The felony trial for the person accused of raping Brittany Higgins will proceed for a sixth day.
Bruce Lehrmann has pleaded not responsible to sexual activity with out consent.
ACT Supreme Court docket Chief Justice Lucy McCallum advised the jury on Monday that Higgins was unavailable to offer proof.
The trial continues in Higgins' absence with the Crown to name different witnesses.
Higgins is because of face continued cross-examination by Lehrmann's defence lawyer Steven Whybrow after her model of occasions was put to the jury within the trial's first week.
The court docket heard Higgins allege that within the early hours of Saturday, March 23 2019, Lehrmann sexually assaulted her inside then defence business minister Linda Reynold's workplace.
The pair had been working as ministerial staffers for Senator Reynolds.
Higgins alleges the assault occurred after Friday evening drinks with defence colleagues at a well-liked Canberra bar.
Sharing a taxi to their respective properties, Higgins mentioned Lehrmann advised her he wanted to gather some work paperwork from Parliament Home on the best way.
After falling asleep on a sofa within the minister's workplace, Higgins alleges she woke as much as Lehrmann having intercourse along with her and says she advised him to cease.
Lehrmann denies having intercourse with Higgins.
Whybrow has put a number of inconsistencies in Higgins' story throughout his cross-examination, together with that she created a timeline of occasions and distributed it to the media.
Higgins mentioned the file was for the police when she reopened her grievance, however admitted it had additionally been distributed to journalists.
Whybrow additionally pressed Higgins on why she had deleted some textual content messages and photographs from her telephone earlier than handing it to police.
She advised the court docket she had cleared her telephone of images displaying her holding alcohol or with politicians.
However she denied she had completed so to mislead officers investigating her allegations, however fairly to purge her telephone of "horrible components" of her life.
The trial is predicted to final for at the least one other 5 weeks.
Chief Justice McCallum has warned the jury to not learn any media protection of the case nor focus on what they hear in court docket with folks at dwelling.
She defined to take action wouldn't represent a good and neutral trial.
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