Crikey has made the choice to unpublish the article, and apologises to Brittany Higgins and readers.
Crikey has made the choice in the present day to take away a chunk written by Man Rundle that asserted the session course of over Brittany Higgins’ compensation was “stunningly fast”. That’s not right — Higgins lodged her declare in March 2022 whereas the Morrison authorities was nonetheless in workplace, and it was not settled till December 2022, seven months after the election of the present authorities.
The piece additionally repeats the false assertion that the “determine is believed to be $3 million”. There isn’t any factual foundation for the $3 million determine; Higgins has publicly stated that determine was her preliminary declare however that the ultimate determine was a lot decrease than that.
Along with these factual errors, the tone of the piece didn’t meet Crikey’s journalistic requirements, crucially provided that it issues writing about allegations of sexual assault.
We firmly imagine in selling an area that publishes a plurality of views, and as editors we usually publish opinion items that we could personally disagree with. However this piece doesn’t fall into that class, and we remorse publishing it. We’ve persistently pointed to the flawed protection of Information Corp on this challenge, solely to then be part of it in making that very same mistake ourselves.
We apologise to Brittany Higgins and our readers and we’ll replace you on a seamless dialog round this challenge.
