Banks is right: Scott Morrison is the gaslighter-in-chief. We’ve got the proof

For a prime minister who claims to be committed to making real change to address what is universally agreed to be a toxic culture in politics toward women, Scott Morrison’s record of achievement is very limited.

This is the leader who recently welcomed back to the deputy prime ministership accused sexual harasser Barnaby Joyce; who was wholly incurious about whether sexual assault allegations against Christian Porter are true (and uninterested in any inquiry to determine their truth); whose NDIS minister referred to alleged sexual assault victim Brittany Higgins as a “lying cow”; and whose male cabinet colleagues, we learn this week from former MP Julia Banks, included another sexual harasser among their ranks, so far unidentified.