Bruce Lehrmann revealed as man charged with two counts of rape in Toowoomba

[Festerz]

From the Sam Maiden article..

'The producer was counselled and provided with a written warning. It is understood that Seven considers the matter has been dealt with appropriately.'

Think again



The Maiden article makes it clear the address to where the 2 Thai masseuses were sent in Sydney is known. so it isn't going to be too hard to figure out who lives there and who was present at the time. (Barry would know this but is seeking alternative verification).

Remember, this Spotlight interview was a finalist in the Walkley Awards, with Seven originally claiming no payment was made to Lehrmann for his participation in the interview (other than 'reasonable expenses').

Walkley Foundation "revokes finalist status" of Seven's Spotlight interview with Bruce Lehrmann

The Walkley Foundation has revoked the finalist status of Seven's Spotlight interview with Bruce Lehrmann for the 68th Walkley Awards.

www.mediaweek.com.au

 

[Phar Ted]

Lehrmann using channel 7's cash for hookers and Higgins 'stress grabbing' Bollinger champagne whilst being catered for by channel 10 - the swamp just continues to flourish.

 

[Festerz]

This gets better and better!

The massage bookings and the Lehrmann interview all happened back in November 2022.

Odd that this should all come out now, in the same week that the NSW Police Commissioner hired the person who was the Channel 7 Spotlight producer responsible for that interview.

Police commissioner’s new spin king prompts backlash

The announcement of veteran news figure Steve Jackson’s appointment to head the police media unit was delayed as police became aware of Jackson’s colourful history in Sydney’s media industry.

www.smh.com.au

 

[FIGJAM]

Odd that this should all come out now, in the same week that the NSW Police Commissioner hired the person who was the Channel 7 Spotlight producer responsible for that interview.

It's because he was appointed by the Police Commissioner that the dirt about his past started flying.

The Bruce Lehrmann saga is a radioactive snowball

The sordid scandal around the former staffer keeps claiming victims and ruining reputations.

www.afr.com

It's borderline funny seeing the carnage that this whole affair can generate. It's like the watching the AIDS Grim Reaper ad from the 80's. Now even the besieged NSW Police Commissioner is in the gun!

 

[DapperDon]

https://www.news.com.au/national/gl...n/news-story/dd702dd2a6ed0eae8c0652a3fe32ebf7

$2900 for 2 massages,

 

[FIGJAM]

Or 69,000 Baht.

Must have gone for a while!

 

[nut]

Our media is crap

 

[Festerz]

A reminder to those expecting Justice Lee to deliver a verdict confirming the truth defence offered by the Ten Network and Lisa Wilkinson in relation to the defamation action of Bruce Lehrmann.

Under the truth defence, the media parties must prove to the civil standard – on the balance of probabilities, meaning it is more likely than not – that Lehrmann raped Higgins. I suspect a majority of fair minded people who have listened or watched the defamation proceedings online may have reached that bar.

However, while the ‘balance of probabilities’ standard in a civil case is less onerous than the criminal standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt, the so-called Briginshaw principle applies in civil cases involving serious allegations and requires courts to proceed cautiously in making grave findings.

So claims that the decision handed down by Justice Lee on 4 April will be a ‘de-facto criminal verdict’ are far from true. I reckon Justice Lee will be very circumspect in his judgement, particularly when ‘serious credibility issues’ arise in the evidence of both Lehrmann and Higgins.

 

[spike101]

yesi yesi and ‘pustulant tumour’ how apposite.

Why are 7/8 state and territory governments Labor if News Corp is so powerful?

 

[QuietB]

Why are 7/8 state and territory governments Labor if News Corp is so powerful?

The Liberals primary vote would be in single figures without Murdoch.

 

[spike101]

The Liberals primary vote would be in single figures without Murdoch.

Doesn’t answer the question

 

[QuietB]

Doesn’t answer the question

It is an advantage - not a guarantee of success.

 

[Ice-Wolf]

https://www.news.com.au/national/gl...n/news-story/dd702dd2a6ed0eae8c0652a3fe32ebf7

$2900 for 2 massages,

At that price we should probably use quotation marks around "massages"

 

[E Shed]

Why are 7/8 state and territory governments Labor if News Corp is so powerful?

Because the liberals are a joke. The fact people are sensible enough to vote against them has nothing to do with how utterly biased & low brow the newscorp machine is.
No one said they were powerful, just untruthful & utterly in service to the big end of town in trying to frame the narrative.

