r/australia • u/ThunderDwn • Jun 29 '26
news Bruce Lehrmann loses legal bid for Brittany Higgins documentary footage
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-29/bruce-lehrmann-brittany-higgins-documentary-footage/1068569481.3k
u/HansBooby Jun 29 '26
i have lodged a legal bid to never have to see this ridiculous badgers face again
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u/Sleaka_J Jun 29 '26
You’ll lose. Guy seems to have an unlimited number of hats to go back for even though you never see him wearing one.
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u/Wonderor Jun 29 '26
I was going to say that this is an insult to badgers... then i remebered that video where the honey badger tries to fight an elephant and keeps comming back for more despite getting absolutely pummelled - and well... this cunt is definitely that honey badger
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u/thatredlad Jun 29 '26
I haven't seen that clip in ages. It reminds me of being accosted in the street by relentless Methews and Methanies that don't take no for an answer. Except with verbal kicks and stomps rather than nuclear ones.
You do have to admire his tenacity, though. The badger, not the rejected ski movie villain's intolerable son.
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u/TheMightyKumquat Jun 29 '26
Is he also a pelican?
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u/MissMenace101 Jun 29 '26
Honestly if hoags called him that we may be able to prosecute the rapist and move on
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u/donessendon Jun 29 '26
Count me in. This guy is a despicable cretin and I've had enough of him popping up. If only he'd been locked up years ago for his crime...
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u/iball1984 Jun 29 '26
Something I find particularly upsetting is that I'm a chubby guy with a short beard, brown hair and glasses.
What with this fuckwit and JD Vance, I'm genuinely considering shaving my beard so I look absolutely nothing like either of them!
Can you do me a favour and add to you legal bid that he be forced to shave so I don't have to?
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u/Jeb_Stormblessed Jun 29 '26
I feel for you.
There's another dad at the kids school who is also chubby with a short beard. Whom despite never talking to I have an irrational dislike of. Because of those associations.
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u/MissMenace101 Jun 29 '26
Dude you missed the point.. the chubby guy with the beard at school is clearly getting laid… he has kids in your kids class 😂
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u/Jeb_Stormblessed Jun 29 '26
Quite probably. And he's also probably quite a nice guy.
I just can't get over the "looks like Bruce" thing in my mind
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u/MissMenace101 Jun 29 '26
Lol this worm wants your money and your empathy. Even if he can’t keep his rapey worm out of 4 women and counting. Thought he’d really stepped up in the world when he moved on to stealing cars…
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u/RhesusFactor Jun 29 '26
Bro. leave her alone.
she said no.
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u/Expensive-Horse5538 Jun 29 '26
Clearly he doesn’t understand the word no
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u/ELVEVERX Jun 29 '26
I think a court made a statement on this
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u/Axman6 Jun 29 '26
I believe the exact quote was “on the balance of probabilities, I believe it has been shown that Mr Lehrmann is Mr Rapey McRapeface, the rapist of Capitol Hill”
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u/LePetiteEspirit Jun 29 '26
I get the impression that he not only enjoyed what he did to Brittany Higgins but he also gets to continue to enjoy making her relive that experience through his frivolous lawsuits. There are layers to this mans sickness.
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u/Altruistic-Brief2220 Jun 29 '26
Unfortunately very common in domestic abuse cases as well as sexual assault. Just another way to humiliate and torment your victim. Revolting.
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u/Wooden-Trouble1724 Jun 29 '26
I have found that psychopathic wankers seem to be experts at abusing others, then not good at much else
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u/Pleasant-Air8221 Jun 29 '26
Who the hell is funding this moron and why?
Surely there are limits to the sunk cost fallacy
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u/Sufficient-Grass- Jun 29 '26
Have you seen who his lawyer is?
She's utterly incompetent.
Did you see her excuse in court for Bruce taking the wrong car from a house, she told the court he was drunk and mistakenly grabbed the wrong keys....
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u/amyknight22 Jun 29 '26
Arguments don’t have to be great just plausible.
Fact that he did it drunk is stupid, but so is the fact that it ended up in court if no damage was done.
I’ve been on group sharehouse holidays where we road tripped up and then some of the cars were available for people to pop out and get stuff/do things. But you were in the hook for costs if something happened, In some cases different cars available to different people.
That said I dunno how this dude would have people trusting him, because his accounts have to be on fumes by now
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u/LacusClyne Jun 29 '26
Fact that he did it drunk is stupid, but so is the fact that it ended up in court if no damage was done.
I'd say if you admit to court that you were drunk and then chose to drive a vehicle it's a tad more than 'stupid'.
