The Labor government has been forced to bunker down after being buffeted on two fronts (in both the upper and lower house) by the opposition over the Higgins saga and the Australian Greens on housing affordability.
This comes after finance minister, Senator Katy Gallagher, faced claims she had misled parliament over her knowledge of Brittany Higgins’s rape allegations following her admission on June 13 that she had been informed about Higgins’s alleged rape—after denying the accusation—while proclaiming she had done “absolutely nothing” with the information.
The finance minister had little choice but to make the admission after text messages emerged suggesting Gallagher, and other senior Labor MPs, had tried to leverage the alleged assault for political gain….