Politics by Samantha Maiden COMMENT If history is any guide, the Prime Minister s response to Brittany Higgins shocking account of sexual assault at Parliament House will be open and shut. He will urge her to take the matter to the police - which she did at the time - and perhaps suggest that is the beginning and the end of the matter? But is it? Or, do political parties owe the people that work for them - in this case a 24-year-old young woman - a greater duty of care if they are sexually assaulted at work? For Brittany Higgins, it was the sight of the Prime Minister standing on a podium with Australian of the Year Grace Tame, a survivor of sexual assault that hardened her resolve to speak.