Lisa Wilkinson launches astonishing public attack on 'three women' at Network Ten - as she reveals her surprise next career move

Lisa Wilkinson has sharply criticised Network Ten during a nationalist question and reply league - with the TV prima pointing the digit astatine 'three women' astatine the web who she claims stock the blasted for her catastrophic Logies speech. 

During a speech astatine a publication festival successful Taree, connected the NSW mid-north-coast, connected Friday night, the one-time co-host of The Project unleashed a fiery blast astatine her erstwhile bosses astatine Network Ten. 

Addressing a dimly lit, half-full auditorium for $25-a-head, Wilkinson was asked by 1 attendee wherefore women neglect to enactment different women successful media, starring the seasoned TV and mag writer to reply: 'I would emotion to know'. 

She past went connected to slam a trio of unnamed women who 'run Channel Ten' for allegedly failing to judge their stock of the blasted for her arguable 2022 Gold Logie triumph speech.

That speech, wherever she praised Brittany Higgins' courage, led to the hold of the proceedings of Bruce Lehrmann for allegedly raping Ms Higgins astatine Parliament House - starring Wilkinson to beryllium wide pilloried. 

'Three women who tally Channel Ten each work that speech,' Wilkinson said. 

'When s*** deed the instrumentality I said: "I'm connected the beforehand leafage of each paper successful the state close now, I americium being destroyed. 

'I volition instrumentality immoderate of the blasted due to the fact that I said those words, but they are the words you asked maine to say.

'You (the Ten women) cognize the ineligible presumption I americium in. You approved it. I went to the ineligible section .... 3 times, including up to the day of the Logies earlier I got connected that stage. 

'You've got to instrumentality immoderate of the blame. 

'I was told: "Oh we couldn't bash that. That volition lone marque it worse". 

'And arsenic the weeks went connected and I said: "This is getting worse, not for you, no-one's mentioned the relation that immoderate of you person played".

'And it was 3 women.'

Wilkinson did not notation to the 3 women she was speaking astir by name.

However, successful an affidavit to the Federal Court for Lehrmann's defamation proceedings against Ten, Wilkinson said she believed Ten's elder ineligible counsel Tasha Smithies, caput of PR Cat Donovan and CEO Beverley McGarvey had 'reviewed and approved' her speech. Only Ms McGarvey is employed successful a large enforcement relation moving Ten. 

The bonzer nationalist blast is the archetypal clip extracurricular tribunal proceedings that Wilkinson has been captious of her erstwhile employer, which paid her $1.7million a twelvemonth to co-host The Project - lone for her to vanish disconnected aerial connected gardening permission for the last 2 years of her contract. 

Lisa Wilkinson reveals her adjacent job  

Wilkinson started disconnected her 'Evening With Lisa Wilkinson' lawsuit with a gag astir the Logies saga. 

'Before I begin, earlier anybody starts feeling a spot nervous, I person to corroborate that I person had this code legalled by my autarkic ineligible team, truthful don't anybody panic, slightest of each me,' she said. 

She past trotted retired her acquainted working-class-girl-from-Sydney's-west-makes-good story, portrayed her downfall from web tv arsenic hardship suffered with dignity.

Asked by an assemblage subordinate wherefore she had not yet taken up a station astatine a nationalist broadcaster - specified arsenic the ABC oregon SBS -  Wilkinson answered that she was inactive successful a signifier of ineligible limbo, contempt Ten and her triumph implicit Lehrmann successful their defamation case.

'I'm successful a precise absorbing presumption astatine the moment. That's the astir generic connection I tin travel up with for the presumption I'm in,' she said. 

'I don't cognize if you're alert that adjacent though we've won the ineligible lawsuit - and the justice did state that Bruce Lehrmann is simply a rapist - Bruce Lehrmann has appealed that finding.

'And truthful the case, the appeal, is backmost successful tribunal successful August ... I don't cognize what's going to happen.'

She swatted down rumours of a foray into politics, claiming her clip was alternatively being taken up by penning a biography connected a pistillate whose beingness she sees arsenic the 'greatest Australian communicative that has ne'er been told'.

Wilkinson said the unnamed woman's communicative crossed her table astatine her darkest hr successful caller representation - the play aft Channel Seven's Spotlight aired a portion of a pre-interview she had with Ms Higgins earlier she appeared connected The Project. 

Channel Seven's 'disgusting' edit 

Wilkinson was intelligibly inactive upset by the network's portrayal of a five-hour gathering she had with Higgins and her now-husband David Sharaz. 

'They wholly twisted what was said, edited it successful a mode that was disgusting, that made it look similar we were successful a nightclub,' she claimed.

'It was each caught connected portion due to the fact that we were ordered by the courts to springiness them everything we had. 

'And I'm an honorable journalist. I'm not going to fell anything, you know, I privation the information to travel out, but what Channel Seven did with it blew my mind, and for me, I couldn't spot a mode forward.'

The mum-of-three, who lives successful Cremorne connected Sydney's little northbound shore, said she was incapable to permission her palatial location for 2 weeks aft the communicative aired.

Wilkinson said things got truthful atrocious her husband, Peter FitzSimons cancelled a enactment travel to beryllium by her side. 

'He was truly disquieted astir me, and helium had bully crushed to beryllium precise disquieted astir me,' she told the audience. 

While she remained tight-lipped connected her upcoming biography, the parallels with her efforts to bring Higgins' communicative retired of the acheronian were plain to see.

'When Australia learns astir this pistillate and realises that her communicative has been buried, you're each going to autumn successful emotion with her,' she said. 

After a beingness spent wrong the media looking out, the airy has been turned backmost connected her. Or arsenic she enactment it: 'I've recovered myself successful the unfortunate presumption of going from reporting the quality to really becoming the news.'

It's led her to disdain the manufacture that made her and broke her.

'When you're astatine the bottommost of a heap and you cognize the truth, and you cognize that determination are journalists who bash cognize the truth, volition either enactment soundless oregon invent a narrative, due to the fact that I was silenced legally, there's a batch of mainstream media I'm rather disgusted by,' she said.

And yet, she inactive believes successful its powerfulness to execute affirmative change.

'Despite each that I person witnessed successful caller times and each that I person been through, I bash judge that it has each been worthy it, due to the fact that sunlight truly is the champion disinfectant, and that the lone happening much frightening than speaking your information is not speaking astatine all,' she said.

'And arsenic personally, financially and professionally hard arsenic the past fewer years person been for me, I volition ne'er regret putting the Brittany Higgins communicative to air.

'It has changed our country. 

'It has exposed truths that desperately needed to beryllium exposed, and arsenic the toxic civilization wars, the inexpensive headlines and the uninformed commentators person begun to autumn away, I cognize the bequest that this communicative is continuing to present for truthful galore women and survivors of intersexual battle astir this country, and I'm truthful arrogant to person been a portion of that.

'That is what matters successful my story.'