"Disobedience in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It's through disobedience that progress has been made." Oscar Wilde
THREAD: 🧵 Linda Reynolds statements to the AFP and Supreme Court.
I have been carefully researching the statements Linda Reynolds made to the AFP in June 2021, and in her testimony as a witness at the ACT Supreme Court. This thread is about the veracity of those statements.
For anyone who has followed me for years you are probably wondering why I have been so quiet of late. To be honest I literally have no words. I am just absolutely gobsmacked at all the bullshit, hubris and disdain for human life and the plight of ordinary Australians.
We just watched the Prime Minister tell the entire country that he didn't think a well documented and credible allegation of a serious, brutal rape, allegedly perpetrated by one of his most senior ministers was serious enough to stand the minister aside, while it's investigated.
Fantastic News!! Justice Michael Lee just ruled that Fiona Brown will need to attend court in person after Lisa Wilkinson gives evidence tmrw.
#Lehrmann
#Higgins
#Defamation
#auspol
THREAD: Australia has a major problem with right wing Christian political influence. It's been bubbling away since John Howard was PM, with power brokers like Bruce Baird wielding their influence over the Liberal Party, hand picking the likes of Scott Morrison, and Stuart Robert.
Q: How big does a story that broke on Twitter have to get before the MSM pick on it up? My thread on Linda Reynolds forced her to recant her evidence at the ACT Supreme Court trial R v Lehrmann yet apart from the article in not one other media outlet has
So our good friend
@RonniSalt
and I have been privately discussing possible outcomes for this defamation case ever since the public hearings ended in December. Ronni has always maintained this would be the outcome and once again she has been proven to have an impeccable record
The utter contempt and corruption being revealed about the AFP’s handling of the Bruce Lehrmann investigation and the Senate estimates inquiry into their relationship with PwC should concern every decent Australian. There are more than enough grounds to now justify a royal
AFP says it’s now “not correct” that Peter Dutton was informed about a bribery suspect under investigation.
But they can’t say when they realised they got it wrong. 😳 Meanwhile AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw insists he’s Not failed to fulfil his obligations to the
#Senate
I found out today many Liberal and National Party MP's have had their office NBN services upgraded (at cost) to Fibre to the Premises (FTTP). Turns out the NBN we all get to use is not good enough for MP's to use, and they really prefer the original Labor model.
#NBN
@joshgnosis
Has anyone else noticed that more and more people speaking out about corruption in Australia are getting either getting sued for defamation, or being arrested and charged? Witness K, Bernard Collaery, Richard Boyle, Kristo Langker, Annika Smethurst, Shane Dowling, Michael West.
Imagine living in a country where the Australian media have fallen over themselves for 5 years, and gone to depraved lengths to secure all the most salacious elements of the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins on March 23, 2019.
Yet when evidence presents itself like the diary
Most members of the NSW cabinet wanted to bring back Public Health measures including masks and check-ins much sooner. As did Dr Chant and
@NSWHealth
. But it's now being reported by multiple sources that
@Dom_Perrottet
wouldn't budge. The NSW Omicron outbreak is all on his head!
For all those people who said there was no cover up of a rape in parliament house on the 23rd of March 2019, then just look at how many MP’s, including the PM, Ministers, public servants and other staff who covered up, and lied about
#Robodebt
for years.
Politics always trumped
If anyone needed confirmation that Australia has truly lost it's way as a generous country, of peaceful people then this is it.
@SenatorWong
@AlboMP
Showing the world what a sycophantic US foreign policy looks like.
First the Voice and now this. My father and his generation did
Watching the live stream today in the Lehrmann defamation trial, all the issues with Fiona Brown giving evidence, her updated affidavit, mental health issues, requests to cut the live stream etc etc are not helping to challenge the belief there was in fact a conspiracy to cover
A Hillsong family were just aired on ABC 7pm News in their story about impacts of Easter lockdown. The normalisation of Pentecostal Christian messaging is complete. Repent now all you atheists and non believers or
@ScottMorrisonMP
will increase the programming on public media.
So it turns out that both
@PaulFletcherMP
@GregHuntMP
were at the 1988 debating championship with Christian Porter and the now deceased Katharine Thornton. So the $64m dollar question is why neither of them have declared this before now?? Would love to hear what they have to say?
Has anyone seen Stuart Robert, Alan Tudge, Christian Porter, Linda Reynolds, Marise Payne, Angus Taylor, Michaela Cash, or Alex Hawk? They seem to have gone missing in action
#MIA
#AWOL
#auspol
#ausvotes
FUCK!! What a week in Australian politics!!
