Call for oppn to reveal Ashby dealings

May 5th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Former Howard government minister Mal Brough had an interest in meeting a former adviser to suspended Speaker and independent MP Peter Slipper to give him advice about how to pursue sexual harassment claims, a senior cabinet minister says.

Mr Brough has admitted to The Australian newspaper that he met James Ashby three times this year and told him to go to the police and seek legal advice in the weeks before he filed a claim against his boss.

Federal Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese says that while he “certainly” empathised with someone pursuing a sexual harassment complaint, the fact that Mr Brough was seeking Liberal preselection in Mr Slipper’s Queensland Sunshine Coast seat of Fisher compromised him.

“Mr Brough, of course has an interest … as the candidate for Fisher,” he told reporters in Sydney on Saturday.

“He’s not Neville nobody here, he’s the person who wants Peter Slipper’s seat in the federal parliament.”

Mr Albanese said the coalition needed to reveal its dealings with Mr Ashby.

“We need to know what was the involvement with the coalition. Bit by bit, they say: ‘Nothing to do with us’,” he said.

He added that Leader of Opposition Business Christopher Pyne had changed his story to admit he had contacted Mr Ashby.