Mr Dutton said he was briefed by the AFP about the alleged incident involving Ms Higgins. “Brittany re-engaged with the Australian Federal Police on about the 5ᵗʰ February and I was informed by the Australian Federal Police Commissioner on the 11ᵗʰ of February,” Mr Dutton said. He later explained to the Today show’s Karl Stefanovic how it unfolded. It was only when the media approached the Prime Minister’s office on February 12, a day later, that Mr Dutton said he asked his chief of staff to tell the PMO that the AFP had been in contact.
Mr Dutton told Parliament in 2021 that he initially kept this information confidential when he was informed by the AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw on February 11. The reason was that under sensitive investigation protocols the AFP decided to inform him after Ms Higgins re-engaged with police on February 5, before the story broke. On the same day that Katy Gallagher appears to have found out, then Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton had confirmed he was briefed by the Australian Federal Police. However, she wasn’t the only politician who knew the story was about to break. The exchange in Parliament in June 2021 did refer to Senator Reynolds’ claim she was tipped off weeks before the story broke.īut leaked text messages suggest Senator Gallagher was tipped off three days before the story broke on February 11, not a fortnight earlier. We are trying to make the legal system better.” “I really do want to send a message to those people who have been sexually assaulted, who are thinking about making a complaint – there will always be people who will stand up for you, for your right to get justice. “What really worries me about this … is if you are a young woman, looking at the way this has unravelled – with personal SMS messages making it into the public domain, leaked to journalists, counselling records being given to the opposing legal team, private conversations taped and released to the public – you would really think twice about making a complaint. “The central point here is that a young woman made an allegation that she had been sexually assaulted in her workplace and that it had been inappropriately investigated … even covered up by her employers. Ms Plibersek said the recent headlines around Ms Gallagher were “missing the point”. Tanya Plibersek has defended her colleague Katy Gallagher against claims she knew about Brittany Higgins' alleged rape weeks before the story broke.
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