A landmark address from Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins may be sold out, but Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he won’t be personally attending or tuning in.
Ms Tame and Ms Higgins will front the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday after months of highly publicised criticism of the Prime Minister and his government’s lack of action on women’s issues.
“I am certainly … very interested in the contribution they have made. I think the contribution they have made has brought forward some very important issues that we’ve had to deal with and we should deal with and were long overdue.” Asked if there had been discouragement from the Prime Minister’s office not to attend, Tasmanian Liberal MP Bridget Archer said it had not occurred to her but stopped short of denying reports altogether.
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