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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's well.

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Speaker 2: Extraordinary scenes all around Australia. Yesterday. It's estimated that almost

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Speaker 2: one hundred thousand women and men marched across the country

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Speaker 2: in forty registered rallies, non political rallies. They were quite

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Speaker 2: determined that they're not politically aligned to present a petition

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Speaker 2: to Parliament. And for everyone who thinks, oh, what is

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Speaker 2: it they want, he's actually what are the four immediate

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Speaker 2: actions that they were asking for in their petition. Full

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Speaker 2: independent investigations into all cases of gendered violence and timely

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Speaker 2: referrals to appropriate authorities, Full public accountability for findings. Fully

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Speaker 2: implement the fifty five recommendations in the Australian Human Rights

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Speaker 2: Commission's Respect at Work Report of the National Inquiry into

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Speaker 2: Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces twenty twenty. So a study

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Speaker 2: was done, a survey into all of that inquiry. Let's

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Speaker 2: get that stuff implemented. Lift public funding for gendered violence

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Speaker 2: prevention to the world's best practice. We should absolutely have

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Speaker 2: that the enactment of a federal gener under Equality Act

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Speaker 2: to promote gender equality. It should include a gender equality

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Speaker 2: audit of parliamentary practices. So there are very specific things

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Speaker 2: that our Parliament can act on, and our law makers

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Speaker 2: can act on. But the community swell yesterday of women

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Speaker 2: who were just sick of not being seen and not

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Speaker 2: being heard, and of living in a culture of sexism,

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Speaker 2: of misogyny, of abuse that when you complain about that,

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Speaker 2: you're not believed. The case goes nowhere. People are just

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Speaker 2: sick of that.

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Speaker 3: We accept that.

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Speaker 2: This is how society is. You saw the signs on

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Speaker 2: the news last night. I'm sure of people going, are

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Speaker 2: we still protesting about this? Are we still doing this?

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Speaker 2: How outrageous. At the heart of all this yesterday was

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Speaker 2: an incredibly brave woman, Brittany Higgins. She's the woman who

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Speaker 2: was raped in the offices of Parliament House. How extraordinary

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Speaker 2: for her to stand in front of all those people

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Speaker 2: in Cambery yesterday, about forty thousand people and make a

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Speaker 2: speak and it was electrifying.

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Speaker 4: We're all here today not because we want to be here,

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Speaker 4: but because we have to be here. We fundamentally recognize

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Speaker 4: the system is broken, the glass ceiling is still in place,

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Speaker 4: and there are significant failings in the power structures within

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Speaker 4: our institutions. We are here because it's unfathomable that we

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Speaker 4: are still having to fight this same stale, tired fight.

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Speaker 4: I was raped inside Parliament House by a colleague, and

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Speaker 4: for so long it felt like the people around me

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Speaker 4: only cared because of where it happened and what it

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Speaker 4: might mean for them. It was so confusing because these

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Speaker 4: people were my idols. I had dedicated my life to them.

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Speaker 4: They were my social network, my colleagues, and my family,

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Speaker 4: and suddenly they'd treated me differently. I wasn't a person

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Speaker 4: who'd just gone through a life changing traumatic event. I

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Speaker 4: was a political problem. I read the news updates every

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Speaker 4: day at five am because I was waking up to

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Speaker 4: new information about my own sexual assault through the media,

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Speaker 4: details that were never disclosed to me by my employer's

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Speaker 4: information that would have helped me answer questions that have

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Speaker 4: haunted me for years.

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Speaker 5: Brittney Higgins there, it's so really what should have happened. Brittany,

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Speaker 5: who was drunk at the time, ends up. She thinks

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Speaker 5: she's going home, and she's with a senior colleague and

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Speaker 5: a mentor.

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Speaker 3: I would imagine they've hooked up. That's I don't know beforehand.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't change it, not at all.

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying that.

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Speaker 5: But she ends up going back to Parliament House, wakes up,

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Speaker 5: finds that she's being raped, complains and then has to.

