Why Lisa Wilkinson DIDN’T think she would give speech at Logies, but knew she was treading in danger

Four days before the Logies, Lisa Wilkinson was fairly sure she would never deliver her now notorious speech that resulted in a high profile rape trial being postponed indefinitely. 

‘I don’t think I will get it because it is managed by a rival network,’ she told Shane Drumgold, the ACT’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on June 15.

The Project host was meeting Mr Drumgold to discuss her evidence at the upcoming trial of Bruce Lehrmann, who has been charged with the alleged rape of former political staffer Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in Canberra. 

Lehrmann, charged with sexual intercourse without consent, has pleaded not guilty to assaulting Ms Higgins.