Prime Minister Scott Morrison: a “tin ear” or a contempt for women?

Just days after his emotional interview promising to do better by women, Scott Morrison was given the opportunity to show he had been listening. Yet again he failed.

When the news broke of MP Andrew Laming’s disgraceful trolling of two women over many years, driving one woman to the verge of suicide, the Prime Minister simply asked Laming to apologise.

Morrison also arranged for him to get “appropriate assistance to build his understanding and awareness about his actions”.

As for Laming’s future as an MP?

“I am not a member of the LNP Queensland Division, our state divisions make decisions about pre-selections.”

“I don’t hold a hose, mate.”

As has been pointed out repeatedly, Laming indulged in potentially criminal…