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An Australian lawmaker on June 15 alleged that she was sexually "assaulted" by a fellow senator in Parliament House, stating the building was "not a safe place" for women to work...
In a tearful Senate address, the Independent legislator said she had been subjected to "sexual comments", cornered in a stairwell, "inappropriately touched" and "propositioned" by "powerful men"..
On June 14, she accused a fellow senator of "sexually assaulting" her, before being forced to withdraw the remark under threat of parliamentary sanction...
With hands trembling as he read from a printed statement, Mr. Van accused her of "bringing the Senate into disrepute" and "cowering under the umbrella of parliamentary privilege"...
A former political aide alleged that a fellow conservative staff raped her on a couch in a Cabinet Minister's parliamentary office following a night of heavy drinking in March 2019..
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