I watched our current Attorney General today on TV defend the undefensabile....historical rape. Its interesting that the "anonymous" letter that lead to this public shaming goes unchallenged under our free ranging "Whistleblower" laws with little scrutiny or publicity/motives of the author. The police have indicated that they wont proceed with any investigation as the person involved has committed suicide and there is no evidence to pursue. This alledged "incident" happened 33yrs ago.   We are moving into a nation of trial by media.

Hello PB, in this mad conspiracy theory ridden world we live in now if an accusation is made, no matter how out there, it must be dealt with transparently or the mud sticks, more than it already has, PM is refusing an independent look at it, the shit storm will just increase.

Cheers Hilly. Surely if the complainant chose not to make either a statement or pursue the matter and the police chose not to prosecute then what can any independent inquiry hope to find.

Nothing I would expect, won't stop the howling though, thank fuck I'm not famous is what I'm thinking.

Not a fan of suicide?...yeah I get it...ok but for some “comes a time” “better to die young than that fade away” all I know is I ain’t going to a nursing home nor other institution.

Selective memory is never  good when defending an action 

Strap him up, or maybe he should volunteer

What happened to "innocent until proven guilty"

germans fawlty

On the second day after things went public, Morrison told us his wife asked him to treat this as if his own daughters

 We have to stop calling persons who make allegations "victims" The use of the term gives an immediate impression that a proven crime/event has been perpetrated on them. This is totally a misrepresentation of their circumstances, the crime/events are unproven and the burden of proof goes well beyond saying someone did something thankfully.

I there is to be an inquiry it needs to not be about the allegation, that has already been legally dealt with, it should be about the motives and moral behavior of the ABC who  following her death her family asked the ABC not to go public with her case, a request the national broadcaster appeared to initially respect and then ultimately disregard. Why did they think that this was such a important matter that they needed to betray their wishes and at least, smear a ministers reputation and name, as well as distract the government during a critical time leading out of Covid. Political interference or self serving click bait?

But digging deeper who was that person...what was their motive?

Most alleged sexual assault incidents have one alleged offender and one victim with no witnesses to the incident. When the incident is so old and the victim is dead, there is absolutely nothing to be gained by looking into it any further. 

The absurdity continues....the partner of Brittany Higgins ( the first public alledged rape matter) he is “angry and sad” that he and the alleged rape victim are having to pack up and leave Canberra “forever”, in a since deleted tweet. The truth is that he resigned and has taken up a different job in a different state, and she resigned from her job! Never ever let the facts get in the way of a good story.