Lisa Wilkinson speaks out after winning defamation lawsuit filed by Bruce Lehrmann

Lisa Wilkinson has spoken out after winning the defamation case brought by Bruce Lehrmann – after a judge found he raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament in 2019.

Outside court, a vindicated Lisa Wilkinson said: ‘Today the Federal Court found that I published a true story about a rape in a federal politician’s office in March 2019.

‘I sincerely hope that the verdict gives strength to women around the country.

‘I am also so grateful to have benefited from our independent legal team’.

She thanked her barrister Sue Chrysanthou SC, her supportive family and friends and ‘generous’ members of the public who often turn to her in tears.

‘Her expertise and wise counsel have been a source of continued strength for me over the past 14 months.

‘I can never thank you enough’.

Sir. Lehrmann sued Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson for defamation over a February 2021 report on The Project in which Brittany Higgins claimed he raped her in a parliamentary office nearly two years earlier.