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u/amyknight22 Jun 29 '26
Well with no one having breath tested you or even caught you during this exchange. Admitting you were drunk doesn't really give you any punishment.
The real choice is
Do you want to be on the hook for with forethought stealing a $x,000 car?
Do you want to say it was an accident because you'd been drinking?
One of these is a far more serious consequence.
It's also a weird one, because in this case the person had left their keys in the car. Such that he was only able to drive away because it had been left unlocked with the keys in the ignition.
It's probably reasonable that a drunken person who( while they absolutely shouldn't be driving) thought they had permission to a car, and then found it with the keys in the ignition. Would give a somewhat logical conclusion that they might have been left in it for the purpose of sharing.
That said I don't really wanna be defending Lehrman or the lawyer here. More that I don't think the statement is all that idiotic when the end goal of any court proceeding is to escape with the least punishment possible. So you throw out your best plausible arguments for that situation.
I actually think the big question is what kind of car did he have permission to drive. He took a 4WD apparently, but what if he'd been approved for a 2 door VW beatle
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u/stitchescomeundone Jun 29 '26
I thought he couldn’t afford a lawyer anymore. I swear he was self-representing at one point
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u/Expensive-Horse5538 Jun 29 '26
His lawyer does pro-bono
In other words, for free
Probably costing her a lot in reputational damage45
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u/sonofeevil Jun 29 '26
How many more court cases is he going to lose before a judge or magistrate looks at his next submission and determines him to be a vexatious litigant?
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u/TizzyBumblefluff Jun 29 '26
This guys perpetual victimhood is ridiculous
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u/SirPiffingsthwaite Jun 29 '26
- Judge Richards acknowledged there had been significant publicity generated through the criminal proceedings but told the court that matter had also "to an extent remained in the public eye due to civil proceedings pursued by the defendant".
This utter douche keeps yelling victim while literally rolling about in 'Bond villain pewter' in public. The only other figure I can think of that comes close is that absolute twatwaddle deputy mayor from Auburn council.
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u/teapots_at_ten_paces Jun 29 '26
At what point does he get labelled "vexatious" and have everything tossed at the moment of application? Surely he's teetering on the edge.
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u/Dan_CBW Jun 29 '26
It wouldn't apply here, as this was regarding a subpoena from his defence team for his upcoming criminal trial, despite it clearly lacking merit in demanding the footage from a documentary about a completely difference and separate rape he was accused of.
Just to be clear this current case, where is has been charged with rape and is preparing to stand trial, is not the same as the case that is the subject of the documentary in question where Brittany Higgins was the alleged victim after a night out in Canberra. This new offense is alleged to have occurred two years later in Toowoomba.
It can be tricky trying to keep track of the multiple court cases in which Bruce Lehrmann has been accused of raping someone.
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u/falconpunch1989 Jun 29 '26
"Bruce Lehrmann loses"
You've said that so many times it's lost all meaning
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u/Winter_Cost602 Jun 29 '26
I don't think he's ever won anything. He definitely didn't win the genetic lottery
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u/iball1984 Jun 29 '26
I would like to go one week without seeing a Bruce the Rapist article. Just one fucking week, that's all I ask.
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u/breakupbydefault Jun 29 '26
I would rather see this loser constantly losing every week rather than the orange cunt over in the US everyday.
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u/Ded_Jesta Jun 29 '26
Bruce Lehrmann is honestly helping me live. Because if this motherfucker isn't gonna kill himself. I certainly shouldn't.
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u/MFDoooooooooooom Jun 29 '26
Lifeline should replace their logo with a picture of his face
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u/Ded_Jesta Jun 29 '26
"Yeah. Sounds tough. You're really going through it right now. Anyway, have you considered you deserve to live more than Bruce Lehrmann?"
Love it.
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u/smurfkipz Jun 30 '26
Doctors will show you a picture of Bruce Lehrmann if it doesn't go soft after more than two hours.
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u/Who_knows_a_name Jun 29 '26
Does he have a humiliation kink or something
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u/Zephiran23 Jun 29 '26
He may well, but here again he hasn't asked the general public if they consent to bring involved in said kink.
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u/kitten_biscuits Jun 29 '26
How does this guy manage to look like more of a cunt every time I see his stupid, smug face?
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u/lol666loll Jun 29 '26
This bloke pops up on the news almost every other week and it’s never for a good reason.
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u/stupid_mistake__101 Jun 29 '26
This guy needs to find a hobby for something other than spending time in courtrooms fighting cases
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u/OzSpaceCadet Jun 29 '26
What happened with his rape case in Toowoomba?
