Former political staffer Brittany Higgins has married her long-term partner David Sharaz on the Gold Coast, surrounded by family and friends.
Higgins, who has fought to change how women in politics are treated after she was raped by her former colleague Bruce Lehrmann in Parliament House in 2019, took to Instagram to share the news last night.
"Today I married my best friend. 🤍" she posted alongside three photos from the ceremony.
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The pair married at The Valley Estate in Currumbin on the first day of winter.
Higgins and Sharaz got engaged on New Year's Eve in 2022, at Cape Byron lighthouse in Byron Bay NSW.
"I didn't want to enter another year without you knowing I want to spend all my years with you, Brittany Higgins," Sharaz posted the day after he got down on one knee.
"I'm the luckiest guy in the world."
Higgins and Sharaz met in Canberra in 2020.
They now live in the south of France.
The wedding comes six weeks after Justice Michael Lee handed down his judgment in Lehrmann's defamation case against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson, finding "Mr Lehrmann raped Ms Higgins" in a senator's office in March 2019.
Higgins released a lengthy statement after the ruling.
In it, she said: "It has been five years of criminal and civil trials and government inquiries for the truth to finally be heard.
"It is now time to heal."
