Is Parliament Stuffed?

How is it possible for the office of a person, one who is both the Minister for the Defence Industry and a Cabinet Minister, to be entered by two junior staff members, one of whom did not have her parliamentary pass, with the acquiescence of the security staff of our Parliament in the middle of the night?

Who protects the Parliament building after hours? The security staff? Can a Minister overrule the security staff?

Who is responsible for asking why entry was required by two young people to a cabinet minister’s office in the middle of the night?

Who authorised that entry, and who signed them in?

Having let them in, who waited and watched while they executed the business that allowed for this entry?

Where are the security cameras?

Has the video camera evidence been destroyed?

If so, who authorised this destruction?

Guardian Australia today noted that the security incident report from the Department of Parliamentary Services was initially withheld from the Australian Federal Police, but on whose orders? A serious crime may have been committed.

The Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations, the First Law Officer of Australia, kept his eyes firmly on the floor as Morrison addressed parliament on this matter.

It should be remembered that this building is the seat of power which has complete control over we, the people. Within it, many secrets are held.

What was Minister Reynolds thinking when she heard that this had happened? Did she immediately try to hush the matter up in the interest of the girl? On the current evidence this is unlikely. Did she hush it up in the interests of the girl’s job? More probably, it was in the interests of getting her government elected. She was a junior cabinet minister in an election campaign.

When she managed to control this potential forest fire by deleting the matter from the record, was the appointment as Minister for Defence in the re-elected Morrison Government the reward for so doing?

In the real world, both staff members should have been immediately sacked and the Federal Police called in.

News Corp has published a screenshot which showed text messages between Higgins and a male Liberal staffer in April 2019, the month before the federal election.

“Spoke to PMO (Prime Minister’s Office). He was mortified to hear about it and how things have been handled.

[Reply]

‘He’s going to discuss with COS (Chief of Staff) – no one else.”

This scandal, if it had become public knowledge, would have lost the now Prime Minister Morrison the election.

It is almost impossible for a potential Prime Minister not to be told about this pending disaster, one that would derail his campaign when his Chief of Staff was aware of the situation. The first person a cabinet member speaks to in the morning, and the last thing at night, is his chief of staff (COS).

Did the Liberals buy off the unknown man who went quietly?

These are the questions Minister Reynolds must answer under oath.

No wonder those who govern us do not want a federal ICAC with any form of teeth! The Tasmanian toothless and useless ICAC is suggested as the acceptable norm for Canberra. Nothing to see here …

The girl alleges that, while under the influence of alcohol, she was raped on the sofa in the Minister’s office. What did they both think they were doing?

Security saw the girl in disarray the following morning, but with no pass to exit the building surely she should have been arrested!

Yet Security said and did nothing. This order must have come from above, and we need to know from whom.

This should never be possible if she claimed she was raped, for this is a serious crime.

The office of the Minister of the Minister for the Defence Industry (think the submarine contract) must contain papers that would be most acceptable to a foreign government interested in the secrets of our nation.

Is that why we do not know the name of the male involved in this sordid business?

This lapse in security leads an observer to assess the potential for a breach of national security, yet the Prime Minister, the head of government, was not informed. This is not possible in the heat of an election. Something is seriously wrong with the understanding of proper governance by those charged to lead us.

This event suggests that those who govern our nation are neither fit nor proper – a third-rate collection of spivs who will say and do anything to keep their hands on the levers of power.

Parliament has literally been stuffed.

Scotty from Marketing and his team have been so corrupted and intoxicated by the attainment of high office that there appears to be no sense of honour or decency to be seen, even on the sofas of power.