Tottle found Higgins made multiple false or misleading statements in media interviews about the aftermath of her alleged rape, including about having met with police, not being offered in-person counselling and that she was, in fact, given the option to work from the Gold Coast during the 2019 election campaign.<\/p>\n
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The justice wrote that \u201cin [Higgins\u2019] concern to lend credibility to the allegation of a cover-up, the defendant demonstrated such an indifference to the truth that her account of the essential elements of the allegation can only be regarded as dishonest\u201d.<\/p>\n
A vindicated Reynolds, outside court last month, said it was a relief to have her reputation restored.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no political cover-up of rape. It is a great relief that my reputation has been finally and fully vindicated,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, it is disappointing that it took four and a half years, multiple court actions and millions of dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s expected Reynolds\u2019 legal bill will eclipse the damages awarded to her.<\/p>\n
Higgins, in 2022, received a $2.4 million compensation pay-out from the federal government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottle found Higgins made multiple false or misleading statements in media interviews about the aftermath of her alleged…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":212374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-212373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115173446422813092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}