Hello darkness, my old friend

I’ve come to talk with you again

Because a vision softly creeping

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

And the vision that was planted in my brain

Still remains

Within the sound of silence,

Simon & Garfunkel

Two days on, deafening silence. Not a word from the corporate media and the national broadcasters. Despite the creeping visions now planted in so many brains, despite the high public interest in this story.

Allegations of senior Liberal party figures cavorting in the Parliament prayer room with sex workers. Allegations sourced directly from a document, an investigation by the government-aligned law firm Sparke Helmore.

Yet another raid by the police on a whistleblower. Still silence.

The document from the law firm Sparke Helmore was leaked to YouTube investigator Jordan Shanks, aka FriendlyJordies, who published it and produced a compelling Youtube video on the scandal which had clearly been vetted by lawyers.

This was no whisper from an anonymous source, no dodgy “drop” by a politician’s media adviser, this was a verifiable document. None of the parties implicated: MP Tim Wilson, former defence minister Christopher Pyne and others, or for that matter the investigating law firm Sparke Helmore, have rebutted the story.

Questions had been put by Shanks to the Department of Finance and the various players involved. Proper media and legal protocols had been followed.

Although the social media furore which sent #prayerroom rocketing to...

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