The extraordinary sequence of events which began with the allegation by a ministerial staffer, Brittany Higgins, that she had been raped in Federal Parliament two years ago by a fellow staffer, has ballooned into a national political crisis affecting the standing of the Morrison Government.
The Prime Minister, who said he knew nothing of the allegations until they were aired in the media, announced three separate inquiries into the culture of Parliament House which permitted such a crime to o…