Australian Government in Graphic Sex Video Crisis

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:42 am

‘Sickening’ government aide’s sex act on female MP’s desk emerges in latest Australian parliament scandal
Videos show staffers performing sex acts in parliament, which they also filmed and circulated
Stuti Mishra
7 hours ago
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday vowed to tackle toxic workplace culture and bring about change amidst a nationwide outcry over videos leaked by a whistleblower of staffers performing lewd sexual acts, including on a female lawmaker’s desk, in parliament.

The latest incident comes on the heels of former staff member Brittany Higgins accusing an official of sexual assault inside parliament. Ms Higgins said she feared she would lose her job if she reported the incident.

The graphic videos aired by Australia’s Ten News and leaked by a parliament insider, show staff members performing sexual acts in the building, including masturbating on a woman legislator’s desk, which they filmed and allegedly shared among themselves.

The parliament insider told Ten News the staffers shared such videos so frequently, that he had become "immune" to it. He also revealed that they used the prayer room to have sex and even brought sex workers into parliament.

He said there was a “culture of men thinking that they can do whatever they want” and while he did not think the staffers had broken any laws, he says “morally, they are bankrupt.”

Investigations were launched over allegations levied by Ms Higgins, however, an inquiry into contact between Mr Morrison’s political staff and her has been paused stating that it may disrupt a criminal investigation by the Australian federal police, which is investigating the rape allegation.

Mr Morrison on Tuesday fired a senior aide at the centre of the video controversy, labelled it a “disgusting and sickening” act. The identity of the aide was not revealed.

“The actions of these individuals show a staggering disrespect for the people who work in parliament, and for the ideals, the parliament is supposed to represent,” Mr Morrison said in a statement. “It’s not good enough, and is totally unacceptable.”

"We must get this house in order. We must put the politics aside on these things, and we must recognise this problem, acknowledge it, and we must fix it," he said, adding that he was “shocked” by the videos.
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Yobbo · Post by **Yobbo** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 6:14 am

The Australian Capital Territory & the Northern Territory are the only places in Australia where it is allowed to produce, sell, & distribute porn. So not to much out of the ordinary really!

Brody · Post by **Brody** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:53 am

Australian government staff 'filmed sexual encounters in parliament and brought in sex workers for MPs'

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Australia’s national parliament has been hit by another scandal, with reports that government staffers filmed sexual encounters in the building and brought in sex workers to see MP clients.

Channel Ten and The Australian newspaper reportedly obtained videos and images of sexual encounters filmed inside Parliament House, involving four Liberal-National staff members.

In a statement late on Monday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed one staffer who allegedly committed a lewd act on the desk of a female Liberal MP had been sacked.

Giovanni Torre
Mon, March 22, 2021, 11:17 PM·3 min read
A number of women have spoken out about the toxic, misogynistic culture in Parliament House - MICK TSIKAS/Shutterstock
A number of women have spoken out about the toxic, misogynistic culture in Parliament House - MICK TSIKAS/Shutterstock

Australia’s national parliament has been hit by another scandal, with reports that government staffers filmed sexual encounters in the building and brought in sex workers to see MP clients.

Channel Ten and The Australian newspaper reportedly obtained videos and images of sexual encounters filmed inside Parliament House, involving four Liberal-National staff members.

In a statement late on Monday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed one staffer who allegedly committed a lewd act on the desk of a female Liberal MP had been sacked.
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“The reports aired tonight are disgusting and sickening… It's not good enough and is totally unacceptable,” he said.

A number of women who have been political staffers in Canberra have come forward to speak out about the toxic, misogynistic culture in Parliament House.

The Prime Minister and his government had already come under fire for their handling of the alleged rape of a ministerial staffer in a minister’s office, by a colleague, in 2019.

Brittany Higgins went public with her allegation last month. She recently said she broke her silence in the hope it would force a change to the treatment of women in politics.

Also in February, it was reportedly publicly for the first time that a woman who had since taken her own life had told New South Wales police she was raped in 1988 by a Government Minister, later revealed to be Attorney-General Christian Porter.

He has strongly denied the claim.

Close friends of the woman have continued to push for an independent inquiry into the alleged historic rape – which the Government has refused to allow.

On Monday, one of the Parliament security guards, who was on duty the night Higgins was allegedly attacked and who found her afterwards, spoke out publicly for the first time on the issue.

Nikola Anderson, who has been a Parliament security guard for 12 years, said another guard told her the man who had arrived with Ms Higgins at Parliament at 1.50am early on a Saturday morning had acted strangely when he left.

“My colleague had tried to make conversation with him and he seemed to be in a hurry… That was when my colleague and I decided that we needed to push it up the chain and notify our night shift team leader that there might have been something a bit strange going on.”

Ms Anderson subsequently went to Minister Linda Reynold’s office, where she had previously allowed the two staffers access because the male claimed he needed something from the office that couldn’t wait until Monday, and found Ms Higgins naked on the couch.

Also on Monday, it was reported that a former housemate of the man accused of raping Higgins had told police he made unwanted sexual advances towards her.

Kriti Gupta gave statements to New South Wales police and to the Australian Federal Police, who are investigating the Higgins case.

She is the fifth woman to raise allegations against the man. A second woman alleges he raped her in 2020, a third that he assaulted her in 2016, and a fourth that he groped her under a table in 2017.