A previous ‘active’ participant on the minister’s couch gets caught in flagrante delicto asleep by security. Way out? Plead victim. Easy. Well, maybe not.
Keep going Bettina. The Opposition has hardly landed a glove on the ‘mean girls’ who stoked this along in the lead-up to the election. Its’s agonising to watch Cash snd Ley pose simple artless questions that go nowhere, while Albanese scuttles off after affirming he supports Gallagher 1000%.
What’s interesting here is that so many women are up in arms about the treatment of someone who should be innocent until proven guilty, quite apart from this shocking evidence of abuse of ministerial powers and the ducking and weaving of the legal system itself. It’s totally unnerving.
I have read up on the latest to emerge from this saga... and I am aghast. I used to have a pretty naive view about those governing us are basically decent people who want the best but make human mistakes etc etc. That's over.
The degree of conspiratorial shenanigans in this matter makes it look like we are governed by a clique of psychopaths - and that their bestest buddies staff the media to boot.
Sadly too the American cultural fetish for seeing a moneymaking opportunity in every purported injury and suing your way to millions has invaded our country.
So convenient, all this stuff surfacing and diverting attention from Gallagher et al. And getting the feminist agenda firmly back on the front page. Just wondering.....
Exactly, Lydia stole the spotlight from the Brittany sage and let the Labour ministers off the hook. Returning again with the hammer at the Liberals. I wonder will she get a bonus/ woops payout for trauma and suffering.
Definitions - FYI. Human rights Vic Government and the Healthy Woman web pages say:
Sexual assault
o Rape or attempted rape:
o Unwanted touching:
o Sexual contact with a minor:
o Incest:
o Indecent exposure:
o Peeping:
o Sexual images/video:
o Sharing sexual content:
o Sexual threats or harassment:
Sexual harassment includes:
• an unwelcome sexual advance
• an unwelcome request for sexual favours
• any other unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature.
Sexual harassment can be physical, verbal or written. Examples include:
• comments about someone’s private life or the way they look
• sexually suggestive behaviour, such as leering or staring
• brushing up against someone, touching, fondling or hugging
• sexually suggestive comments or jokes
• displaying offensive images or objects
• repeated requests to go out
• requests for sex
• sexually explicit emails, text messages or posts on social media
• sexual assault
• suggestive behaviour.
Personally, I'd like to see a national poll to determine who rates some of these as suitable for inclusion in these lists. Certainly, there are a few that I would, but there are more that I wouldn't bother to include. Over my long career, from a young woman working as a bar attendant at 17, to a person now with multiple post graduate degrees, I've always found it useful to say ' bugger-off' when I needed to. I didn't need to tell the world as that always sorted things on-the-spot. I wonder why so many women don't know how to do that.
Great article, credit to Bettina and the other hard working journos , like Janet Albrectson , this shows the value of investigative journalism in keeping pressure on government to act honestly.
The feminists have for years complained that there were not enough WOMEN in politics and positions of power, they insisted that if there were then things would be better, because as we all know women are honest and kind and hard working they would NEVER lie or lower themselves to the gutter style of politics men are known for.
What a disappointment they have been, no better than men and worse in some ways.
The Australian is reporting this morning. Higgins was paid 2.5 million, included was 40 years of lost wages. Now the government has a crystal ball and predict one’s future. How many other females have been paid that amount of money without evidence. Any person claiming permanent disability through their super has to have evidence.
Is this a payback for services rendered ? A suspicious person would say ‘yes’.
Until six weeks ago I was legally blind due to advanced cataracts. When I tried to access my super for the $7000 I needed for surgeries I was blocked at every turn. Had to borrow the money from my sister. Public system would make me wait three years. I couldn't wait. Can't work without vision. Meanwhile the federal govt has several million for a probable false accuser and my state govt has millions for a netball org who aren't even Victorian. Yeah, I'm pissed. The ALP in particular has benefited from my help and time through much of my life. Hell would be too good to them.
Good to see this raised, but if this was the other way round the Liberals would be acting in the same perverse way. NOBODY CARES, other than winning. Stop being naive Australia, learn from the Russians.