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Speaker 3: Face her boss.

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Speaker 2: Well, as we heard in.

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Speaker 3: The in the very office, that she was raped.

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Speaker 5: So that's right, in an ideal world, that should have

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Speaker 5: gone to the police and then the police should have

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Speaker 5: arrested the person and then that would be the end

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Speaker 5: of it.

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Speaker 2: Well, they don't even have an HR department, as we've discovered.

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Speaker 2: It's all so partisan. So what happened is that she

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Speaker 2: had to refer this to her own boss and it

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Speaker 2: instantly became a political story rather than a human story.

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Speaker 2: What's happened to Britney. What's the best practice we can

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Speaker 2: do for her? And how did this happen in our

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Speaker 2: offices here? And punish the man involved, that's what would happen.

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Speaker 2: So it's appalling that.

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Speaker 3: This has gone Now then nothing didn't go any further.

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Speaker 2: No, and anyway, here we are with yesterday's huge, huge

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Speaker 2: rally about that, plus allegations against Christian porter Ow, the

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Speaker 2: highest lawmaker we have in our country. A whole lot

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Speaker 2: of workplaces, a whole lot of women saying this has

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Speaker 2: been happening for years in my own workplace, and I'm

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Speaker 2: so sick of it.

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Speaker 3: But it doesn't happen here. And this is a radio station.

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Speaker 2: How do you know it doesn't happen here.

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Speaker 5: Well, I haven't seen, you know, in the time I've

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Speaker 5: worked in radio for a long time, I've never really

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Speaker 5: seen anything.

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Speaker 3: But I've said it. You said people get messy at

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Speaker 3: Christmas parties.

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Speaker 2: But having said that, I'm sure if we went back

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Speaker 2: and spoke to all the women and maybe men who've

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Speaker 2: worked in this organization, there'd be stories of yes. But

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Speaker 2: I didn't want to come forward because I didn't want

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Speaker 2: to risk my job. I didn't want to be the troublemaker.

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Speaker 2: I knew i'd how hard the process would be. That's

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Speaker 2: the thing. It's so hard. And so all these women

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Speaker 2: and men yesterday saying hey, Scott Morrison, people who marched

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Speaker 2: on Canberra, please come out and talk to us, and

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Speaker 2: I'm sure he would have been booed. Whatever goes with

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Speaker 2: the king. He's an elected official. He's not Beyonce. He's

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Speaker 2: an elected official. He said he didn't want to come

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Speaker 2: out to meet them. He might have a private meeting

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Speaker 2: one on one in the offices of Parliament House. I said, no,

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Speaker 2: we want you to face the crowd. He said no,

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Speaker 2: and then he said these incredible words in Parliament.

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Speaker 1: It is good and right, mister Speaker, that so many

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Speaker 1: are able to gather here in this way, whether in

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Speaker 1: our capital or elsewhere, and to do so peacefully, to

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Speaker 1: express their concerns and their very genuine and real frustrations.

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Speaker 1: This is a vibrant liberal democracy, mister speaker. Not far

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Speaker 1: from here, such marches even now are being met with bullets.

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Speaker 1: But not in this country, mister speaker, not here in

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Speaker 1: this country.

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Speaker 2: Bloody hell, bloody you know, not just read the country.

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Speaker 3: He's trying to go with that. But yeah, that's wow.

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Speaker 2: You know, why don't we say to him? In other

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Speaker 2: countries leaders are lynched and are hauled away and go

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Speaker 2: to the salt mines in Siberia, why don't we throw

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Speaker 2: that in his face every day?

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Speaker 4: Wow?

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Speaker 3: Couldn't been so easy if scom I just went out

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Speaker 3: and addressed the crowd. Why wouldn't you do that?

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Speaker 2: You know, in an ideal world, he would say, I

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Speaker 2: hear you, I see you. I will work towards making

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Speaker 2: this better for you. I will do my best.

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Speaker 3: Yikes.

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Speaker 2: At least we don't get shot

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Speaker 4: With Jones and Amanda