shifty and shady minister,

We all think it is not a matter of what she did but what she didn't do.

Ask Jen.

Mr uneducated,

Given that "On April 1, 2019, nine days after the alleged crime, Higgins told Reynolds she was raped in her office. The alleged victim declined to pursue police action and asked for privacy."

Please suggest what other appropriate action the senator could have taken? Otherwise, it is just more ignorant hot air.

shifty and shady minister,

She should have done what I would have done.

If I was the responsible Minister I would have reported the complaint to the AFP for investigation.

It's all about what is right and what is wrong.

If Reynolds chose not to report a crime against a member of the Parliamentary staff than she also chose to act unconscionably.

If she could not look after one of her own staff then how can we trust her to look after the citizens she swore to protect.

If the accuser won't make a complaint immediately, it is not up to anyone else to do it for her. This thread has been a load of crap. A couple of drunks have sex; the female decides some time later that she was raped. There is nothing in this all too familiar scenario to suggest women are a "Liberal Party Problem". Reynolds is incompetent at her job, but on this purely one person making a claim against another, she is blameless. The whole sorry episode, caused by the use of alcohol, has nothing to do with politics - particularly with Liberal party, as claimed by a nasty little Green loser, who should be putting his energy into his nasty little 8% party instead of whining about a party that has managed to win 8 of the last 10 elections.

You want to feel sorry for a woman in politics? Try the Liberal Member for Boothby, Nicolle Flint, greatly valued by the Liberal Party that is supposed to hate women, she has decided to stand down at the next election because of sexual harassment, by UNIDENTIFIED members of the public and hard-Left ABC radio presenter, Peter Goers. Though of course it would be all her fault, not the wonderful ABC's or Leftist lunatics who described her as a "shank" and a "prostitute". Goers didn't go that far, but he kept up with sarcastic, on-air criticism of her elegant, feminine appearance to suggest that she wasn't the bloody hard worker for her electorate that she was. She was first elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2019, much to the chagrin of the Left who the polls told the seat was a shoo-in for Green Labor. Guess who her tormentors were!

Sad thing is Linda Reynolds IS a good Defence Minister.

She understands the international policy and the military technology.

She's had more direct experience working in the military than any Defence Minister in living memory.

Making her a likely loss to a portfolio sorely needing military expertise.

See her CV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Reynolds#Military_career

"She served variously as an officer cadet, regional logistics officer, training development officer,

military instructor at the Army Command and Staff College, commanding officer of the

5th Combat Service Support Battalion, director of the Active Standby Staff Group,

project director at the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex,

strategy development director of Raytheon [mil tech] Australia,

director of the Accountability Model Implementation Project, and director of the

Army Strategic Reform Program.

She was adjutant general of the Army Reserve from 2012 to 2013.[1]

She was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross in the 2011 Australia Day Honours for

"outstanding achievement as the Director of Army Strategic Reform Program coordination".

[Reynolds rose to Brigadier rank in 2012].