And I know of at least two more MASSIVE stories which are going to break shortly. So take a deep breath people while you can.
#auspol
Has anyone else noticed these men have gone very, very silent after the news broke
@4corners
have a witness on camera who was told by the victim about the alleged rape on the night it occurred in 1988?
@vanOnselenP
@d_hardaker
@BarnsGreg
This just gets murkier.
@KarenMMiddleton
reports today that the NSW Police did not obtain or clarify all the evidence before closing the case. The anonymous letter names 13 friends and provides their contact details yet the police failed to contact them.
Q: If major social media platforms like
@Twitter
and
@Facebook
have found Tim and Jesse Stewart's Qanon posts unacceptable, how can the Australian media continue to ignore the close friendship our PM
@ScottMorrisonMP
has with Tim Stewart and his wife?
@vanOnselenP
@PatsKarvelas
IMPORTANT: Do not listen to politicians for medical advice relating to the pandemic. Listen to experts like Professor Marylouise McLaws who just told
@abcnews
the new vaccination strategy of stretching doses out to give more people at least one shot is deeply flawed.
#covidnsw
Justice Lee quips that if he finds in favour of the application by Network Ten then he may judge that Mr Lehrmann receive damages amounting to the reputation he deserves!!
#Lehrmann
That is pure GOLD😂😂😂
Shane Dowling does make a very good point in his article.
If Linda Reynolds now openly admits she already knew before the 1st of April meeting with Brittany Higgins and Fiona Brown, that by the end of the previous week they both had concerns that a sexual assault might have
@nyunggai
I read you opinion piece today. I read it carefully and with an open mind. I then looked at your Linkedin Profile and saw the long employment history you have had, and the many boards you have sat on. I then checked those organisations to see how much money in Federal
Morning friends, well my house and property got completely flooded yesterday and we had to evacuate by swimming 400m to the road with my two dogs in 1.2m of water. Have pretty much lost everything except my laptop and phone. Hope everyone else is safe?
#floods
#midnorthcoast
Specifically my research has focused on Linda Reynold's statements about her knowledge of the details of the incident at Parliament House on March 23rd, 2019 involving Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins, prior to April 1 2019.
Asked by Drumgold in the same criminal trial if she had conveyed that information to Ms Reynolds prior to the April 1 meeting with Brittany Higgins, Fiona Brown replied:
“Yes.”
This emphatic response by Fiona Brown was also reported in the AFR article below.
THREAD: COVID-19 Testing in NSW
Before I start I want to say that I fully support and admire all the amazing health workers, pathologists, lab assistants, couriers, police, health professionals and everyone else who have been working so hard to protect the NSW Community.
WOW!! Louise Adler is not pulling any punches on
@abc730
detailing the history of Israeli interference in the Australian Arts sector over 30 years!
It’s an absolute must watch!
In her evidence at the same trial, Fiona Brown testified she'd informed Ms Reynolds *before* their meeting on April 1, 2019 that Brittany Higgins had told her she remembered waking up and Bruce Lehrmann being on top of her. “And I said, ‘Oh. Oh my god', ” Ms Brown told the court.
How has Scott Morrison survived any real accountability over his entire career for any of his dodgy acts? From his role in the pre-selection for Cook, to his sacking by Tourism Australia, the coverup of the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins and now this latest scandal?
#auspol
So here we have Simon (absolutely no shame) Benson, writing his own summary of the
#RoboDebt
Royal Commission report. Yet somehow he miraculously forgot to mention the role he played in leaking clients details to shame them as part of the media strategy Alan Tudge deployed.
During the Supreme Court criminal trial, Linda Reynolds said she first learned from her chief of staff Fiona Brown on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 that there had been a "security incident" in her office and that she was “shocked” by the revelation.
AFP’s Ian McCartney crunched by David Shoebridge after a court finds AFP was involved in the radicalisation of a 13yr old autistic boy.
DS “it was the AFP who rcmended he become a sniper & suicide bomber!”
IM “that was not our intent”
DS “it’s what u did!”💥
Credit: The Guardian
DID EVERYONE SEE THIS?
#sportsrorts
"Senator McKenzie will not go quietly and could implicate the Prime Minister's office which reportedly passed on to her office requests for funds from Liberal MPs trying to save their seats."
Requests from Liberals hey, mmmmm
Next time you hear the LNP rabbit on about why they won't increase Newstart, remember the Angus Taylor and his family have received over $98m from various State and Federal Government sources since 2010.
#AngusGate
#auspol
All the recent right wing comments and attacks including those by Tim Smith, Barnaby Joyce, Craig Kelly, Andrew Bolt and their ilk, look to me like they are being coordinated and for a larger purpose other than just political opportunism. They are operating like a terror cell.
