Katy Gallagher misled parliament on one simple fact when she told a Senate estimates hearing she did not know about an alleged rape before Brittany Higgins went public with her shocking claims in February 2021.
But the finance minister is not the only one with questions to answer about the dirty game being played with the backstory to the sexual assault claim against former ministerial adviser Bruce Lehrmann.
This means Gallagher knew something on Thursday, February 11, 2021. This was not a head start on others. Peter Dutton was told about the case on the same day because he was responsible, as home affairs minister, for the Australian Federal Police. The media put questions the next day, February 12, to then-prime minister Scott Morrison, who later said his staff did not tell him. Higgins went public on Monday, February 15.
Is this a sackable offence? The furore is not about Gallagher’s performance as a minister because she was merely a Labor frontbencher at the time of the estimates hearing. So the onus is on the opposition to prove that this should matter to voters in terms of Gallagher’s performance or the running of the government as a whole.
Gallagher is not the only one with questions to answer. The latest revelations suggest Morrison misled parliament as prime minister. One of Reynolds’ former advisers, Fiona Brown, says Morrison had a cursory conversation with her on February 18, 2021, but this was after he had told parliament he had spoken with her about the rape allegations. He says he was accurate in parliament.
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