Linda Reynolds may take government’s Brittany Higgins payout to anti-corruption commission
by Josh Butler from World news | The Guardian on (#6C3AB)
The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, said the government managed the settlement by the letter of the law
The Liberal senator Linda Reynolds says she may raise a government compensation payment made to her former staffer Brittany Higgins with the new anti-corruption commission, highlighting concerns about the speed of the process and the fairness" of the Labor government's handling of the case.
But the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, said the government managed the settlement by the letter of the law, rebuffing Reynolds's claims she was silenced through the mediation process.
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