From
Jan Bielicki
What happened in the early hours of March 22, 2019 in the office of the Minister for Defense Industry in the Australian Parliament in Canberra? Was Brittany Higgins, a young employee of the then-ruling Liberal Party, really raped on the office couch by her colleague Bruce Lehrmann? This question has long plagued the continent – and five years after the day in question, the judiciary handed down a verdict in the sensational case for the first time on Monday: “Mr Lehrmann raped Ms Higgins,” judge Michael Lee stated in a federal court in Sydney.