A female MP from Australia has alleged that she was sexually assaulted in the Parliament House there. MP Lydia Thorpe addresses Parliament on Thursday. He said- Powerful people made sexual comments on me, touched me wrongly. This place is not at all good for women to work.
Thorpe’s statement in the Australian Parliament comes just a day after Australian MP David Van accused him of sexual harassment on Wednesday. After this, the pressure was made on him to withdraw the charges.
Lydia Thorpe explained that sexual assault can mean different things to everyone. He said- I used to be scared even to get out of the office. Earlier I used to open the door a little to see if anyone was outside. Whenever I used to enter the building, I used to keep someone or the other with me.
Lydia also said that there are many other people like her with whom this happened, but they did not come forward for fear of losing their careers. At the same time, former MP Amanda Stoker has also supported Lydia. She told me that David wan touched me the wrong way twice 3 years ago
Sexual harassment allegations made by Lydia Thorpe have been dismissed by Liberal Party MP David Wann. He said- Whatever Lydia has said about me, it is absolutely wrong. There should be an inquiry into his allegations.
At the same time, in Australia, Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton has thrown David out of the party room. This means that he will not sit with the party’s MPs in Parliament.
Australia’s parliament has been surrounded by sexual harassment controversies since 2021. In 2021, an Australian government employee accused her colleague, Bruce Lehrman, of raping her in 2019 after drinking alcohol on the office sofa.
After this, a government investigation revealed that there were many cases of sexual harassment and harassment registered in the Parliament of Australia. One in three people working in Parliament said that such an incident has happened to them. According to the report of the Sydney Morning Herald, the case of Lydia Thorpe has again brought Parliament into the dark phase of 2021.