Tears, bombshell texts and stunning revelations dominated an explosive first week in a rape trial that has gripped Australia.
Former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins claims ex-colleague Bruce Lehrmann raped her inside their former boss Linda Reynolds' office in Parliament House in March 2019 - allegations which Mr Lehrmann denies.
Ms Higgins cut an emotional figure at times as she was questioned by Lehrmann's defence lawyer Steven Whybrow at the ACT trial over the past week.
Texts she sent to her father and boyfriend were shared, as were messages about a potential $325,000 book deal with Lisa Wilkinson's husband, Peter FitzSimons.
At one point, she objected to Mr Whybrow's questioning, accusing him of being 'deeply insulting'.
Former Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins leaves the ACT Supreme Court in Canberra on Friday
Texts she sent to her father and boyfriend were shared, as were messages about a potential $325,000 book deal with Lisa Wilkinson's husband, Peter FitzSimons
'You are so incorrect,' she said.

'I don't know if you've ever been through a trauma before ... It's confronting, it is a very hard thing to do. I was bed bound, I was doing my best. I completely reject everything you're saying.'
Mr Whybrow also confronted Ms Higgins over a message she sent to her boyfriend David Sharaz which read: 'I'm clearing out my phone ahead of the police.'
Ms Higgins told the court she sent recordings to her partner because 'I was terrified of them not existing'. 
She was also grilled in court over a $325,000 book deal arranged for her.
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The ex-Liberal staffer admitted to a jury that she had planned chapters of a book about her life before she was formally interviewed by police about her rape claims.
It also emerged in court that Ms Wilkinson was 'quite angry' when her interview with Ms Higgins aired on The Project on a Monday because it is not a day she normally appeared on the show.
Ms Higgins also told the court she was 'clearly wrong' when she said she kept the dress she was allegedly raped in stashed under her bed for six months. 
The former political staffer was confronted with a photo showing her wearing the white cocktail number to a birthday party, some two months after the alleged incident.
Ms Higgins told Lehrmann's ACT Supreme Court rape trial that she put the dress she was wearing that night in a plastic bag under her bed for six months, api whatsapp 'untouched and uncleaned'. 
She told the jury that, once it was clear she couldn't report the alleged assault without losing her job with defence minister Ms Reynolds, she 'very symbolically washed the dress'. 
'I wore it once more but I never wore it again after that,' she said.
Former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann leaves the ACT Supreme Court in Canberra on Friday
Lisa Wilkinson (left) interviewed Brittany Higgins (right) on The Project in 2019 about her rape allegations
Brittany Higgins sent her ex a series of texts in 2019 to say her Friday night had not gone as expected after she was allegedly raped in a Parliament House office.

CoS stands for chief of staff, a key position in a parliamentary office
But during cross-examination from Lehrmann's barrister Mr Whybrow, Ms Higgins was shown a photograph of her wearing the same dress in May 2019 at Ms Reynolds's birthday party in Perth. 
Under cross examination from Mr Whybrow, Ms Higgins denied lying - but admitted she had made a mistake in her timeline of events.
Mr Whybrow put to her that she travelled to Perth on April 13, which would mean the dress was only under her bed for a matter of weeks, rather than six months, as she initially claimed. 
'It stayed under my bed for a period of time,' she told the court.
'I said six months, I was clearly wrong on that but it stayed under my bed for a period of time.'
When he asked whether it would have been difficult for her to wear that dress again, Ms Higgins told the court: 'I was reclaiming my agency when I took it to Perth.
'It was an empowerment thing, saying the worse thing in the world happened to me in this dress and I never wore it beyond that time. 
'It sounds stupid but that's just the truth.'
Former Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins and partner David Sharaz arrive at the ACT Supreme Court in Canberra
She was also confronted over a message she sent to her boyfriend David Sharaz which read: 'I'm clearing out my phone ahead of the police'
Earlier the court heard Ms Higgins had texted her dad to say a co-worker had been 'inappropriate' after she was allegedly raped in a parliamentary office by her colleague Mr Lehrmann.
Ms Higgins messaged her father - who she calls Papa Bear - four days after Lehrmann allegedly sexually assaulted her in March 2019, the court heard.
Ms Higgins told her dad that there had been an 'incident with a person at work' according to the messages read out to court on Thursday.
Lehrmann has pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual intercourse without consent. 
Text messages between Ms Higgins and her ex-lover revealed she was furious about being offered 'jack s**t in terms of help' after she was allegedly raped.
In the messages between the alleged rape victim and Ben Dillaway, which were tendered to the  in the ACT on Friday, Ms Higgins claimed she was 'literally assaulted' in former  Ms Reynolds' office but offered 'no help'.
Mr Dillaway called the ex-minister a 'f***ing b***h' in a fiery response, before Ms Higgins said the situation left her 'at the end of my rope'.
Salty texts between Brittany Higgins and her ex lover revealed her anger after she was allegedly assaulted
In another text to former lover Ben Dillaway in the immediate aftermath of the alleged rape, she admitted: 'The only thing I really want is for this to not get out and become public knowledge (pictured)
Bruce Lehrmann (pictured outside court on Thursday) is accused of raping Brittany Higgins.

He has pleaded not guilty
Ms Higgins was on Friday reduced to tears as she was grilled during cross-examination over the night in question, including over whether she had vomit stains on her dress. 
Ms Higgins initially sat in the courtroom as CCTV footage from the night she alleges she was raped was played for the jury.
It begins with what looks like a regular Friday night out at a popular Canberra bar: Ms Higgins arrives in a white cocktail dress, says hello to a table of her colleagues, gets herself a drink.
Most people at the table thought they were about to become unemployed, Miss Higgins afterwards told the court. 
The 2019 election was looming and the Liberal Party, for whom some worked as ministerial staffers, was expected to lose government.
She had been in Canberra a matter of months, moving from the Gold Coast to take up her self-described dream job working for a federal minister.
The man she accuses of raping her Mr Lehrmann, also sat in court.