Entire housing subdivisions and gleaming skyscrapers have been built in less time than it is taking the Senate to deal with the wrongdoing of one if its members.

The Senate’s failure to pass groundbreaking legislation is just the latest example of women being betrayed by the very institutions they reach out to for help.

When retaliation occurs, which happens often, according to experts, the onus is on the whistleblower to connect the dots and prove that it was related to their speaking up, writes Kathleen Finlay.