Dear Editor,
Former Liberal staffer Terry Barnes’s partisan attempt to blame sexist abuse in Parliament House on my government’s hiring of young professionals as ministerial staffers simply doesn’t bear scrutiny.
His “cult of youth” theory certainly conflicts with the accounts of people like Lenore Taylor who, as a press gallery journalist in the 1990s, says young women shared lists of politicians whose offices weren’t safe to visit alone.
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