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Thousands gathered at Parliament House for the Womenâs March 4 Justice. They gathered in every capital city and country town from Torquay (where participants used their bodies to spell out the word ‘Justice’ on the beach) to Taree, from Shearwater to Somerville, from Bunbury to Bundaberg. It was a surprise appearance in Canberra from the 26-year-old, her first since she went public with her story. The crowd was hushed and people sobbed audibly as she composed herself while MC Julia Zemiro angrily told cameras to back off. “My story was on the front page for the sole reason that it was a painful reminder to women that it can happen in Parliament House and can truly happen anywhere,” a strained and visibly distressed Higgins told the crowd. ....
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 saw a sudden rise in women in parliament, but even now, only a quarter of politicians are women,” Blair Williams, a research fellow at The Australian National University’s Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, told Al Jazeera. ....