Sorry to be so gloomy, but I have a really bad feeling about the emerging COVID situation in NSW. My instincts are telling me it's really close to taking off here. Stay safe everyone. Wear a mask, and stay isolated, and at home as much as you can.
#auspol
#covid19
When asked at the trial what Fiona Brown had told her over several subsequent conversations, Linda Reynolds recalled that Fiona Brown had said: "Brittany Higgins couldn’t remember what happened but Ms Brown became concerned by Ms Higgins’ demeanour, because she was getting upset”
So after 8 years on Twitter as an anonymous user I have decided to 'come out' and use my real name. Sincere thanks to the handful of trusted friends (you know who are) who have kept my real identity safe and secure during that entire time.
#auspol
Just watched the excellent new movie called 'VICE' how Dick Cheney masterminded a right-wing revolution. His statement in the movie about keeping wages low so "people are too busy trying to pay their bills" to worry about the erosion of their democracy is all too real.
#auspol
According to this article by
@samanthamaiden
on Feb 18th, 2023, Linda Reynolds has already denied under oath in the Supreme Court trial, and in Parliament that Fiona Brown told her what Brittany disclosed prior to the meeting on April 1.
ABC: What are the Gov't going to do about George Christensen spreading misinformation?
@JoshFrydenberg
Well George is a good local member...blah blah blah
#auspol
Linda Reynolds testified at the same trial that she was informed there had been a security breach and: “two staff had come into my ministerial office after hours”.
Well this is going to be interesting. Yet another defamation trial relating to the case of a young liberal female staff member who was raped in Senator Reynolds office on the night of Sat 23rd of March, 2019 by Bruce Lehrmann.
#Reynolds
You would think
During the criminal trial ACT Prosecutor Shane Drumgold questioned Linda Reynolds as a witness, and specifically asked Linda Reynolds about what Fiona Brown had told her prior to April 1.
I remember telling some good friends on here recently that when Morrison falls, he will fall hard. I really think this is that moment. Nobody in Australia believes that he didn't know before now. Nobody.
#BrittanyHiggins
#auspol
New Zealand is on track to eliminate COVID-19 again, proving that even outbreaks of the delta variant can be suppressed if the political will to do it exists.
Quoting from this article "Ms Brown also told the Supreme Court that she informed Senator Reynolds what Ms Higgins had said before their April 1 meeting with Ms Higgins in her ministerial suite.
"Ms Reynolds has denied this under oath and in parliament."
What a difference a state makes. S.A. POLICE Commissioner praises protestors for one of the best organised and peaceful rallies he is ever seen. No threats, no riot squad goons just respect.
#blacklivesmatteraustralia
As Dr Kerry Chant gives her daily COVID-19 summary for NSW and details the 15 deaths in the last 24 hours I can't help but think how normalised death by covid has become and how immune we are becoming to reacting to it. 15 fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, friends, partners.
Here is an extract of the written statement Linda Reynolds made to the AFP in June 2021 (more than two years after the incident which is interesting in itself).
NOTE: DPS is the Department of Parliamentary Services.
Good on you
@vanOnselenP
What kind of a message is the Chief Medical Officer sending to Australians when he walks into a TV studio and shakes hands with everybody during a Global Pandemic? Seriously he should be sacked.
#COVID19Aus
#insiders
Who else thinks the actual NSW covid case numbers are far higher than are currently being reported? Possibly due to testing/pathology capacity, people not wanting to isolate over Xmas?? or something else?
#Hospitalisations
#Omicron
#COVID19nsw
Here you go MSM, i'll give you a free helping hand.
Q: Has Linda Reynolds actually legally recanted which I found out requires lodging an affidavit with the ACT Supreme Court?
In Linda Reynolds Senate statement, on Feb 18th , 2021 there is absolutely no mention of the numerous conversations she had with Fiona Brown between Tuesday the 26th March 2019 and Friday 29th March 2019.
For everyone who gives a shit,
I am not giving up.
I am not going away.
We can't let the Australian equivalent,
of the 'Stazi' to set up shop here.
We need each other, seriously,
And we have to fight this shit.
If you give up. they win.
Are you in?
#auspol
@liammendes
Hey
@liammendes
didn't see you or your News Ltd colleagues doing this to Scott Morrison, Linda Reynolds, Phil Gaetjens or Michaela Cash back in 2021 as news broke of the reported rape inside parliament house.
