Julia Banks is no sympathetic martyr of the Me Too cause, but her new book does well to highlight the Liberal Party’s role in enabling and covering up abuse.
Former MP Julia Banks has dropped her long-promised bucket on the federal Liberal Party and the results, so far, have been much as you’d expect.
Three narratives dominate the media’s reporting on her new book, Power Play: support for or criticism of Banks herself, along political lines; the guessing game about the owner of the “wandering hand”; and the role played by the dark eminence of Scott Morrison in Banks’ story of betrayal.
Banks isn’t a sympathetic martyr of the Me Too cause. She speaks like the corporate lawyer she was; clear, direct, unemotional. The minute calculation of what she will and won’t choose to reveal has been thought through. This gives her target — the party — room for a pincer attack on her motivations and credibility.
