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Brittany Higgins has met with Prime Minister Scott Morrison for the first time since she made public claims she was raped by a colleague inside Parliament House more than two years ago.
Speaking after the meeting at the Commonwealth Parliamentary offices in Sydney on Friday afternoon, Ms Higgins said the discussion between the pair was robust .
The ex-Liberal staffer met Mr Morrison to discuss her plans to make workplaces safer for employees. The Prime Minister acknowledged that the system has let me down and we were in agreement that there needs to be reform, Ms Higgins told reporters. It was a difficult conversation to have on a personal level. It was very hard to come here. We discussed that there needs to be better safeguards for staffers where there are power dynamic issues between parliamentarians and individual staffers.
Brittany Higgins will meet with Prime Minister Scott Morrison to discuss her plans to make workplaces safer for employees.
The former Liberal staffer, who claims she was raped by a colleague in Parliament House in 2019, is due to meet Mr Morrison at the Commonwealth Parliamentary offices in Sydney on Friday afternoon.
She has already met with Labor leader Anthony Albanese and was pictured leaving his offices alongside her boyfriend, former journalist David Sharaz.
Former political staffer Brittany Higgins (centre) alongside boyfriend David Sharaz (right)
The former Liberal staffer, who claims she was raped by a colleague in Parliament House in 2019, is due to meet Mr Morrison at the Commonwealth Parliamentary offices in Sydney on Friday afternoon
Brittany Higgins has revealed her six demands to help stamp out sexual assault, harassment and workplace exploitation in federal politics.
The former Liberal staffer, who claims she was raped by a colleague in Parliament House in 2019, wants to meet Scott Morrison next week to discuss her proposals.
The prime minister has previously said he would be happy to meet Ms Higgins but despite numerous discussions his staff are yet to confirm a date.
Brittany Higgins has revealed six demands to help stamp out sexual assault and harassment in federal politics
Brittany Higgins six demands
Set up an independent complaints body
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Former parliamentary staffer Brittany Higgins, whose allegations that she was raped in Parliament House prompted national debate about Canberra’s workplace culture, has signed a major non-fiction book deal worth an estimated $250,000.
The contract was agreed with publishers Penguin Random House Australia after a three-way auction involving Allen & Unwin and Hachette last month. Her publisher will be Melbourne-based non-fiction specialist Alison Urquhart.
Brittany Higgins speaks at a rally on March 4.
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The memoir will take in Higgins’ account of her alleged rape in the office of then-defence industry minister Linda Reynolds in March 2019 and her role in the subsequent movement for greater protection for women in Canberra, and workplaces more generally.