Ex-Liberal senator David Van’s use of his official social media accounts to message women – using terms like “babe” and “hon” – raised alarm in Scott Morrison’s office in 2021.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is facing off against Victorian counterpart John Pesutto as they back opposing candidates to replace senator David Van.
Parliament still has a poisonous legacy for women,but enduring change is now locked in. There is no going back.
Writing to Victorian Liberal Party president Greg Mirabella to resign,Van said he was deeply distressed he had not been afforded procedural fairness over misconduct claims.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton confirmed he had been made aware of a third allegation of sexual harassment against the embattled Liberal senator,a day after booting him from the Liberal party room.
Anthony Albanese and the Labor leadership could turn the blowtorch on Dutton next week,but the more important point is that Australians were badly served by the Coalition’s determination to reopen old wounds.
Senator David Van has denied a claim by Amanda Stoker that he inappropriately touched her at a function at Parliament House three years ago.
The former Queensland LNP senator joins ex-charities commissioner Gary Johns at the Samuel Griffith Society’s Voice to parliament Symposium next month.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison doesn’t want the national debate over abortion rights occurring in the US to take place in Australia,saying it was an issue that could “deeply divide this country.”
Scott Morrison linked the Sydney railway dispute to Labor politics as he intensified his attack against the federal opposition in the lead-up to the election.
A Greens and Liberal senator have clashed during Senate Estimates after the government was accused of “colonising” the Aboriginal flag.