A third woman has come forward to allege she was sexually assaulted by the same political staffer accused of raping a colleague inside Parliament House. The woman said she was assaulted while working as a coalition volunteer during the 2016 election campaign. She was barely out of school at the time of the attack, which allegedly occurred after a night out drinking with the then-political staffer. A second woman came forward over the weekend. The allegations come as Brittany Higgins, who said she was raped inside a parliamentary office in 2019, prepares to make a statement to Australian Federal Police. Higgins was employed by Defence Minister Linda Reynolds at the time of the alleged assault. Labor’s Senate leader Penny Wong said Senator Reynolds had questions to answer about how the complaint was handled. “She wasn’t being treated as a human being. She wasn’t being treated as a rape survivor and she …
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