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The Briefing … Michaelia Cash …
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Jobs and innovation minister Michaelia Cash has been forced to apologise after threatening to expose details of “rumours” involving young women working in opposition leader Bill Shorten’s office.
During an exchange with Labor Senator Doug Cameron in Senate estimates yesterday, Cash said she was “happy to sit here and name every young woman in Mr Shorten’s office over which rumours in this place abound”. Cash said gossip about the young staffers had been “circulating in this building now for many, many years”, and said she was ready to “start naming them”. Cash’s comments prompted an angry response from Labor Senate leader Penny Wong, who described them as “disgraceful and sexist”.
The Saturday Paper