The Latest Breaking News from Brittany Higgins

Shane Drumgold resigned as director of public prosecutions in August after a board of inquiry, set up by the ACT government, made adverse findings against him.

ACT government also reveals Sofronoff report appeared to present paragraph from Australian newspaper as opinion of NSW supreme court judge

Former defence minister Linda Reynolds has recanted her Supreme Court evidence that she was never told Brittany Higgins had disclosed ‘I remember him on top of me’, and the Labor Party memberships of two Melbourne men were renewed for two years after they died.

If we look at the charred landscape in full we can see our progress in Australia has been remarkable

Australian Jewish Association head David Adler has been slammed for posting ‘grotesque’ and ‘disgusting’ slurs over the colour of journalist Stan Grant’s skin, and a group of former Labor heavies has urged PM Anthony Albanese to push harder to get Julian Assange home before he dies.

Washington’s ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy says it’s possible Julian Assange could get a David Hicks-style plea deal to let him come back to Australia, and Bruce Lehrmann reckons he should get $6 million compensation because he ‘may never work again’.

Leaks like this in the ACT are rare. The way the report came to light became its own story.

Plus: why a small regional Queensland town trended on TikTok over the weekend.

Higgins says police ‘made me feel violated at every turn’ in response to story on Sofronoff inquiry in The Australian