Brittany Higgins (pictured) went public with allegations that a colleague raped her
Scott Morrison has criticised Defence Minister Linda Reynolds for calling alleged rape victim Brittany Higgins a lying cow - but refused to sack her.
Speaking at a battery factory in the New South Wales Hunter Valley on Thursday, the prime minister said she was under significant stress when she made comments. She deeply regrets it. They were offensive remarks. She should never have made them. I don t condone them, Mr Morrison said.
Miss Higgins said the comments were incredibly hurtful and were further evidence of a toxic workplace culture behind close doors at parliament house .
The family of Christian Porter s now-dead accuser have thrown their support behind any inquiry which sheds light on the circumstances surrounding their loved one s suicide.
Brittany Higgins asked her lawyer to prepare a defamation case against the Defence Minister Linda Reynolds unless she apologises for the distasteful character assassination .
China’s strong demand for iron ore has helped BHP increase underlying net profit over the first half of the financial year, while global share markets rallied overnight on hopes that pending US coronavirus relief and the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines could stem the pandemic. BHP’s net profit fell by one fifth from $US4.9 billion a .
File photo of solar panels. CEP Energy says its $2.4bn battery at Kurri Kurri will be the world’s biggest with about eight times greater capacity than South Australia’s big battery. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian
Developers plan to build what they say will be the world’s biggest large-scale battery in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, the latest in a flurry of major energy storage projects announced for the national electricity grid.
CEP Energy said its $2.4bn battery at Kurri Kurri, north-west of Newcastle, would have a power capacity of up to 1,200 megawatts – about eight times greater than the battery at Hornsdale in South Australia, which was the biggest when it began operating in 2017.