Just because someone’s lies aren’t working it doesn’t mean they’re not lying.

 

[western royboy]

NSW police commissioner backflips on appointment of Steve Jackson as new media adviser

Decision announced on eve of Easter long weekend following weeks of controversy over Jackson’s former work as a journalist

www.theguardian.com

 

[Chief]

"Journalist".

 

[E Shed]

God what slime these bottom dwellers wallow in. It’s just all so sordid & toxic the whole thing.

 

[Festerz]

Why are 7/8 state and territory governments Labor if News Corp is so powerful?

Because the large majority of people under 40 do not read the main stream media and are switching away from the major parties towards the Greens and so-called teal independents with preferences flowing to the ALP.

And in any case it is not about determining elections - which are only held every 3-4 years in most jurisdictions in Australia.

It's about controlling what gets reported and what doesn't, what gets covered up and what doesn't. What is an issue and what is swept under the carpet. Especially when main stream media outlets of Stokes, Murdoch et al no longer employ trained journalists but click bait sensationalists with a clear political agenda.

Given your interest in the trials and tribulations of alleged multiple rapist Bruce Lehrmann, the behaviour of the Australian opinion columnist (NOT a journalist btw) Janet Albrechtsen and her collusion with Justice Walter Sofronoff is a prime example of this. Sofronoff's so-called 'independent inquiry into the Bruce Lehrmann criminal trial and the ACT criminal justice system has been permanently tainted by the ACT Supreme Court revelation that he had 273 private and unrecorded meetings and conversations with Albrechtsen during the trial process.

The very fabric of the ACT criminal justice system and its independence from outside media interests has been severly damaged as a result of the actions of the Murdoch press.

And the public has every right to ask - how many other trials and inquiries have been similarly tainted by interference from the Murdoch press that we don't know about?

The role of the Murdoch press in refusing to investigate and in fact assisting the Morrison Government illegal RoboDebt scandal that wrecked the lives of thousands of the most vulnerable people in Australia was shameful. As was its failure to expose the multiple ministries of Scott Morrison despite one of The Australian's journalists (Simon Benson) being told about it, - the secret only being exposed when Benson's book was published after the event.

Thankfully the cross benches of the upper houses across Australia have supported independent Royal Commissions, Inquiries and ICACs that have laid bare the disgraceful illegal behaviour of the likes of Morrison and some state Premiers that have been ignored by the conservative press controlled by the likes of Murdoch and Kerry Stokes, with strong ties to the coalition.

Doesn’t answer the question

It does if you bothered to use your brain and think about it. Give it a try. Start by reading something outside the Murdoch press to get an understanding of what is happening in the world.

 

[Festerz]

It’s weird how sleaze, rape allegations, illicit drug consumption and law suits follow Bruce Lehrmann around like blowflies on sheep dags.

Poor old Bruce never seems to catch a break. He always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people... and it always seems to be somebody else’s fault.

Such an unlucky chap.

And yet he is never short of high powered, wealthy individuals, politicians and media organisations willing to help him out. With no one ever asking...why?

And, as always, The Australian's opinion writer Janet Albrechtsen's is always there in his corner, towelling him down and whispering sweet nothings into his ear about how the system has let him down. Undeterred by her shaming in the Judicial review of the Sofronoff Inquiry, she's at it again today, borrowing a line from the UK media after the Poms lost the Ashes claiming even if he loses he's won a moral victory.





Sadly for our dear Janet, Justice Lee is clearly not the type to be open to private off-the-record conversations with a liberal party aligned Murdoch opinion columnist prior to finalising his judgement like old mate Wally Sofronoff was.

But as Janet says, all's not lost for Brucey. He's still a fair chance to get a handsome pay day after the judgement on his civil defamation action is revealed on Thursday. Such is the bizarre nature of Australia's unique defamation laws where it is up to the defendant(s) to disprove the allegation of defamation rather than the other way around.

Which will help pay his defence bills which must be well over a million dollars by now. And help him find his own digs once Stokes' Seven network kick him out of his luxury Sydney harbour view in a few weeks.

Been a tough few years for Bruce. If he wins his defamation action I hope after paying his legal bills (assuming he has to of course) he has a bit of coin left over for a Thai massage or two (therapeutic only of course) and a couple of bags before he has to front up to yet more pesky multiple rape charges hanging over his head in Toowoomba.

 

[CM86]

Why are 7/8 state and territory governments Labor if News Corp is so powerful?

Why do unthinking people repeat this all the time, without ever pausing to evaluate it?


