The ABC has been grilled over a documentary acquired by the national broadcaster which, a Liberal senator claims, peddles a “false” Brittany Higgins’ claim.
Silenced premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and is available in the United States, but not Australia.
The film documents an international human rights lawyer’s “fight against the weaponisation of defamation laws to silence survivors” and features actress Amber Heard and Brittany Higgins, according to a synopsis, but has already been slapped with a warning by lawyers for former Liberal senator Linda Reynolds.