Brittany Higgins’ new role is the start of a system overhaul

*Content Warning: Rape in this article

Brittany Higgins is not a hero to rely on rape, but he writes to talk about it about his strangled voices about him, Zayda Dollie.

Former liberal staff Brittany Higgins, which stands out with allegations of rape Bruce Lehrmann In 2021 he announced that he returned to public life.

30 -year -old former media consultant Liberal party Newly appointed manager Public Relations for PR Agency Third hemisphere. Higgins’s return to the intersection of private and public discourse is as intentional as the first step to the media years ago.

Higgins seems appropriate to invite the arena to shape how the people think, speak and move. Apparently, instead of escaping from his past, he chooses his ordeal, instead, he uses it as a speech point for a dialogue that needs sounds.

In accordance with To the third hemisphere:

‘The right message can change public dialogue at the right time and increase real world results.’

Higgins at the beginning of this week, defined The cultural decline he saw, following that it took place in Australia #Me too movement.

HE in question:

Movements not only provoke change. They also encourage back recoil. And if we look around in 2025 today, it is clear that it is a systemic cultural crisis against the idea that sexual violence deserves to be taken seriously, not only against the survivors.

[Such backlash is] well financed, Sophisticated and sometimes deeply embedded in institutions to protect us.

Higgins was working as a media consultant under senator Linda Reynolds In that case raped In 2019 by his senior colleague Bruce Lehrmann in the Parliament House.

Higgins continued to work for two years quieter for the liberal party. allegations In February 2021. The decision to approach the media was sinking with intention. Higgins was never wasted during the five -year legal action.

Higgins in question Immediately after the rape, he did not receive special support from the Liberal Party and even received less support even after the public was opened to the public. His boss was clearly discredited by his Senator Reynolds and was deliberately represented by the mainstream media organizations that remained unnecessary. focus Higgins’s actions and his cross questioning decisions It was made by the senior management after the alleged rape.

Federal court justice Michael Lee In the balance of possibilities, Lehrmann found raped Brittany Higgins. Despite this finding, Senator Reynolds filed a lawsuit against Brittany Higgins. slander With a five -week hearing in September last year. The decision has not yet been delivered. Reynolds is also a recent case Against Commonwealth, he violated the task of acting according to his own interests by giving Higgins a compensation of $ 2.44 million.

There is Reynolds allocated According to the personal damage that Higgins feels that he was given to him by rape claims, request Worker senator Penny Wong To ask him “So you’re the victim, isn’t Mrs Higgins?”

Higgins opened to the public with their claims in the first place because the current support structures appeared He’s more prone to cover them. Higgins wanted To reveal the way of misuse in an attempt of sexual assault reform This – revealing the defects in a system that failed victims.

Higgins in 2022 said Media outside the court:

“My life has been examined to the public, it is open for the world to see. Many of you have been called to label in the last few weeks, ‘Higgins hearing’. But I don’t blame you because it is very clear.”

Higgins spoke to the public again this week address About the need to transform media narrative around sexual assault.

HE in question Media, clothes, alcohol consumption and sexual motives examining:

“… unintentionally, they [other survivors] They saw the same old discourse that taught shame in the first place. Suddenly, they saw that rape, attack or harassment could be attributed or attributed to the actions of the Australian people. “

The appointment of Higgins by the female -led PR agency people To use their voices.

HE in question This week:

He continued: “This work will be difficult. It will be uncomfortable. Centuries of inheritance will involve the quitting of the legal thought … We must demand transparency … And we must make silence impossible.”

There are many voices that deserve Higgins to be strengthened – the time when the people hear them.

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Zayda Dollie is an IA help editor who believes in the power of stories and the sound of women’s voices. You can follow him on Instagram @zayda_dollie_hendricksX @Zaydad or bluesky @Zaydadollie.

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