer says the remarks reflected the senator’s ‘intense anger’ over Brittany Higgins’ claims on The Project, arguing the transcript ‘unmistakably’ shows a plot to conceive a political sex scandal.
Welcome to The Australian's rolling coverage of Linda Reynolds' courtroom showdown with her former staffer Brittany Higgins.
Swings and misses: party’s polling debacle
In the Liberals’ war room in Brisbane, the catastrophic reality dawned early in the May 3 count. Recriminations began over internal polling. Funding could have been better directed. Defeated MP Luke Howarth shares his ‘what went wrong’.
Ousted Libs count cost of campaign clangers
As Sussan Ley works to patch up a splintered Coalition, the Liberal Party has finally laid bare the mistakes that led Peter Dutton to lose his own seat and more than a dozen others.