Brittany Higgins can be quizzed about secret recordings she took of conversations with a senior Liberal minister and her chief of employees.
The previous Liberal Social gathering staffer was known as as the primary witness within the prison trial of Bruce Lehrmann, who has been accused of raping her.
He has pleaded not responsible to sexual activity with out consent.
On Thursday the courtroom heard Higgins secretly recorded a telephone dialog together with her former boss and then-employment minister Michaelia Money in 2021, days after she resigned from her staffer place.
Money had known as to supply Higgins options to resigning from her workplace.
Higgins mentioned the telephone name was unusual as a result of the senator was pretending as if she did not learn about her alleged rape despite the fact that the pair had spoken about it earlier than.
"It was ridiculous. It was the weirdest telephone name I've ever had in my life," she mentioned.
Higgins additionally recorded a dialog with Money's former chief of employees Daniel Attempt with out his data.
Defence lawyer Steven Whybrow put to Higgins that she had despatched the recordings to a number of individuals, together with journalists, to start backgrounding for the story.
However Higgins mentioned it was for her authorized safety and in order that she may corroborate her story.
"I used to be attempting to provide them (the recordings) to as many individuals as attainable to have them simply in order that they existed," she mentioned.
"It is my phrase in opposition to a cupboard minister's and the disparity between these two powers is ridiculous."
Whybrow additionally put to Higgins different inconsistencies within the story the courtroom had heard throughout the earlier two days.
He questioned what Higgins did with the white cocktail costume she was sporting on the night time of the alleged assault.
He referred to her earlier story that she had put the unwashed costume beneath her mattress for a interval of six months earlier than she laundered and wore it to a Liberal Social gathering occasion.
He then confirmed the jury a photograph of Higgins sporting the costume to an occasion - a birthday dinner for Liberal senator Linda Reynolds - in Might 2019, round two months after the alleged assault.
Whybrow put to Higgins that she had not given true and proper proof.
"I made a mistake, I wasn't attempting to do something, I used to be simply fallacious," Higgins informed the courtroom.
Whybrow additionally put to Higgins that she had made her rape allegation public by taking part in two media interviews as a result of she meant to break the Liberal Social gathering.
Higgins mentioned she needed to reform a cultural drawback with the way in which ladies had been being handled in Parliament Home.
"I liked my social gathering, I liked the Liberal Social gathering," she mentioned.
Higgins' former bosses Money and Reynolds in addition to former Liberal MP Steven Ciobo have been listed as witnesses and could possibly be known as to provide proof throughout the trial.
The trial is anticipated to final for between 4 and 6 weeks.