In recent weeks, media coverage out of Australia's national Parliament has been dominated by the unedifying spectacle of political point-scoring over the leaked phone messages of former political staffer and victim of alleged rape, Brittany Higgins. Allegations of sexual harassment and assault by Liberal senator David Van from current and former senators Lidia Thorpe and Amanda Stoker quickly followed. These disturbing developments have led many to wonder whether the toxic workplace culture within Parliament House has improved at all, despite the groundbreaking Jenkins review and the implementation of a raft of the review's recommendations.

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