Lewd acts on the desks
A Morrison government adviser has been sacked after pixelated images of unnamed Coalition advisers allegedly performing lewd sex acts on the desks of female MPs were broadcast on Monday night, deepening the political crisis surrounding workplace culture at Parliament House.
The federal government was hit on Monday by new allegations broadcast by the Ten Network of male Coalition staffers engaging in vulgar and unprofessional conduct as the ABC prepared to air a new episode of Four Corners where a security guard provided a firsthand account of what she witnessed on the night Brittany Higgins was allegedly raped in the office of then-defence industry minister Linda Reynolds in early 2019.
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The report referenced images that were alleged to be of staffers masturbating on female MPs desks, with the whistleblower declaring there was “a culture of men who think they can do whatever they want”.
Labor’s shadow women’s minister, Tanya Plibersek, described the allegations as “extraordinary” and “revolting”.
Yes who wants that on her desk? A calendar, a jug of flowers, a postcard from Lake Como, yes, male colleagues’ Bodily Fluids, no.
Misogyny in government has been a rolling, horrifying disaster unfolding very publicly in Australia for around six weeks now. The story above about the male staffers sharing accounts of inappropriate things they did in Parliament House surfaced after our Attorney General was credibly accused of raping a female peer when he was a private school boy, a female staffer alleged she was raped by a male staffer in a minister’s office, the police claimed there was no case for the AG to answer without even interviewing him, a male MP apologised in parliament for his behaviour then later said he didn’t know what for (turned out to be online harassment of two women and photographing a young woman bending over at work) who was then ordered to empathy training by the prime minister who bragged that at least we didn’t shoot the women protesting this shit on the lawn outside and couldn’t find the time to meet the protestors.
Cabinet has been reshuffled, keeping both the AG in a different role, and the minister who called the rape victim a “lying cow” as well.
In all this (tip of the iceberg, there’s so much more), women organised a March 4 Women all over Australia. Then the name was changed to “March 4 Justice” because marches for women are too exclusionary, and a TiM got involved in the organising and started banning women who complained.
In addition, Scotty From Marketing has branded Marise Payne “Prime Minister for Women” meaning either that he had no empathy for women or he doesn’t see it as his role to represent women as head of our government.
He was ignoring the complaints of rape and sexual abuse in his party until he had a conversation with his wife who asked him how he would respond if it was one of his daughters. What sort of a leader cannot think of women until his wife pokes him in the ribs?
He also failed to read the letters written by the woman who accused the AG of rape. They’re on his desk, but he doesn’t seem to care to inform himself.
It looks as if it is downhill all the way for Scummo the ever-praising-God evangelical from Marketing. His Last Act promises to be a dreary and long dragged out affair, with any number of potential Judas Iscariots up there like crows on a fence, just awaiting their chance.
Well, one good thing about Scotty from Marketing is that he saved us from Benito Dutton. Who will do that now?
And Judas is the hero of the Jesus myth. No Judas, no betrayal, no crucifixion, no resurrection, no easter eggs. Oh, and no religion too.
Non-Australians will be amazed to learn that of the two major political parties, this one is the more conservative. I know, the family values and personal responisbility mob, what a shock.
Another perfect example of why I for one am actively pro shame. If I had my way, nobody would be able to behave like that and live with themselves. And I’m not just talking about getting caught either. Just having it in you to do something like that should be infinitely shameful, embarrassing and humiliating, and just about the perfect incentive for suicide.
Roj @#4:
Yes. It strikes me that if the Evangelicals are right, Judas has been very unfairly treated. Though counterfactuals are always problematic, without Judas, no crucifixion, and thus no redemption from the Original Sin held to corrupt and pollute the whole lot of us; no exceptions and no excuses; and transmitted down through the generations in some mysterious way that has baffled all cytologists, geneticists, biochemists and biologists, and will no doubt do so forever and ever. Amen.
Moreover, come Judgement Day it will be no use to plead “I never took a single bite out of that apple, pear, quince or whatever it was that was the fruit of the Tree of Philosophy, Your Honour.” (Aside: a tip. Whenever I have been arrested and hauled before the beak, even if only before the lowliest beak of a magistrate in the lowliest court in the scuffiest town around, it has always been ‘Your Honour.’ Never that ridiculous Dickensian expression ‘Your Worship’. I have never been rebuked for it by any aforesaid beak, and I believe it has always got me a lighter sentence than might be expected. But then again, that’s another counterfactual. However, I digress.)
So poor bloody Jesus got sacrificed on the Cross of Calvary to pay the debt owed to the other two partners in The Holy Trinity Inc, plus of course, Himself. Though I think He would have had every right to be thoroughly pissed off with the whole unholy setup.
Hope this helps. Theologically, I mean.