Scott Morrison shuts down question time on #March4Justice day then flees the chamber as Opposition Leader, Anthony Albanese, rises on a suspension of standing orders. Peter Dutton gags the Opposition Leader as Albanese updates the house on Brittany Higgins’ extraordinary speech in front of the Australian Parliament House, earlier today.
Read what Brittany Higgins had to say when she spoke at today’s women’s march. ABC
“the Prime Minister of Australia publicly apologised to me through the media, while privately his team actively discredited and undermined my loved ones“
Voices raised in anger are echoing throughout the land but it seems Morrison still can’t hear The Guardian.
Scott Morrison didn’t want to come out to meet the women, and then sounded miffed when they declined to meet him privately in his office. At one point in the parliament, Morrison spoke as though he thought the women of Australia should be grateful for having the right to protest without being killed. Protests like Monday’s were a triumph of democracy because “not far from here, such marches, even now, are being met with bullets”. It is unfathomable how a moment so big can be met with a response so small.
Government’s tin ear on display as women bring their anger to the nation’s capital. Sydney Morning Herald.
The federal government, from the Prime Minister down, appeared skittish as lost explorers in a land of quicksand as thousands of women brought their anger to the national capital.
ScoMo awarded feminist of the year after not firing indiscriminately into crowd
“Don’t all thank me at once,” said Morrison while accepting the award. “I’d also like to point out that I have been very charitable in not spitting on any poor people today, so I’m basically Mother Teresa.”