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May 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Former Liberal cabinet minister Mal Brough has admitted secretly meeting James Ashby three times this year and telling him to go to police and to take legal action over allegations of sexual harassment and misuse of taxi vouchers by suspended Speaker Peter Slipper.
Mr Brough yesterday revealed he advised Mr Ashby, a former Slipper staffer, and even organised his legal advice in the weeks before Mr Ashby filed his legal claim against his then boss, The Australian newspaper reports.
The court action led Mr Slipper to step down as Speaker. The Gillard government suspects a link to the opposition.
Mr Brough is seeking pre-selection in Mr Slipper’s Queensland seat of Fisher at the next federal election. He rejected talk that Mr Ashby, with the backing of senior coalition figures, set a trap for Mr Slipper, who quit the coalition and took up the speakership in November last year.
An indigenous affairs minister in the Howard government, Mr Brough lost his seat in the 2007 election. He revealed his role in Mr Ashby’s court action as Labor stepped up its bid to tie Tony Abbott and Liberal frontbencher Christopher Pyne into setting up the Speaker.
Mr Slipper’s alleged misuse of taxi dockets is the subject of a federal police investigation. He has denied all the allegations.
Mr Brough said Mr Ashby had sought him out for help on the advice of local party official Valerie Bradford. He said he told Mr Ashby: “You had better know that what you are saying is true and beyond any doubt.
“And, if it is, my strong advice to you is to go to the AFP with your claims of criminality and you had better get yourself legal advice regarding the civil matter.”
Mr Brough denies ever speaking to any opposition MPs, their staffers or the LNP about Mr Ashby and his allegations.
“I did not speak to Pyne, or Pyne’s office, or to Abbott or anybody like that,” he said.
Mr Brough waged a two-year campaign in the LNP branch to oust Mr Slipper as candidate at the next election.
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