Brittany Higgins says she feels she can ‘breathe again’ after Bruce Lehrmann defamation appeal dismissed

Former political staffer says Lehrmann’s extended defamation action against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson was ‘retraumatising’

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Brittany Higgins says she feels she can “breathe again” after Bruce Lehrmann lost his high-profile appeal against a defamation decision that found he raped her.

The disgraced former Liberal staffer had sued Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson for defamation over an interview with Brittany Higgins on The Project in 2021 in which she claimed she had been raped.

Brittany Higgins says she feels she can ‘breathe again’ after Bruce Lehrmann defamation appeal dismissed

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