Linda Reynolds goes on to tell the AFP that by April 1, 2019 she was not aware of any other incident other than the unauthorised access of her Ministerial office had taken place. Remember this is a written statement provided nearly two years after the incident on March 23, 2019
The world is in meltdown. The US President is a lying, sociopath, The UK Prime Minister is a criminal who is attempting to bypass democracy, the Hong Kong Governor has stared a civil war so China can take over Hong Kong, & the Australian Gov't are fascists who support all of it.
AFP Agent Katie Thelning just gave evidence in the Lerhmann v Ten/Wilkinson defamation trial in the Federal Court that her and her colleague Rebecca Cleaves discussed the report of an alleged sexual assault at parliament House at 9:15am on Monday April 1, 2019 before they met
However Fiona Brown testified at the Supreme Court criminal trial, that she had told Linda Reynolds what Brittany Higgins had said. Fiona Brown said in her evidence that Linda Reynolds rang her and told her go to the police to make a report.
"In particular, journalists pointed to 7.30 host Sarah Ferguson’s interviews with pro-Israel voices and argued many of their claims were unchallenged unlike interviews with pro-Palestinian voices"
Hello
@abcnews
we have been saying this for weeks!!
Did anyone else just watch the discussion on pill testing on
@abcnews
a few minutes ago? Paul Kennedy just nailed Gary Christian who was representing Drug Free Australia, exposing their hidden Christian agenda with 4 of the 6 committee members representing christian organisations
When Morrison won the March 2019 election I was deeply depressed for weeks. Since then they have normalised corruption, cruelty, pork barrelling, lying, misogyny, racism and bigotry, and now they are normalising death. Everything I feared and more has come to pass.
#COVID19Aus
Here are some other quotes from the same article.
"The loyal public servant was willing to put her career on the line, and refuse a minister’s direction, rather than report a rape to the police without permission from Brittany Higgins."
Glad you agree with this Warren
@nyunggai
Let's start with all the organisations that you have had an association with, either as a former director or board member.
#auspol
OK I am going to put this thought out there for everyone to consider. Was Dr Kerry Chant’s advice to NSW Health cabinet on July 10th overruled because Morrison convinced Gladys to let the outbreak expand to motivate more Az vaccinations?
#covidsydney
"So we had four politicians locked in a room with no public servants awarding a grant to a company that was ineligible that had just made a curious donation to the Liberal National party during the assessment process, and there’s no records?”
#GrantRorts
In the same statement to the AFP on June 2021, Linda Reynolds confirms the numerous conversations she had with her chief of staff, Fiona Brown between March 25th and March 29th, 2019.
However after an extensive search of parliamentary Hansard the only relevant Hansard that can be found is a copy of the statement Linda Reynolds made to the Senate on Feb 18th, 2021 A copy of that statement is below together with a SMH article reporting on it.
Here we go
#auspol
@InsidersABC
panel all in agreement nothing should be done about the alleged
#CabinetRapist
until the police investigate the matter further. I am turning
#insiders
off..Watching Phil Coorey talking about the rights of women is just too much.
#CabinetMinister
Drinking in the office after hours is not a police matter, it’s an internal HR matter. So if, as Ms Reynolds claims, she knew nothing at all before Mon April 1 of any allegation of a sexual nature, why then in the week before was she advising Brittany to “go to the police”?
The letter from Lauren Barons to Fiona Brown on Friday the 29th, March also corroborates Fiona Brown's evidence that she was concerned at that point the incident was a possible sexual assault.
@RonniSalt
It's a sad day. One of the most heartfelt, passionate and effective twitter accounts ever is leaving us. This place will not be the same without your voice.
Thank you for everything you did and do Ronni Salt x
In an interview with the Australian's Janet Albrechtsen, Fiona Brown claimed that was untenable: “Am I supposed to go and accuse a young man of a criminal offence without the female telling me she was raped?”
SOURCE:
Just heard from a very reliable source that Peter Dutton is holding a range of 'Culture War' meetings with various women's rights groups and anti-trans activists. Can you imagine what the next election campaign is going to be like?
There needs to be a Royal Commission into the NSW Police Force covering everything from strip searching teenagers, the use of sniffer dogs, political decisions like the Angus Taylor investigation and the racial profiling of indigenous Australians and deaths in custody.
#insiders
Regarding the ACT Supreme Court decision today is an unreported fact. Bruce Lehrmann attended 'Churchies' in years 11/12. Walter Sofronoff was also a 'Churchies' old boy.
This is something I hope the
@NACCgovau
include in their investigation into the Brittany Higgins case.
Just went to the bottle shop to grab some Peroni beers after a long, intense day I needed one. Got talking with the owner about ICAC and she says "Gladys is not corrupt because she fell for the wrong guy".
This is what we are up against. Complete ignorance.
#GladysMustGo