Morrison Government rape protection racket goes nuclear

Monday, 1 March 2021

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Allegations of rape and cover-ups thereof within the Morrison Government and the Liberal Party continue to worsen. Now there are media indictments against a cabinet minister, at Domain:

Accusations against a federal cabinet minister have been referred to police after two senators received an anonymous letter on Friday with allegations of a decades-old rape.

Labor Senator Penny Wong and Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young sent the claims to police soon after receiving the letter, which was attached to a statement from a woman who said she was raped.

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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.