Brittany Higgins says if claims the Prime Minister s Office is trying to undermine by providing briefings to journalists are true, it silences people and I think it s gross .
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at 9:00 am on February 18, 2021 | 146 comments
The lack of outrage over the new low set this week in our politics is shocking. At The Australian the silence is deafening. It actually has the gall to lead with this today:
Labor is as bad as the Coalition right now, is it?
At Nine, where Peter Costello is chairman, and where centrist journalism has been doing a decent job in recent times, the story was buried yesterday. See if you can find it:
Not all Murdoch media is derelict. News does better today:
The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate have joined the long list of people privy to allegations of “an incident” in the nation’s Parliament two years ago that Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins claims was rape.
Struggling to hold back tears, Defence Minister Linda Reynolds has defended her handling of a rape allegation by her former staffer, describing it as a “difficult” and “complex” matter.
DID SCOTTY KNOW?
According to
Scott Morrison’s claim that no one in his office knew about
Brittany Higgins’ alleged rape has been undermined by newly-released text messages revealing one of his staffers was “mortified” by the story and pledged to bring the allegations to the prime minister’s chief of staff.
The April 3, 2019 text came 11 days after the alleged incident and, reportedly, were due to a friend’s connection with the Prime Minister’s Office after Higgins confided she had received “jack-shit” support from the Liberal party.
The news comes after
Linda Reynolds delivered an apology to Parliament alleging she did not pass on details of the allegations to Morrison out of concern for Higgins’ welfare and privacy.