Filth piles up around Prime Minister Morrison

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More garbage from parliament today the Morrison Government sinks even deeper into the filth. The charade that the PM is above it all leads at The Australian:

Scott Morrison has used official advice from the Australian Federal Police to set a new standard for his MPs, demanding they inform him of any criminal activity in the workplace after Defence Minister Linda Reynolds failed to notify him of the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins in her office.

The AFP has asked all MPs and their staff to report possible crimes to authorities “without delay”, warning that if they did not then evidence could be lost or the offending could continue.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.