It seems that sometimes the most important question is so often forgotten: what is the most decent thing to do?
Politics can be a dog of a job. Thankless, exhausting, even enraging. You can go in with gilded intentions and emerge bruised by hate, splattered with dirt, and not entirely sure what just happened. Sure, it’s a privilege, too, but when you watch the relentless criticism and vitriolic attack, the media’s hourly boxing-of-ears for reasons ranging from fair and important to quite unreasonable and bonkers, you can understand why some might pause before running for parliament.
You’d imagine this might be a relief, an end to things, a chance to roll on. No. In WA, Reynolds is suing Higgins for defamation over some social media posts. The greatest contradiction about the case is this: Reynolds has repeatedly said that the worst thing she could have been accused of is not supporting a rape victim. So then, having been essentially cleared of poor conduct by one judge, she decides toagainst … that same rape victim.
What’s the greater reputational risk here: being unfairly accused of mismanaging the rape of an employee or, later, suing the woman who was raped in your own office?, even information on how Higgins’ partner David Sharaz had “abruptly resigned from his job”.
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