30 Apr 2021

Aus PM to meet with alleged rape victim

From Midday Report, 12:45 pm on 30 April 2021

To Australia now, where the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, is set to meet a former Liberal Party staffer, Brittany Higgins, later today. In February, Ms Higgins went public with allegations that she was raped by a former colleague in a ministerial office. A number of similar allegations followed sparking national rallies denouncing the treatment of women in Australian politics. Meriana Johnsen speaks to the ABC's Georgia Hitch at Parliament House in Canberra.