'Why isn't everyone eating McDonalds in Bunnings 24/7? Clearly advertising doesn't work!!!'
'I'm glad I argued against the NBN'.

 

[CM86]

It’s weird how sleaze, rape allegations, illicit drug consumption and law suits follow Bruce Lehrmann around like blowflies on sheep dags.

Poor old Bruce never seems to catch a break. He always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people... and it always seems to be somebody else’s fault.

Such an unlucky chap.

And yet he is never short of high powered, wealthy individuals, politicians and media organisations willing to help him out. With no one ever asking...why?

And, as always, The Australian's opinion writer Janet Albrechtsen's is always there in his corner, towelling him down and whispering sweet nothings into his ear about how the system has let him down. Undeterred by her shaming in the Judicial review of the Sofronoff Inquiry, she's at it again today, borrowing a line from the UK media after the Poms lost the Ashes claiming even if he loses he's won a moral victory.


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Sadly for our dear Janet, Justice Lee is clearly not the type to be open to private off-the-record conversations with a liberal party aligned Murdoch opinion columnist prior to finalising his judgement like old mate Wally Sofronoff was.

But as Janet says, all's not lost for Brucey. He's still a fair chance to get a handsome pay day after the judgement on his civil defamation action is revealed on Thursday. Such is the bizarre nature of Australia's unique defamation laws where it is up to the defendant(s) to disprove the allegation of defamation rather than the other way around.

Which will help pay his defence bills which must be well over a million dollars by now. And help him find his own digs once Stokes' Seven network kick him out of his luxury Sydney harbour view in a few weeks.

Been a tough few years for Bruce. If he wins his defamation action I hope after paying his legal bills (assuming he has to of course) he has a bit of coin left over for a Thai massage or two (therapeutic only of course) and a couple of bags before he has to front up to yet more pesky multiple rape charges hanging over his head in Toowoomba.

How does anyone still convince themselves to support Lehrmann or the others on that 'side'?
Or worse, to convince themselves to have a neutral stance???


It's like, every time they find out something more insidious, malicious or corrupt about the Lehrmann 'side'... they convince themselves to hate Higgins more... to balance their position out and remain 'neutral'.
It's more common to see venomous hate for anything relating to Higgins 'side', than for the alleged multiple rapist...
WHY?


What did Higgins do wrong?
Oh, she didn't handle being raped, perfectly...
What did the other 'side' do? Well they -allegedly- raped her, covered it up, sent out an attack file to the media on her when she came forward, AFP leaked her personal information to the attack media who have stalked her around the world to dox her. Chased her around the world to sue her.


But... Don't forget, she didn't handle being raped in a textbook way... So, she kind of 'deserves' it.
Lehrmann, Albrechtsen, Reynolds, Sofronoff, AFP etc, they're the real victims!

 

[Upgrayedd]

https://www.news.com.au/national/gl...n/news-story/dd702dd2a6ed0eae8c0652a3fe32ebf7

$2900 for 2 massages,

I mean, If it stops him committing what he has alleged to have done, It's a win right?

 

[Festerz]

I mean, If it stops him committing what he has alleged to have done, It's a win right?

The point is it didn't stop it. It may well have rewarded it - and very handsomely in both financial and other terms.

And at the very least cast yet another murky shadow over this whole affair and prevented a facts-based independent analysis and assessment of what really happened and why - which, after all, is the real point of honest journalism isn't it?

It's why paying for stories (checkbook/credit card journalism) -especially when it is done under the table and for alleged criminals - is considered highly unethical. And why Channel 7's Spotlight program was scrubbed from the finalists list for the Walkley Awards.

 

[Festerz]

The Federal Court is set to hear a bombshell application lodged by Channel 10 to reopen the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial on the eve of Justice Michael Lee’s judgement.

The mystery interlocutory hearing to reopen the case is understood to be linked to evidence from former Channel 7 producer Taylor Auerbach and is slated for this Tuesday.

While further details are not yet known the test to reopen a case generally relies on legal argument that fresh evidence has come to light that was not available during the trial.

 

[spike101]

Why do unthinking people repeat this all the time, without ever pausing to evaluate it?


'Why isn't everyone eating McDonalds in Bunnings 24/7? Clearly advertising doesn't work!!!'
'I'm glad I argued against the NBN'.

As Nine “Entertainment “ owns The Age, The SMH… presumably it has a fair amount of influence. As the papers above are left leaning it has much more influence than News Corp?