Who is peter slipper mp

Mr Slipper now lives in Hobart , working as a lawyer and an honorary consul of Brazil in Tasmania. The findings related to Mr Slipper — published late last month — was one of four complaints upheld by the Legal Profession Board of Tasmania this year.

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News Ticker Breaking news Seventy per cent of eligible Queenslanders are now double-vaccinated, meaning some restrictions on interstate arrivals from hotspots will be eased. Key points: Peter Slipper resigned as Federal Parliament's speaker in amid allegations he had sexually harassed a staff member He is now a lawyer and diplomat working from Hobart The Legal Profession Board of Tasmania has upheld one complaint against Mr Slipper after he made an "indirect threat" to have two international students deported.

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With job gains and losses. It's inevitable. An Australian judge has dismissed a sexual harassment case against Peter Slipper , the former Speaker of the Australian parliament who was forced to step down in October over the allegations. The case brought by a former aide was the spark for a fiery speech in which the prime minister, Julia Gillard, accused the country's opposition leader of misogyny.

Justice Steve Rares of the federal court said the case against Slipper was an abuse of process, launched for political reasons and designed to cause him "significant public, reputational and political damage". The claims had been brought by to court by Slipper's former parliamentary staffer James Ashby, who had accused him of harassment, including that Slipper had made unwanted sexual comments towards Ashby and encouraged him to shower with the door open while staying at Slipper's flat.

During the court case it was revealed that Slipper had sent Ashby vulgar text messages in which he described female genitalia as looking like "a mussel removed from its shell". Salty cunts in brine! On the day of Gillard's now famous misogyny speech, the opposition leader, Tony Abbott, used the text messages to accuse the prime minister of effectively being as bad as Slipper if she did not sack him from his job running parliament. A visibly furious Gillard rounded on Abbott: "I say to the leader of the opposition I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man.

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