Is reality slowly dawning on the Prime Minister? Has his wilful and egregious myopia towards all matters cultural and ideological finally caught up with him? And will he now change his behaviour or is it already too late?

Whichever way Scott Morrison now turns, he is culturally outflanked. On the completely unconnected but poisonously entwined issues of the Brittany Higgins allegations of being raped inside Parliament House and the Christian Porter alleged 1988 rape of a debating friend, the Prime Minister turns to the morality locker and finds it is bare.