You astound me Bettina! We all know that some people (shock horror!) actually can lose their inhibitions when inebriated. Given BH history of sexual appetite and her previous (alleged) work on the Ministers couch, why is my assertion so far-fetched? Sh me have felt snubbed by Lehrmann and in a stupor started fantasying! Lehrmann said he went bck to the office to make notes about meeting Defence types for Linda, and to drink whiskey. Why couldn't a relatively sober (skipping) BH also have raided the Ministers grog cabinet? Reminds me of a good friend I lost. A big strapping fit young man who could "drink most people under the table" but like a lot of people who over-imbibe, a switch would flick and he would lose inhibitions, do bizarre things etc. I have an open mind on BH and others, and I have no doubt more will be revealed...
There was no evidence that he was even in the same room as her. Apparently he went back to get his keys and make some notes before he forgot them. He was only there 40 mins in total. He had only been working there a few weeks. He had a girlfriend to go home to and it was already very late.
She had been working there much longer and they both breached security rules to get in. he got fired for it but she got $3m for it. She doesn't even seem to have had a valid reason to go there. or did I just miss it? Did she plan to sleep on that couch all along? She had had sex with her boyfriend on it previously several times. That night, she was not wearing any underwear all night in a tight white dress. I can imagine a woman taking it off to sleep.
A security guard found her sleeping naked on that couch. BH was going to lose her job. She made up a story and once she did that she could not back down. That is why she did everything she could to avoid the police and have a trial by media. All the way through the whole sorry saga.
As one who forgot his Government Pass the odd time, as long as you can prove who you are AND match the photo in the guard's computer, a temporary pass can be issued...
I had a long-term gf who invariably went out sans-underwear claiming that it felt better. I learnt later that it was so that if she had a quick hookup in a club or bar she didn't involve the hassel of removing them
The house of Cards just keeps collapsing! So many bad, bad things have been/are being exposed to the light. The damage to Pollies, AFP, DPP, PWC etc ad nauseum...Libs need to take inventory on who they have working for them! How rusted-on Labor insides/operatives got key jobs in their inner sanctum bears immediate investigation/remediation. The PWC above-the-law. non-Public Service "rules" for handling employee complaints is also big red flag. Higgins has been shown up as an agenda and politically driven, lying operative. In the back of my mind, a little voice is saying she got the jobs with the Libs as a sleeper agent (pun intended!) from day one. What other damaging info did she pass on before delivering her (possibly contrived) coup de grâce? Also in the back of my mind is the possibility that there is indeed someone in the Big House who may be a sexual predator or opportunist. The most damaging background on the sqeaky-clean Saint Higgins are her sexual proclivities...how many rape victims (allegedly) participate in rough sex a matter of hours/days after being violated? I thought there was also the possibility that Higgins fell asleep after pleasuring herself, and being embarrassed, manufactured a hit-job explanation. Keep up the great work Tina, Sharri, Janet et al. So comforting to know that there people out there who know how to spell integrity...
I had a gf for a couple of years who on more than one occassion would take her dress off at night and walk naked beside me in the street; she liked the thrill of a stranger getting to see her naked. I never did ask her if she ever did it when she was alone
I imagine she just took off her tight white dress to sleep and to save the dress. She just didn't care because she was tipsy she had had sex on it multiple times with her boyfriend previously. She had not been wearing any underwear all night. She just didn't expect to be caught sleeping there by a security guard. Then she realised she was going to lose her job so she had to make up an excuse as to why she was lying there naked.
I think that self-pleasuring idea is far fetched, Mick. Can't imagine any woman doing that in those circumstances. Most likely she just fell asleep - she had had 11 drinks during the evening.
From the very start I felt this was a political stitch-up. BH public behaviors didn't instill a lot of credibility. I learnt the background, not widely publicized details of her from Bettina - the dumped 1st date on the night of alleged rape, what she was and wasn't wearing, the timing of her reporting, etc.
This has done major damage to #MeToo movement, as predicted. But what we're learning now is the extent of collateral damage within the party BH worked for - older, experienced and hard-working women losing their jobs over this, like senior staffer Fiona Brown, who couldn't have done any more for this junior staffer in supporting her.
