Has Scott Morrison changed the script on women and sexism, or is this political self-preservation?

It started with a mea culpa. An admission of error. An acknowledgement that he had failed to get the tone right when it came to the degrading treatment of women now dominating the national conversation. That he wanted to do better, be better.

That he got it: the intergenerational trauma, the relentlessness of the subordination, the lack of respect, the fear, the repetitive reality of being talked over, objectified, sexualised, marginalised, trivialised, harassed and assaulted.

The Prime Minister arrived at his press conference in the Blue Room on Tuesday morning to send a message to Australian women that he had heard their concerns, their pain. That he knew sexism was pervasive and needed his considered national attention. He came to…