Australian PM apologises for ‘terrible’ parliamentary culture after Canberra’s MeToo reckoning
Albanese paid tribute to Higgins, who watched proceedings from the visitor’s gallery in parliament. The Labor leader said she had “torn through a silence that has acted as the life-support system for the most odious of status quos”.Higgins and other former staffers who had campaigned for an overhaul of the toxic culture in the preceding 12 months were initially not invited to attend parliament for the statement. A surge in Covid infections has restricted public access to the building.
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