I'm disgusted to the core with the dirty politics riding on the back of the #MeToo movement, damaging reputations and careers of their own gender. Its backfired enormously and it should have.
Loyalty seems like a dirty word, regardless of gender and party alignment. What have we come too?
The LNP have been great supporters of this feminist narrative. They have pumped millions and millions into this precise believe all women dogma and all the feminist causes that stem from it. They have been stupidly naive to think the majority of the public support it and it has come to bite them. The question is, will they learn?
This is simply delicious! It's been a long time since the media has taken the time to investigate an issue like this and actually attempt to uncover the truth!
And now Lidia Thorpe opens her trap and makes accusations in parliament where she is protected. How can anyone take this nasty, foul mouthed, abusive bully seriously? How many men's lives are going to be destroyed simply so political parties can score points or continue to promote the lie that parliament is a dangerous environment for women?
Some of the women involved have been linked to the bullying of a woman who recently died and whose husband claims the vicious bullying contributed to her poor health and stress.
The hypocrisy and deceit from the ALP and media is truly vomit inducing..
Frankly Nicole the Canberra Security Guard her calm non biased her attention to detail as she walked us through those early morning hours to her relief that at 10am Brittany finally roused her naked body off the couch I knew the duck was not walking like a duck but had not a clue aboubt the diabolical vicious false flag to come .I think of the players as the Dingos.
It would seem DV is the new Brittany Higgins. The next election campaign?
A previous ‘active’ participant on the minister’s couch gets caught in flagrante delicto asleep by security. Way out? Plead victim. Easy. Well, maybe not.
Just goes to show if you repeat a lie enough as is ubiquitous in the media - the masses will believe it. Great article Bettina.
Keep going Bettina. The Opposition has hardly landed a glove on the ‘mean girls’ who stoked this along in the lead-up to the election. Its’s agonising to watch Cash snd Ley pose simple artless questions that go nowhere, while Albanese scuttles off after affirming he supports Gallagher 1000%.
What’s interesting here is that so many women are up in arms about the treatment of someone who should be innocent until proven guilty, quite apart from this shocking evidence of abuse of ministerial powers and the ducking and weaving of the legal system itself. It’s totally unnerving.
I have read up on the latest to emerge from this saga... and I am aghast. I used to have a pretty naive view about those governing us are basically decent people who want the best but make human mistakes etc etc. That's over.
The degree of conspiratorial shenanigans in this matter makes it look like we are governed by a clique of psychopaths - and that their bestest buddies staff the media to boot.
Sadly too the American cultural fetish for seeing a moneymaking opportunity in every purported injury and suing your way to millions has invaded our country.
So convenient, all this stuff surfacing and diverting attention from Gallagher et al. And getting the feminist agenda firmly back on the front page. Just wondering.....
Exactly, Lydia stole the spotlight from the Brittany sage and let the Labour ministers off the hook. Returning again with the hammer at the Liberals. I wonder will she get a bonus/ woops payout for trauma and suffering.
Definitions - FYI. Human rights Vic Government and the Healthy Woman web pages say:
Sexual assault
o Rape or attempted rape:
o Unwanted touching:
o Sexual contact with a minor:
o Incest:
o Indecent exposure:
o Peeping:
o Sexual images/video:
o Sharing sexual content:
o Sexual threats or harassment:
Sexual harassment includes:
• an unwelcome sexual advance
• an unwelcome request for sexual favours
• any other unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature.
Sexual harassment can be physical, verbal or written. Examples include:
• comments about someone’s private life or the way they look
• sexually suggestive behaviour, such as leering or staring
• brushing up against someone, touching, fondling or hugging
• sexually suggestive comments or jokes
• displaying offensive images or objects
• repeated requests to go out
• requests for sex
• sexually explicit emails, text messages or posts on social media
• sexual assault
• suggestive behaviour.
Personally, I'd like to see a national poll to determine who rates some of these as suitable for inclusion in these lists. Certainly, there are a few that I would, but there are more that I wouldn't bother to include. Over my long career, from a young woman working as a bar attendant at 17, to a person now with multiple post graduate degrees, I've always found it useful to say ' bugger-off' when I needed to. I didn't need to tell the world as that always sorted things on-the-spot. I wonder why so many women don't know how to do that.
The "instructions" tell everyone to be a silent piece of apparatus. You are not a human being. Be a cog.
Great article, credit to Bettina and the other hard working journos , like Janet Albrectson , this shows the value of investigative journalism in keeping pressure on government to act honestly.
The feminists have for years complained that there were not enough WOMEN in politics and positions of power, they insisted that if there were then things would be better, because as we all know women are honest and kind and hard working they would NEVER lie or lower themselves to the gutter style of politics men are known for.
What a disappointment they have been, no better than men and worse in some ways.
The Australian is reporting this morning. Higgins was paid 2.5 million, included was 40 years of lost wages. Now the government has a crystal ball and predict one’s future. How many other females have been paid that amount of money without evidence. Any person claiming permanent disability through their super has to have evidence.
Is this a payback for services rendered ? A suspicious person would say ‘yes’.
Until six weeks ago I was legally blind due to advanced cataracts. When I tried to access my super for the $7000 I needed for surgeries I was blocked at every turn. Had to borrow the money from my sister. Public system would make me wait three years. I couldn't wait. Can't work without vision. Meanwhile the federal govt has several million for a probable false accuser and my state govt has millions for a netball org who aren't even Victorian. Yeah, I'm pissed. The ALP in particular has benefited from my help and time through much of my life. Hell would be too good to them.
NO, the Oz reported that was what Higgins claimed - not what she was given!
Now the barking mad Lidia Thorpe has accused another Senator of sexual assault.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2023/jun/14/auastralia-politics-live-nsw-indigenous-voice-referendum-linda-burney-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-question-time-brittany-higgins-katy-gallagher-linda-reynolds-tanya-plibersek
What, the Senator looked at her the "wrong way"?
Please listen to Alan Jones - recorded last night on ADH TV - thundering about the Higgins saga. Great stuff from this veteran commentator.
https://watch.adh.tv/alan-jones-full-shows/season:3/videos/michaelia-cash-tuesday-14-june-2023
Good to see this raised, but if this was the other way round the Liberals would be acting in the same perverse way. NOBODY CARES, other than winning. Stop being naive Australia, learn from the Russians.
You astound me Bettina! We all know that some people (shock horror!) actually can lose their inhibitions when inebriated. Given BH history of sexual appetite and her previous (alleged) work on the Ministers couch, why is my assertion so far-fetched? Sh me have felt snubbed by Lehrmann and in a stupor started fantasying! Lehrmann said he went bck to the office to make notes about meeting Defence types for Linda, and to drink whiskey. Why couldn't a relatively sober (skipping) BH also have raided the Ministers grog cabinet? Reminds me of a good friend I lost. A big strapping fit young man who could "drink most people under the table" but like a lot of people who over-imbibe, a switch would flick and he would lose inhibitions, do bizarre things etc. I have an open mind on BH and others, and I have no doubt more will be revealed...
There was no evidence that he was even in the same room as her. Apparently he went back to get his keys and make some notes before he forgot them. He was only there 40 mins in total. He had only been working there a few weeks. He had a girlfriend to go home to and it was already very late.
She had been working there much longer and they both breached security rules to get in. he got fired for it but she got $3m for it. She doesn't even seem to have had a valid reason to go there. or did I just miss it? Did she plan to sleep on that couch all along? She had had sex with her boyfriend on it previously several times. That night, she was not wearing any underwear all night in a tight white dress. I can imagine a woman taking it off to sleep.
A security guard found her sleeping naked on that couch. BH was going to lose her job. She made up a story and once she did that she could not back down. That is why she did everything she could to avoid the police and have a trial by media. All the way through the whole sorry saga.
As one who forgot his Government Pass the odd time, as long as you can prove who you are AND match the photo in the guard's computer, a temporary pass can be issued...
Seems a far more logical story, Dave, than what the leftist media would have us believe.
