Judge takes aim at Lisa Wilkinson's Logies speech as Bruce Lehrmann's rape trial delayed | ABC News

ACT Supreme Court Chief Justice Lucy McCallum has agreed, "through gritted teeth", to delay the trial of the man accused of raping former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Read more here: https://ab.co/3bewm8y

Bruce Lehrmann is accused of sexually assaulting Ms Higgins inside an office in Parliament House in 2019.

He was charged last year after Ms Higgins went to police, and has pleaded not guilty.

Mr Lehrmann was preparing to stand trial in the ACT Supreme Court over the alleged rape next week.

But Chief Justice McCallum said on Tuesday the landscape had changed since a speech by journalist Lisa Wilkinson at the Logies about her interview with Ms Higgins.

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