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Can Parliament House become a less ugly workplace?
Federal parliament this week has been rocked by revelations by a former adviser to the now Defence minister, Linda Reynolds, that she was sexually assaulted in the minister’s office two years ago.
The staffer’s ordeal was splashed across the media and made the centre of parliamentary attacks by the opposition and Greens against the Prime Minister, Senator Reynolds and the government’s response to the allegations.
Genuinely upset, Prime Minister Scott Morrison is at least moving fast to ensure that what was allegedly done to her cannot happen again.
As Canberra veteran Tina Faulk wrote in her Flat White article yesterday, nobody is conscripted to work in federal politics. It is a surreal working environment, especially…
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