The legal community has hung their heads in shame over the past few days, throwing their hands up in the air and proclaiming that Dyson Heydon’s disgusting pattern of sexual harassment and abuse was ‘the worst-kept secret in the legal profession.’

This is despite the fact that the secret was actually kept for countless years while the former High Court Justice was afforded a permission structure to continually engage in harassment over a number of years.

Whilst countless lawyers and judges have been tripping over themselves in the media to declare that ‘this was the worst-kept secret,’ and ‘his vile behaviour is something that we all knew about,’ it seems like a slightly bizarre comment from people who were actively complicit in keeping that secret.

The man nicknamed ‘Dirty Dyson’ during his time at Oxford was appointed into an all-male court, filled with reliable fellas who clearly knew how to keep a secret.

The power dynamics which prevented victims from speaking out must have been also been at play for some of the most powerful men in the land, due to the utter radio silence from Heydon’s colleagues, one of whom was the literal Chief Justice.

For all those who coldly mutter ‘we all knew,’ there are countless more who have asked the question ‘why did you all decide to do what comes across as a massive High Court pinky promise to never report or prevent this sickening pattern of abuse?’

The confusion continues across the land. Must be something in the water in Canberra.

No more to come.