news, latest-news A former Liberal staffer who says she was sexually assaulted by a male colleague inside Parliament House is proceeding with a formal complaint to police. Brittany Higgins went public this week with allegations she was raped in 2019, plunging the Morrison government into a political crisis. “I have re-engaged with Australian Federal Police
Federal LNP MP Andrew Laming will call for a massive increase in youth drug testing in a bid to solve the youth crime crisis. Youth crime and drug addiction has been put in the spotlight in Mr Laming’s electorate of Bowman following the tragic deaths of Kate Leadbetter and Matt Field on Australia Day. Mr
‘I was a staffer, and so was my perpetrator’ The Saturday Paper Source link
Police are appealing for urgent help to find a woman and her two-year-old child missing from Browns Plains in Logan. Brogan Almat, 29, and her little girl were last seen leaving Ipswich train station at around 1.30pm on Friday. Detectives say it’s possible the pair may be in the company of a man and another
At the political heart of the harrowing personal story of a young woman allegedly being raped on the couch of a minister’s office in Parliament House is the idea that, beyond the assault itself, the incident may have been covered up, and the young woman made to feel a political liability. This week’s revelation about
A 62-year-old local man has died following a single vehicle crash at Mount Barney this afternoon. Investigations indicate just before 4pm, the man was travelling on Seidenspinner Rd between Lower Portals Road and Barney Creek Vineyard when the station wagon left the roadway. The vehicle then collided with a tree causing it to overturn. The
This is not a sex scandal. Brittany Higgins experienced the barbarous side of power The Australian Source link
But others told Higgins to keep it quiet. Some members of the government’s political staff worked hard to keep it so, on Brittany’s account. Especially when it seemed that a reporter might be on to the story. She has since said that, from the very outset, she felt that she was seen in the building
A woman allegedly kept as a slave by a Melbourne couple for eight years told police she wasn’t allowed to leave their home, slept only an hour a night and never received a wage for her work. The woman said in a video interview that she came to Australia in 2007 as part of an
Victoria’s upper house has passed a bill to decriminalise public drunkenness, 30 years after it was first recommended by a royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody. The Summary Offences Amendment (Decriminalisation of Public Drunkenness) Bill passed the Legislative Council on Friday afternoon. Abolishing the offence of public drunkenness was a key recommendation of the
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