Newly independent senator David Van is staring down calls to quit federal politics following accusations of sexual harassment, but will take leave and miss the final week of sitting before the winter break.
on Saturday citing a “wholesale disregard for due process and natural justice in relation to allegations made against me” and denied all allegations against him.Van’s spokesman said the senator planned to return to parliament after the five-week winter break, which begins on Friday, and hopes a Parliamentary Workplace Support Service inquiry will be able to help clear his name.Van cannot be forced to quit the parliament – he must choose to resign.
This masthead has been told the federal government does not plan to pursue the opposition over the allegations made against Van when parliament resumes. “I wasn’t aware of any specific allegations at all, but as always in this place [Parliament House], and the media would be well aware of this, there are rumours from time to time about certain individuals ... I wasn’t aware of the Amanda Stoker allegation,” she told the ABC’s Insiders program.
McKenzie said she disagreed with fellow Nationals frontbencher Barnaby Joyce that Thorpe should not have made her allegations against Van in the Senate chamber.
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