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May 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Senior Liberal senator Bill Heffernan has been accused of hitting and making homophobic remarks to a Liberal staffer at a branch meeting on the NSW Central Coast.
Ray Carter, 67, filed a formal complaint to the Liberal Party after Senator Heffernan allegedly hit him at a branch meeting at the Breakers Country Club in Terrigal on May 3 and accused him of being gay.
In a statutory declaration from Mr Carter and two other people who were at the meeting, it’s alleged Senator Heffernan struck Mr Carter so hard he was knocked off balance.
News Ltd paper The Sunday Telegraph says it’s alleged that later, when he was alone, the senator told Mr Carter: “I didn’t know you were a poofter.”
A NSW police spokesman said the matter was being investigated.
“An alleged assault was reported to police on May 15,” the spokesman told AAP on Sunday.
“That matter has been referred to Brisbane Waters detectives for investigation.”
Mr Carter is the electorate officer for NSW Energy Minister Chris Hartcher.
He is currently suspended while being investigated over allegations about a donation scandal.
Independent Senator Nick Xenophon said he didn’t believe the alleged incident was cause for a new parliamentary code of conduct.
“I think the whole debate about parliamentary standards actually shows some systemic problems in the way that parliament has been working,” he said.
“And simply having an integrity commissioner, or a new code of conduct, or another layer of bureaucracy won’t necessarily help parliamentary standards …
“I’m wondering if it will distract us from the main game, getting on with the efficient running of the parliament.”
Other scandals involving suspended Labor MP Craig Thomson and Speaker Peter Slipper have prompted Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to say they are open to the idea of a code of conduct, which was flagged by a parliamentary privileges committee in November.
Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten declined to discuss the specifics of the incident but said he was interested in Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s reaction given his harsh criticism of embattled Labor MP Craig Thomson and the Speaker Peter Slipper.
“Mr Abbott has certainly rushed to judgment when it comes to other people but not (those) from his own party,” Mr Shorten told ABC TV.
“I think the challenge here is will he rush to judgment again when it’s his own party? Or will he take the more measured Labor approach of saying that you have to go through a process?”
NSW senator Arthur Sinodinos, who oversaw the Breakers Country Club meeting, says Mr Carter should have approached him at the time if there was an altercation.
“I presided over the meeting that night and I did not see any alleged incident occur and I wasn’t informed of any such incident,” he told ABC Radio on Sunday.
Senator Sinodinos, the state president of the NSW Liberal Party, said no-one approached him on the night to say anything untoward had happened.
“I’m very distressed that some weeks afterwards this story has come forward.
“People should have approached me at the time if there was an issue.”
Prime Minister Julia Gillard refused to comment on the report after touching down in Chicago for a major NATO summit in the United States.
She was quizzed as to whether the allegations had further darkened the cloud hanging over the federal parliament.
“I’m not intending, given particularly we’ve been in transit for the best part of 24 hours, to be talking to you today about matters involving Senator Heffernan,” the prime minister told reporters.
Comment was being sought from Senator Heffernan.
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