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After the revelation of the alleged rape of a staffer in a minister’s office, and its gross and abysmal mishandling; after casually dismissed rape accusations levelled against a minister; after yet more details of a deeply toxic and misogynist workplace culture in politics; after gender issues dominating politics for the first third of the year, the verdict arrived this week: nothing has changed.
An accused sexual harasser is once again deputy prime minister. He joins an industry minister accused of rape, who discontinued his defamation suit against the media outlet that revealed the allegations, and a minister who described a woman allegedly raped in her office as “a lying cow”, along with a prime minister who lied to Parliament about the investigation into his own office’s handling of the rape allegation.
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AFL helped Seven triumph on Thursday the network easily won the night in main channels and total people. But Thursday night is not exactly a glittering prize.
The most watched non-news, non-sport program wasn’t even in prime time: it was the 5.30-6pm section of Seven’s
The Chase Australia, with 909,000 viewers. Not even the AFL 781,000 could attract more viewers.
Low numbers across the board, it appears. The 717,000 viewership for
MasterChef on Ten was not nearly sizeable enough, while on the ABC
Foreign Correspondent on deepfakes (with Hamish Macdonald as host) attracted 627,000 viewers, and
Q+A straight after, with Macdonald again at the helm, drew only 439,000.
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