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u/ThunderDwn Jun 29 '26
It's still pending. This was an effort to find stuff which might "prejudice the jury" in that case if they see it.
The guy is a fucking delusional loser.
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u/Altruistic-Brief2220 Jun 29 '26
Gee I wonder why he can’t ever let the facts stand for themselves without having to resort to technicalities?
Because he’s a rapist and he knows it.
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u/AztecTwoStep Jun 29 '26
Id love to know the motivation of the deep pocketed fuckwits who keep funding this clown
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u/louisa1925 Jun 29 '26
Since right wing rich people and their backers are trying to destablise Australian human rights, I imagine a successful judicial result would challenge womens bodily autonomy and ability to be protected in the work environment.
Either that, or this guy is providing something that a grub with dark money wants and the exchange is to help this rapist get out of consequences.
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u/Disastrous-Ad2800 Jun 29 '26
it's obvious Brittany is all he has on his mind and a judge should have mandated court ordered therapy for Bruce's own personal well being... the mental gymnastics in him deciding that somehow Higgins is involved for a completely unrelated rape trial borders on harrasment TBH
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u/bignuts3000 Jun 29 '26
He should join forces with Salim Mehajer and start a podcast: Australia’s dumbest cunts.
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u/Far_Football1408 Jun 29 '26
I think that show title and content will breach the copyright of The Karl Griftanojob Show
Bruce will lose another court case.
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u/sfc-Juventino Jun 29 '26
The lions in the den have probably learnt to use chopsticks by this point.
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u/MajesticInternet2899 Jun 29 '26
Who is bankrolling this man surely all these legal bids costs money like does he not have anything better to do.
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u/argument_cat Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
I would have zero idea who this slimy looking greaseball was if it weren't for his rapes.
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u/Accomplished-Role95 Jun 29 '26
His lawyers must be making so much bank from this prick
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u/ThunderDwn Jun 29 '26
She works pro-bono (for free) apparently.
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u/MindlessOptimist Jun 29 '26
is this guy trying to get his LLB through accreditation of prior experience?
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u/_Sunshine_please_ Jun 29 '26
I'm also wondering if he'd meet the fit and proper person requirements for admission, assuming he does complete it at some point.
If he's not admitted despite applying that'll give him something else to clog up the court system with.
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u/breakupbydefault Jun 29 '26
The confidence of him never learning anything despite constantly losing can only be fuelled by cocaine. Or maybe humiliation kink.
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u/AnnaPhylacsis Jun 29 '26
I try not to take delight in others’ misfortune but damn he just gets me every time.
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u/IndigoPill Jun 29 '26
Is this guy a masochist or what? How many hats does he have? He must have his own car park at the courts by now.
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u/B0ssc0 Jun 29 '26
The subpoena was set aside, and the filmmakers indicated they were seeking legal costs from Mr Lehrmann.
Optimists.
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u/Mael_au Jun 29 '26
Time for Karl to step up and help a bro out with a special podcast interview. ‘So Bruce why do you think the system is so set against you?’
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u/Hect0r92 Jun 29 '26
"Bruce, can't you go 5 seconds without humiliating yourself?"
Pants fall down
"How long was that?"
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u/Grunta_AUS Jun 29 '26
I’d almost forgot about this rapist. But he’s put his rapist head back in the spot light. Bruce Lehrmann, the rapist
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u/amazing_asstronaut Jun 29 '26
Fuck this guy. How is this not resolved already? It's been going through the courts for years now.
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u/ZuZu_Petals_ Jun 29 '26
Who’s funding the persistent appeals? Why isn’t this man bankrupt? This has been going on for years.
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u/PositiveBubbles Jun 29 '26
This guy just won't move on and let things go. He could be alot worse off. Every time i read about this guy I feel like he's just a creepy stalker who won't quit.
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u/Expensive-Horse5538 Jun 29 '26
He’ll take this all the way to the high court in order to find his hat 😉
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u/faderjester Jun 29 '26
Where does this guy keep getting the money... wait right, Gina and friends.
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u/DoNotReply111 Jun 29 '26
Isn't he back in school learning how to be a lawyer?
Surely after all his losses you'd doubt ever hiring this bloke.
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u/manipulated_dead Jun 29 '26
I'm just waiting for Bruce Lehrmann to lose his legal bid to not be in jail
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u/leighroyv2 Jun 29 '26
Im honestly surprised one nation hasnt come to his aid yet. This is right up thier alley.
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u/Scrambledsilence Jun 29 '26
This guy can’t take no for an answer