As more evidence is revealed just the most basic foresight of a good leader would have led to some questions & if not then total ignorance. Either Scomo is lying & he knew or he is the most stupid & most ignorant leader in the world. I'm guessing both!
Last year when Four Corners gave notice of the Canberra Bubble story to the offices of the two ministers accused of misbehaviour towards women — Christian Porter and Alan Tudge — the program and the ABC were subjected to a campaign to try to shut the story down and to claim that it was not in the public interest.Representatives of ministers Tudge, Porter and Communications Minister Paul Fletcher emailed the story team, news management, ABC managing director David Anderson and, in one case, the board of the ABC.
The day our story was due to be broadcast, Anderson was grilled in a Senate Budget Estimates hearing by Liberal senators about whether it was in the public interest.
Anderson defended the program, as did ABC chair Ita Buttrose, when Communications Minister Paul Fletcher wrote to her to complain about the story.
Considering that response, it seems astonishing that no-one thought to brief the Prime Minister on the fact that there was another brewing scandal: the alleged rape of a staffer inside Parliament House.
Although journalists Samantha Maiden and Lisa Wilkinson spoke repeatedly with prime ministerial staff in the days before Brittany Higgins's allegations, the PM says his staff never told him.It also seems astonishing that the Prime Minister didn't think to ask — to demand to know — if there was anything else that he should know that might harm or embarrass his government after the Four Corners episode.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-23/brittany-higgins-sexual-assault-fourth-allegation-parliament/13178072
