A 57-year-old man is charged over the alleged assault of the Member for Whitsunday Jason Costigan at the weekend.
A 57-year-old man has been charged over the alleged assault of Member for Whitsunday Jason Costigan at the weekend.
Police charged the man with common assault after the State Member for Whitsunday was punched in the back while having dinner at a pub in Proserpine on Friday night. North Queensland politician Jason Costigan said he believed an assault against him may have been partly fuelled by a now-withdrawn sexual harassment complaint from last year.
"I think a lot of this comes back to the crap that was said about me early last year, and I'll be blunt, I'll tell you that some mud sticks," he said. Jason Costigan Whitsunday MP with two girls talking about World Bikini Day in Airlie Beach in July 2019.
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