Sure sounds like it.
“This week a whistleblower alleged that Coalition staffers were swapping videos of themselves engaging in sex acts in Parliament House, including on the desk of a female Coalition MP … [and] claimed that the building’s prayer room was often used for sex and sex workers had been invited into Parliament House by a former minister,” The Guardian reported on Tuesday, March 23, 2021.
The Australian parliament has been variously described as a “toxic male culture” and a “scandalous swamp.”
Apparently there are “videos of staffers engaging in sexual acts in Parliament House,” and European tabloids and their readers are eating it up.
The Prime Minister, a conservative, held a press conference on Tuesday, March 22, 2021, that the Washington Post called “disastrous” and headlined its story, “Facing fury over sex scandals, Australia’s leader fights tears – then retaliates in outburst at reporter.” Er, that doesn’t really fix the problem. A leadership and corporate culture expert quoted by the Post helpfully observed, “The fish rots from the head.”
And you thought America under Trump was a laughingstock … ?
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Picture: Artist’s conception of Australian parliamentary session