Thread by @iMusing, opening gambit: all Australians have to think about the types of people [...]

opening gambit: all Australians have to think about the types of people who have power and authority and the types of people who are representing us.
Oh we do, mate. We do. #4Corners

apparently the Canberra bubble, a favourite phrase of the prime minister, is toxic for women!!! I wonder where it comes from?
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Keneally and Hanson Young tell #4Corners that sexism is endemic, sexual harassment is rude, a man’s world.

Malcolm Turnbull on women. Who knew. “It” reminds him of the corporate scene 40 years ago. He says parliament is not modern Australia. When in fact sexism is very much the Australia I live in which is why men like Turnbull should get out of our lane. #4Corners

Liberal Party staffer Rochelle Miller says MPs and Senators think they can do anything in Canberra because there is no scrutiny. Which speaks volumes on the press gallery, who will be all over this story by 10pm tonight #4Corners

flashback to the women who spoke out (Julia Banks, Marise? Linda? I often get them muddled up sorry) when Morrison rode into the PMO on a wave of misogynist bullying, with no context other than a clip of Scott Morrison bragging about his woman ministerial appointments. #4Corners

does the Liberal Party have a women problem, Malcolm?
A: women have a problem with the Liberal Party, says Malcolm. It is perceived as very blokey.
Fact check: the Liberal Party is misogynist trash. The men are the problem. Males dominate. #4Corners

women feel “terribly betrayed” that the misogynist Party they joined turned out to be misogynist. Boo hoo. #4Corners

the Liberal Party staffer says the men “feel they can get away with things and they can because nobody calls it out”. She hedges this with guff about stress. #4Corners

Keneally says when she attended the mid-winter ball as a Sky news presenter, “Coalition men” were on the make and clumsily trying to crack on to her. #4Corners

the presenter introduced these descriptions of sexual harassment as inappropriate sexual behaviour. Then she says Miller and the boss, Tudge, were both married with children and were having an affair. She “felt like an ornament”. #4Corners

then a drunken Porter told Miller that she looked hot and Tudge insisting she, the staffer, walk in with him, the married boss minister, was media genius. Clip of Tudge blithering bullshit about “traditional marriage” while he, while married, was bonking his staff. #4Corners

Senator Concetta Fiavarentti Wells answers a Q about married ministers bonking the staff while sanctimoniously bullshitting on against marriage equality, says that politicians, stand on values and beliefs to their pre-selectors and voters. #4Corners

Miller describes Tudge schooling her on what lies to tell the press gallery if they came sniffing around to break the affair story. Snort. Since when has the press gallery reported a Liberal Ministers affair. #4Corners

back to Turnbull sharing his fantasy that the sordid sexist way Liberal Party politicians carry on has been exhumed from the corporate world. This is how little Malcolm knows about sexism and aphrodisiac power relations. #4Corners

Barnaby. Apparently “some of the ministers think it is entirely a private matter” to be bonking the staff. Porter. Who ahahaha “recognised that his conduct was not up to the right standard” says Turnbull. The AG and architect of the bigotry bill. Please. #4corners

asked about sexual harassment, Porter defaults to the misogynist refrain. He has a daughter. A wife, too. When men can not relate to women except via relation to their very important centre of the universe, themselves, they are sexist pigs. #4Corners

whistleblower says Porter’s behaviour should no longer be tolerated. No word yet what this behaviour is that we are discussing #4Corners

Jo Dyer describes Porter as brash blond and breezy and with a sense of entitlement. #4corners whistleblower is barrister Kathleen Foley. She says Porter is sexist and misogynist in the way he treated women. #4corners

Foley says Porter was very powerful at UWA, people knew his father was a Liberal Party powerbroker and looked up to him. She says his only way of treating women was to sideline women or hit on women. She describes the repulsive abusive drinking games #4Corners

christ. Porter is absolutely revolting. He will go far in the Liberal Party oh wait he airways has, being the Attorney General and Industrial Relations Minister. #4Corners

Foley says Porter didn’t change at all. He remained exactly as immature, sexist, chauvinist, misogynist, sexualised comments, objectifying women, making disgusting personal judgements about women, their weight, the size of their tits etc etc #4Corners

this disgusting pig, like Morrison before him, was made “Social Services Minister”. Clip of Porter oozing confidence while he talks about men respecting women. A thing that everyone who has met him confirms he has always done the exact opposite his entire life. #4Corners

big night on the tiles for ministers, press gallery journalists and staffers. Porter was on wife number two who was home with their toddler. Porter was pashing the young woman staffer of another cabinet minister, at the bar, surrounded by journalists. #4Corners

I wonder how many of the Canberra press gallery who have known all this for years are going to try and write their way out of this tomorrow. #4Corners

someone took pics of Porter pashing the staffer at the bar on a Wednesday night. Tudge angrily told the journo to delete the pic. Someone told Turnbull, who gave Porter a stern talking to and a promotion to Attorney General. Good show, champ. #4Corners

oddly, Turnbull then claims that Porter paid attention to him and understood there would be “very very serious consequences” so I guess Porter has never been a sleazy pig again nor stayed the highest law officer in the country oh wait no there’s a twist here #4corners

turns out that the current Attorney General, Christian Porter, after listening to Malcolm Turnbull about very very serious consequences for his sleazebaggery, continued with what Hanson Young describes as “a relationship the young woman did not want to be in”. #4Corners

Rochelle Millar agrees that the level of sleazebaggery she saw in Canberra is absolutely not acceptable in the corporate sector where she has been for the last two years #4Corners

then Porter put one of those happy families vids and Turnbull says politicians should live their values and the presenter says “the story never leaked” meaning presumably no journo chose to publish what any one of them could confirm with eyewitnesses. #4Corners

Porter chose not to answer #4Corners questions other than confirmation that Malcolm Turnbull promoted him and they fell out over Turnbull’s brinkmanship when he tried to save his PMship by saying Dutton could not be sworn in without his s44 issue (office of profit?) sorted.

Barrister Kathleen Foley steps us through the glaring problems of a drunken serial sexual harasser being Attorney General. Concetta F-W says standards a few times. The presenter claims “all ministers must now abide by ministerial standards” too, which um... not really. #4Corners

the stale contrarianism around oh but politicians can have a private life. The consensus seems to be - Hanson Young, Turnbull, presenter - that we are not talking about private life but sleazy and probably unlawful conduct in *public* life here. #4corners

well that’s that. Turns out the Liberal Party ministry is awash with creeps adulterers and sexual harassers. And we only knew they are sexists and toxic misogynists from watching with our own eyes. Incredible developments. Hope it does them at the next election. #4corners

I guess if it does damage the federal Liberal Party at the polls we will know that voters do give a flying fuck that the government is run by the creepy toxic misogynists elected in 2013, 2016, and 2019.
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wait Turnbull is gonna be white-knighting on #QandA too?? Couldn’t think of a single woman to speak to ugly chauvinist predatory treatment of women by Liberal Party males? Just a Liberal Party male? Righto my mates.

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