I had a long-term gf who invariably went out sans-underwear claiming that it felt better. I learnt later that it was so that if she had a quick hookup in a club or bar she didn't involve the hassel of removing them
You are male, Mick. Women tend to behave very differently re masturbation. I did my Masters thesis on the subject so I do know something about it!!
The house of Cards just keeps collapsing! So many bad, bad things have been/are being exposed to the light. The damage to Pollies, AFP, DPP, PWC etc ad nauseum...Libs need to take inventory on who they have working for them! How rusted-on Labor insides/operatives got key jobs in their inner sanctum bears immediate investigation/remediation. The PWC above-the-law. non-Public Service "rules" for handling employee complaints is also big red flag. Higgins has been shown up as an agenda and politically driven, lying operative. In the back of my mind, a little voice is saying she got the jobs with the Libs as a sleeper agent (pun intended!) from day one. What other damaging info did she pass on before delivering her (possibly contrived) coup de grâce? Also in the back of my mind is the possibility that there is indeed someone in the Big House who may be a sexual predator or opportunist. The most damaging background on the sqeaky-clean Saint Higgins are her sexual proclivities...how many rape victims (allegedly) participate in rough sex a matter of hours/days after being violated? I thought there was also the possibility that Higgins fell asleep after pleasuring herself, and being embarrassed, manufactured a hit-job explanation. Keep up the great work Tina, Sharri, Janet et al. So comforting to know that there people out there who know how to spell integrity...
I had a gf for a couple of years who on more than one occassion would take her dress off at night and walk naked beside me in the street; she liked the thrill of a stranger getting to see her naked. I never did ask her if she ever did it when she was alone
I imagine she just took off her tight white dress to sleep and to save the dress. She just didn't care because she was tipsy she had had sex on it multiple times with her boyfriend previously. She had not been wearing any underwear all night. She just didn't expect to be caught sleeping there by a security guard. Then she realised she was going to lose her job so she had to make up an excuse as to why she was lying there naked.
I think that self-pleasuring idea is far fetched, Mick. Can't imagine any woman doing that in those circumstances. Most likely she just fell asleep - she had had 11 drinks during the evening.
From the very start I felt this was a political stitch-up. BH public behaviors didn't instill a lot of credibility. I learnt the background, not widely publicized details of her from Bettina - the dumped 1st date on the night of alleged rape, what she was and wasn't wearing, the timing of her reporting, etc.
This has done major damage to #MeToo movement, as predicted. But what we're learning now is the extent of collateral damage within the party BH worked for - older, experienced and hard-working women losing their jobs over this, like senior staffer Fiona Brown, who couldn't have done any more for this junior staffer in supporting her.
I'm disgusted to the core with the dirty politics riding on the back of the #MeToo movement, damaging reputations and careers of their own gender. Its backfired enormously and it should have.
Loyalty seems like a dirty word, regardless of gender and party alignment. What have we come too?
The LNP have been great supporters of this feminist narrative. They have pumped millions and millions into this precise believe all women dogma and all the feminist causes that stem from it. They have been stupidly naive to think the majority of the public support it and it has come to bite them. The question is, will they learn?
This is simply delicious! It's been a long time since the media has taken the time to investigate an issue like this and actually attempt to uncover the truth!
It is very telling watching the various media outlets and seeing who is still ducking and weaving rather than looking at the glaring facts emerging.
And now Lidia Thorpe opens her trap and makes accusations in parliament where she is protected. How can anyone take this nasty, foul mouthed, abusive bully seriously? How many men's lives are going to be destroyed simply so political parties can score points or continue to promote the lie that parliament is a dangerous environment for women?
Some of the women involved have been linked to the bullying of a woman who recently died and whose husband claims the vicious bullying contributed to her poor health and stress.
The hypocrisy and deceit from the ALP and media is truly vomit inducing..
Frankly Nicole the Canberra Security Guard her calm non biased her attention to detail as she walked us through those early morning hours to her relief that at 10am Brittany finally roused her naked body off the couch I knew the duck was not walking like a duck but had not a clue aboubt the diabolical vicious false flag to come .I think of the players as the Dingos.