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Pauline Hanson, Clive Palmer, Barnaby Joyce and Craig Kelly.

Palmer, Hanson, Joyce lead the list of least liked politicians

The inclusion of the Deputy Prime Minister poses a problem for the federal government.

  • David Crowe

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Thirty per cent of Australian women had experienced unwanted touching according to the ABS survey.

Half of all Australian women sexually harassed: survey

Inappropriate comments about women’s bodies or sex life were the most common form of sexual harassment experienced, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

  • Jewel Topsfield
Brittany Higgins speaks at the March 4 Justice protest outside of Parliament House in Canberra.

A year of reckoning over the treatment of women, so what hope is there for politics?

After a year of painful conversations about the treatment of women and traumatic disclosures of appalling incidents, the federal government has a blueprint to fix things.

  • Katina Curtis
Former Liberal staffer Rachelle Miller and Education Minister Alan Tudge.

Grotty week for PM as Parliament’s noxious culture is laid bare

On issues relating to women, Morrison walks among landmines. Rachelle Miller’s latest claims against Alan Tudge show how dangerously and unexpectedly one can detonate.

  • Michelle Grattan
Rachelle Miller and Alan Tudge arriving at the Midwinter Ball together in 2017.

Alan Tudge leaves cabinet after former adviser alleges their affair was abusive

Education Minister Alan Tudge has stepped aside cabinet while an investigation is underway into his former adviser Rachelle Miller’s claims their affair became physically abusive.

  • Katina Curtis
Please Explain co-host Nathanael Cooper.

Backlash as government fails to move on damning sex discrimination review

Today on Please Explain, federal politics reporter Katina Curtis joins Nathanael Cooper to look at the recommendations from the review into workplace culture at parliament house.

  • Nathanael Cooper
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Hundreds of people responded to a review of the workplace culture at Parliament House.

‘I have carried the shame’: Anonymous stories of sexual assault in Parliament

The Jenkins review of the workplace culture of Parliament House spoke to more than 500 people. These are some of their stories.

  • Angus Livingston
The privileges committee investigated Christian Porter’s use of a trust to contribute funds to his defamation action against the ABC, but The Guardian got it before it was made public.

Leak of parliamentary report into Christian Porter’s hidden donors to be investigated

Parliament’s privileges committee cleared Mr Porter over his register of members interests, but vowed to investigate how The Guardian had details of the report before it was released.

  • Nick Bonyhady
The report into workplace culture and sexual harassment in Parliament House has been handed down and Scott Morrison says it reflects decades of unacceptable behaviour that needs to be dealt with.

We share ownership of the problem and the solution: PM

The report into workplace culture and sexual harassment in Parliament House has been handed down and Scott Morrison says it reflects decades of unacceptable behaviour that needs to be dealt with.

Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins has released her recommendations for workplace change at federal Parliament.

One in three parliamentary staffers say they’ve been sexually harassed

A review of Federal Parliament’s workplace culture has recommended setting up a code of conduct for politicians and staffers and a review of alcohol use.

  • Katina Curtis

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