Peta Murphy (Dunkley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Eleven days after her reported rape in March 2019, Brittany Higgins received a text message from a government staffer which read:

Spoke to PMO. He was mortified to hear about it and how things have been handled. He's going to discuss with COS -- no one else. I flagged need for councillor …

Isn't it beyond belief that the Prime Minister's office didn't know until this year, when two years ago a member of the Prime Minister's office was mortified and discussed the need for a counsellor for Brittany Higgins?

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