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17 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
THREAD: 1. Here’s a message I received from another another Liberal staffer this morning, tweeted & anonymised with her permission: I am a former LNP ministerial staffer...culture is rife and accepted as an every day occurrence. And there is no recourse to have it dealt with...
2....because your job is constantly threatened & so is any future job you might want. There is also no proper oversight body & I know first hand if you try & raise any issues they will not be dealt with; but you sure will be. I think the current review...
3... needs to ask former staffers about their experiences. There is a reason we are former staffers and not current ones. I worry that any review using current staffers will be skewed. I am too scared to speak out publicly because I worry for my career into the future if I do.
4. “And there are many like me. [This government does] terrible things. Awful things. And get away with all of it.” These are words of former long-standing Lib staffer. But they reflect what I’ve heard from many other Liberal women staffers for months. #auspol #BrittanyHiggins

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15 Feb
#Auspol THREAD: Just saw Brittany Higgins’ extraordinary interview w @Lisa_Wilkinson. Wanted to put some things on the record. 1. Of the many women politicians we called for @4Corners Inside the Canberra Bubble, only one who refused to speak & hung up phone was Linda Reynolds.
2. This was a surprise, because in the internal correspondence we had between Coalition Women on WhatsApp, Ms Reynolds was one of the most vocal in defending women’s rights in the party, &, to be frank, in decrying the sexist attitudes of some of her male colleagues in the party.
3. At the time of the story, we didn’t feel it was necessary to name women in those messages - it was the content that was important... their palpable frustration at the rampantly sexist system they they described. They wanted to inspire young women, not let them down.
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22 Dec 20
This is welcome, @tweetinjules. I can’t tell you how hard it was obtaining conviction against Pell defender who repeatedly threatened to kill me. When it went to court first time, cops didn’t bother to inform me of date or the outcome. He was emboldened. heraldsun.com.au/news/national/…
So it started again. For the second time, repeatedly breaching his AVO, “I will find you”, referencing NZ mosque killer, threatening to cause an incident, contacting my friends. Despite all the help I got & the privilege I have, there was no sense of urgency from police.
At one stage, I remember detective saying she’d have to contact “Tweeter” in the US & could take a year. He was threatening to kill me at event a couple of weeks away. When my boss said if this was the PM, they’d be outside his house, she said “Louise isn’t the Prime Minister”.
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12 Nov 20
1. Questions from @4corners for @AlanTudgeMP, given the Commonwealth Attorney-General is denying events at Public Bar witnessed by multiple people, including Rachelle Miller, a senior journalist, a public servant & at least three other Lib staffers (one made a file note):
2. Why did you pressure the journalist to delete the photograph of Mr Porter and the young female staffer?
3. Why did you arrange to meet at Aussies Cafe, Parliament House, the following day, to again ask the journalist to delete the photograph?
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11 Nov 20
5. I have spent the past year or so talking to barristers for my book Witness. Gender equity is a disaster at the Bar. This needs to change. It is part of the reason, I believe, why female complainants still get a hard time, still get bullied by old white barristers.
6. PS: I learned all of this from other strong women barristers. They are fuming. Haven’t heard it from Kathleen.
7. I should add, civil war broke out some time ago at Vic Bar (not @4corners issue) as barristers saw incomes disappear over COVID. But I’ve had numerous women barristers contact me over what they see as worrying developments. Why in 2020 does anyone belong to male-only clubs?
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9 Nov 20
THREAD. 1. An Attorney-General should tell the truth. Bottom line. Did he here? Is the Attorney denying any of the behaviour witnessed by multiple professionals in the employ of the Liberal Party who witnessed his behaviour that night?
We gave the Attorney TWO WEEKS. That’s right, journalistic colleagues who give politicians hours. He provided nothing. His staffer kept telling us he couldn’t possibly put this to the Attorney. A matter for him.
3. He may not remember Ms Foley, Ms Dyer, nor many other women. They remember him.
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7 May 20
THREAD: List of Royal Comm (unredacted) findings re #Pell:
1. Ballarat Bishop Mulkearns did not lie to his consultors, including Pell, re true reason for shifting paedophile Fr Ridsdale from parish to parish.
2. 'Inconceivable' Mulkearns deceived Pell et al. (Rejects Pell alibi)
3. "We are satisfied...Mulkearns told the consultors it was necessary to move Ridsdale...bc of complaints that he had sexually abused children. A contrary position is not tenable."
4. Conduct of any consultor (Pell) who knew & didn't advise against moving Ridsdale 'unacceptable'.
5.Pell's was consultor. Pell's conduct, therefore, "unacceptable".
6.“Lives of dozens of children and their families, likely to be more than 100, were devastated by [Ridsdale’s] conduct."
7.Pell, then-Episcopal Vicar for Education, knew of offending in Ballarat diocese from 1973.
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