Morrison will never take responsibility for what his office did, knew or told him. He will never admit that he knew, and will sooner throw anyone under the bus. His office's investigatn is a delaying tactic obvs.
His shamelessness is his greatest political strength.
What to do.
Q: Were you disappointed that you weren't told in April 2019 when they found out?
PM: That is not a matter that has been established. My advice is as I set it out in the parliament. That is why I have asked the dept to look at these matters in terms of the advice I have received.
Am now thinking back to Morrison's answer in parliament this week: "The first time that my office became aware of an alleged sexual assault, I'm advised, was on 5 April of this year. Sorry, I misread that—apologies. It was 12 February 2021."
So he misled parliament.
"The government says Mr Finkelstein and the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, John Kunkel, treated the incident as a security breach when first told in March 2019 that Ms Higgins and her colleague had returned to the ministerial suite late on a Fri night."
Everyone from AFP, DPS, Reynolds, her office, Cash, knew of the rape allegation in 2019
PMO defence: it knew about it, but only as a security breach
The PMO defence only stands if (as they claim) Higgins is lying about contacts from Finkelstein AND the new text message is fake
@NickFeik
Surely the question to him has to be, “what does this say about the competency of your office that you have to order a review to attain if they are telling the truth or not?”
@NickFeik
@PSyvret
"I want you to tell me if you told me."
"If we told you..."
"..yes, did you tell me about it?"
"I mean, we told you.."
"..bearing in mind that I've told everyone that you didn't tell me."
"..okay, so we...didn't...tell you?"
"Perfect, thanks guys!"