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Canberra, Australia – Australian politics appears set to face a reckoning after a wave of allegations of sexual assault and harassment committed by multiple politicians and staff at Parliament House in the country’s capital. Allegations have so far been made against a male political staffer, alleged to have raped a female colleague in 2019, against Attorney-General Christian Porter, accused of sexually assaulting a female acquaintance when both were teenagers in 1988; and against a senior aide of a member of parliament, alleged to have sexually harassed several teenage girls. “The 1990s...

Is this Australia’s turning point on sexual harassment, assault? Kate Walton © Thousands of people are expected to join in nationwide protests against sexism in Australia on Sunda... Thousands of people are expected to join in nationwide protests against sexism in Australia on Sunday and Monday [File: Tim Wimborne/Reuters] Canberra, Australia – Australian politics appears set to face a reckoning after a wave of allegations of sexual assault and harassment committed by multiple politicians and staff at Parliament House in the country’s capital. Allegations have so far ...

Advertisement There are so many answers to refute the claim that the rule of law prevents an inquiry into rape allegations against Attorney-General Christian Porter that it’s difficult to know where to start. Attorney-General Christian Porter has vigorously denied the rape allegations. Credit:Trevor Collens Last night on ABC’s Four Corners, eminent Sydney silk, Arthur Moses QC, sounded a warning that “the floodgates” would open if an inquiry into rape allegations against Christian Porter were to be held after the NSW police had declared that it would not proceed with a cr...

In the life before, they suspected they might be vulnerable. In the life after, they knew they were vulnerable. These experiences are much more common than many people think. The point of me laying this out so directly is simple: these experiences inform how many Australian women are listening to a government trying to dig its way out of what it imagines is a political crisis. Women are listening to Morrison constructing various formulations to ride out the daily news cycle. First we were having an in-house inquiry to deal with Brittany Higgins and her rape allegation. When that didn’t c...