Her story: The woman who said the Attorney-General raped her as a teen
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There were seven young people in the Australian national debating teams of 1988 and 1989.
All of them were clever, precocious and poised on the threshold of a life that held great things. Of the cohort, two became members of Parliament, one of those the Attorney-General.
Others moved into banking, entrepreneurship, the law, the arts and media.
One, the brightest of the lot, so bright she was in the team in both years, was a prefect and a star debater.
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Australia's defence minister settled a defamation case Friday with a former staffer who was allegedly raped in her parliamentary office, after calling the woman
NSW police need to reopen Porter rape case: professor
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Investment banker James Hookeâs offer to testify about private discussions he had with Attorney-General Christian Porter and the woman who accused the first legal officer of rape have raised questions about whether a police investigation was closed too early.
Melbourne University professor Jeremy Gans said a criminal court might allow Mr Hooke to describe conversations with Mr Porter and the woman, who committed suicide in Adelaide last year, under what is known as the uniform evidence law.
The decision on whether the information could be used at all would likely depend on how close the conversations took place to a sexual assault she claimed happened at a debating competition at Sydney University in 1988, he said.