Court fight over Bruce Lehrmann’s diary that allegedly contains eight pages of classified information

Key points

• The contents of a diary written by Bruce Lehrmann that was seized from his home have to be declassified by the federal government to be returned to him, a court has been told.
• The e political staffer is suing the federal special minister of state, Don Farrell, and the national anti-corruption commissioner, Paul Brereton, seeking legal funding to fight allegations of corruption.
• Officials from the corruption watchdog raided the 31-year-old’s home in June 2024 over allegations he misappropriated secret documents related to French submarines from the office of former defence minister Linda Reynolds five years earlier.
• He denies the allegations and has filed federal court proceedings in an attempt to compel the government to fund his fight against the corruption investigation.
• A skirmish around a blue diary seized from his home is on foot, with the government claiming it contains eight pages of classified security information.