The Prime Minister has asked his former chief of staff, now head of his own department, to investigate what Prime Minister\u2019s office knew about an alleged rape of a government staffer, which The Greens say is just perpetuating the cover up.
\n\u201cEvery day, more damning information comes out about the involvement of the Prime Minister\u2019s Office.\u00a0 We need to get to the bottom of it.” said Senator Larissa Waters, Greens Leader in the Senate and spokesperson for women.
\n\u201cAnnouncing yet another internal review is delaying tactic by a Prime Minister more interested in protecting himself and his office than telling the truth and ensuring that all women who work in politics are safe.
\n\u201cThe last time Mr Gaetjens reviewed conduct in the PMO, his findings were kept secret by dubious cabinet-in-confidence claims. The PM has given no assurance that this review will be any different.
\n\u201cWe need a comprehensive, independent review with public findings and recommendations that all side of politics and the public can have trust in.
\n\u201cOn Monday I\u2019ll move a motion to establish an independent inquiry to find out who knew what, when, and what they did about it.\u00a0 We owe it to survivors to make sure no one has to go through Brittany Higgins\u2019 experience again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Prime Minister has asked his former chief of staff, now head of his own department, to investigate what Prime Minister\u2019s office knew about an alleged rape of a government staffer, which The Greens say is just perpetuating the cover up. \u201cEvery day, more damning information comes out about the involvement of the Prime Minister\u2019s … Continue reading “Another internal review just continues the cover-up”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}