What a win for the former Defence Minister Linda Reynolds, after a year long wait, the Western Australian Supreme Court ruled in favour of Linda Reynolds. The social media posts by both Brittany Higgins and David Sharaz were misleading and untrue, and now they are being held accountable.

During the Bruce Lehermann defamation trial, Justice Michael Lee found no evidence of a cover up by Linda Reynolds or Scott Morrisson and the Liberal Party. Lisa Wilkinson in pursuit of her Gold Logie straight out stated Linda Reynolds was lying and Brittany Higgins was telling the truth. Justice Michael Lee found both Bruce Lehermann and Brittany Higgins lied under oath, with one being more believable. Sure, Bruce Lehermann is appealing the Justice Michael Lee decision, I suspect this appeal will fail.

The Western Australian Supreme Court Justice Paul Tottle found after a year of deliberation that Linda Reynolds had indeed been defamed by Brittany Higgins and awarded $315,000 in damages and $26,000 in interest to be paid by Brittany Higgins. Brittany Higgins’ interviews with Samantha Maiden from The Australian and Lisa Wilkinson from The Project were “objectively untrue and misleading” according to Justice Michael Lee. Then there will be legal costs that look like that will be paid by Brittany Higgins, they appear to be in the vicinity of around $1 million.

What I have learned is former Chief of Staff Fiona Brown is not lodging defamation action against Brittany Higgins, Lisa Wilkinson or Samantha Maiden. Instead Fiona Brown has lodged a claim against the Commonwealth of Australia for breaching the Fair Work Act. The commonwealth came to an extraordinary quick decision to award $2.4 million in favour of Brittany Higgins,but appears to be manifestly slower to award damages to Fiona Brown.

What has to happen in what will now be the final action of this sorry saga is Fiona Brown has to be compensated by the Commonwealth of Australia, how this plays out is uncertain but I guess the Albanese Government will come out of this poorly. It would appear they are stringing this out, so this will be another televised trial that will unearth some extraordinary missteps by Gallagher, Wong and Albanese that will damage the current government.

This trail will be compelling viewing, we will find out how Finance Minister Katy Gallagher, Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese weaponised a rape for purely political purposes. This was aided by Brittany Higgins’ now husband David Sharaz through his connections with Katy Gallagher. When this case goes to the Federal Court, we will see this case untangled just as we witnessed with the Bruce Lehermann defamation trial and the Linda Reynolds defamation trial.