Thread by @BiancaMinnie4

I'm starting afresh after getting too far ahead of myself this morning & mixing up the great writings of @latingle and @murpharoo, for which I sincerely apologise! First to Laura Tingle's astute article. 1/

2/ On Thursday morning the PM apparently achieved some clarity on the full extent of the political chaos overwhelming him. Apparently the media had failed to complain to the PM's chief of staff about PMO staff "backgrounding" Brittany Higgins' partner. 2/

3/ Aside: I'm still unclear as to why after nearly two weeks of being questioned on this, with much stonewalling, the PM thought was the fault of all those slack journalists for not lodging a complaint.

4/ Of course, Tingle explains this was all about the PM doing something he dearly loves - blame shifting.
She goes on to explain the "wonder of watching the Prime Minister's journey of discovery into the world of women".
Very politely put Ms Tingle!

5/ Apparently Morrison has been listening. Carefully. He shared what he had learned. He had no idea that women don't call out bad behaviour for fear of losing a job or being intimidated in the workplace. They are even afraid to walk to their car from the train!

6/ Morrison learned a whole lot more! Women carry their keys in their hand in case they're attacked... Women are overlooked, talked over by men, treated like they have nothing valuable to contribute. Who would have thought?

7/ But wait, there was more! Women being marginalised, intimidated, belittled, diminished, and objectified. Scotty said "That is not OK."
Ms Tingle & women around the country were amazed by the 'learnings' of Scotty.

8/ Ms Tingle highlights that the many processes of the PM, which look very official appear to have another purpose; to delay or bury information and with it, accountability. The Gaetjens Review provides a good example.

9/ The PM got a bureaucrat to ask his own staff what they had known about a sexual assault. The bureaucrat "paused" the process because he may, or may not, have been asked to do so by the police.

10/ But the PM didn't seem to think Parliament needed to know this. He misled Parliament, which of course, he denied.
Bizarrely, as the PM scrambled to distance himself from the backgrounding, on Thursday he created a new process. The PM would invite people...

11/ ...including Brittany Higgins, to tell his CofS something he really didn't want to hear. As Ms Tingle points out, having dug in to avoid answering questions on this in Parliament for two weeks, it seems odd, at the least.

12/ By the end of this week it appeared the PM's edifice of processes was looking very shaky.
Women being allegedly assaulted and mistreated in the Coalition, male staffers engaged in grotesque behaviour & the Morrison Govt appearing focused on covering it up, or "managing" it.

13/ The first point of attack had been that poor behaviour towards women wasn't restricted to the Coalition, but so far little seems to have emerged on the Labor side.
Does Labor have greater discipline, party culture, draw upon a wider demographic?

14/14 Laura Tingle rightly says that what is needed is "understanding what drives the way the system has worked will ultimately be more important to fixing it than the processes set up to blind us from how they work".
So true. #auspol

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