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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has offered a personal apology and announced a ‘review of workplace culture in the wake of allegations that a young Liberal Party staff member was sexually assaulted by a colleague in Parliament House.
But the PM has been criticised for comments which some say suggest a lack of insight into the nature of sexual assault, and even go so far as to ‘victim blame .
Former staff member Brittany Higgins spoke publicly this week of the alleged sexual assault, which she says too place when she was 24 years old and just four weeks into her job working for Federal Minister Linda Reynolds.
The big questions left unanswered about the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins at Parliament House
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Brittany Higgins went public with the allegation she was raped by a colleague in a minister s office nearly a week ago.
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Who knew? When did they find out? And what, if anything, did they do about it?
It s nearly a week since former Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins went public with her bombshell allegation she was raped by a colleague in a minister s office.
But many questions remain unanswered, and some assertions are hotly contested. This has fuelled a perception that the incident was seriously mishandled by the Federal Government and parliamentary authorities.