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Linda Reynolds vs Brittany Higgins: Day 11: Senator’s legal team takes aim at journalist who wrote fundraiser


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Linda Reynolds vs Brittany Higgins: Day 11: Senator’s legal team takes aim at journalist who wrote fundraiser

Linda Reynolds’ legal team is trying to get hold of any correspondence between a Walkley Award-winning journalist and Brittany Higgins over a fundraiser they say relates to its claim of aggravated damages.

The outgoing Senator’s lead counsel Martin Bennett told his clients’ high-stake defamation trial against her former junior media adviser on Friday that Nina Funnell established and wrote the Chuffed page #StandWithBrittanyHiggins that has so far garnered more than $51,000.

It went live on August 5, the day Senator Reynolds began testifying, calling for support for Ms Higgins, saying “Brittany, who is pregnant, needs our support now more than ever.”

“This fundraiser is to provide additional support for Brittany Higgins’ ongoing medical, counselling and legal costs,” the page reads.

It was published by Saxon Mullins, a ******* ******** survivor advocate, and now the Director of Advocacy at an organisation called ***** and ******* ******** Research and Advocacy.

Camera IconJournalist and founder of the #LetHerSpeak campaign Nina Funnell with ******* ******** survivor Grace Tame in 2021. Credit:

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Supreme Court of WA Justice Paul Tottle suggested it was a peripheral issue but Mr Bennett argued that he should see any communications between Ms Funnell, Ms Brittany, her husband David Sharaz and her lawyer Carmel Galati.

data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==Camera IconA post on X by Nina Funnell on Friday. @ninafunnell Credit: @ninafunnell/X (Formerly

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He also pointed to Ms Funnell’s post on social media on Friday morning, which is day 11 of the epic legal battle in Perth.

The X post links to another Chuffed fundraiser, this time for Ms Mullens.

“BREAKING: Linda Reynolds’ lawyer is trying to pull Saxon Mullins into court. Saxon has nothing to hide, but has had to engage her own lawyers at her own cost – all for launching a fundraiser for a fellow survivor. So now it’s my turn to help Saxon!” it reads.

Mr Bennett said, however, that his team accepted Ms Mullens did not have contact with Ms Higgins’ legal team and did not need to attend court.

Justice Tottle is considering the matter.

data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==Camera IconLinda Reynolds arriving at court with her lawyer Martin Bennett at an earlier hearing. Credit: Justin Benson-Cooper/The West ***********

Earlier, Senator Reynolds’ Tasmanian colleague Wendy Askew, the chief opposition whip in the Senate, took the stand via videolink, testifying that Ms Higgins’ alleged ***** left the 59-year-old unable perform in Parliament and forced to take leave, especially in 2021 when news of it broke.

“She’s had times where she’s said ‘I can’t do it. I can’t get through the day’,” Senator Askew said.

She touched on how the controversy, whereby Senator Reynolds was criticised for her handling of Ms Higgins’ complaint, played out in parliament.

“Even the mannerisms across the chamber were just heartless,” Senator Askew said.

“She was unwell for a while and ongoing … she was certainly very distressed about the situation.”

The defamation claim is based on social media posts placed online in 2022 and 2023 that the former minister says damaged her reputation.

But much of the evidence heard so far has dated back further than that, based on claims by the Senator’s legal team that those posts were part of a plan years earlier by Ms Higgins and Mr Sharaz to harm her ex-boss and the Government.

Retired ******** MP Steve Irons then briefly took the stand, describing how Ms Higgins was “friendly, personable, always good natured” when he saw her at ******** booths for pre-election campaigning.

Mr Irons was asked if he saw her working the Belmont booths late at night and whether that had been raised as a safety issue, but said he had “no recollection of that at all”.

The trial continues.



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