Grace Tame calls it “making change, making history and above all making noise”. Brittany Higgins says her patience has run out, and she’s part of “a new wave of women who are just not copping it”.

Their joint appearance at the National Press Club added up to another political nightmare for Scott Morrison, playing at full volume to an enthusiastic, largely female audience. In the year since both women separately described the horror of their own proven or alleged sexual assaults, blaming abuse of power and demanding urgent change, their combined voices have resonated loudly through national politics – particularly among women.