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1.05am BST
Penny Wong to Simon Birmingham:
A young woman was allegedly raped in a minister’s office. The Prime Minister is asked what he knew, when. Do you feel no shame Senator Birmingham, about the way in which this has been dragged out and the extent to which you are going, as a man representing the prime minister here, along with Mr guidance to prevent to prevent answers to the simple question of, who knew what, when.
Do you feel no shame about that?
1.00am BST
The prime minister’s office has released this statement in the midst of all of this:
On 16 February 2021, I commissioned Ms Stephanie Foster PSM, Deputy Secretary, Governance in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, to undertake a report into the procedures and processes relating to serious incidents in the parliamentary workplace.
I asked Ms Foster to consider:
