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PARLIAMENT HOUSE RAPE CLAIM ROILS AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT. Women’s rights advocates called it an extreme example of what has long been described as a culture of misogyny that has pushed several women out of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s coalition government.
February 15, 2021
Livia Albeck-Ripka
Indiana Express
A former government staff member’s account of being raped in Australia’s Parliament building sent shock waves through the country’s halls of power Monday, with the governing conservative party coming under intense criticism for the way it had handled the case.
Women’s rights advocates called it an extreme example of what has long been described as a culture of misogyny that has pushed several women out of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s coalition government.
The former staff member, Brittany Higgins, now 26, said she was attacked nearly two years ago