Deputy opposition leader Sussan Ley said Jo Tarnawsky’s allegations of being shunted aside as the defence minister’s chief of staff were “extremely serious”.
Deputy opposition leader Sussan Ley says Defence Minister Richard Marles should resign if he is found to have breached the ministerial code of conduct by ousting his chief of staff after she raised bullying allegations against her colleagues.
Ley, the shadow minister for women, said the allegations were “extremely serious” and she felt for Tarnawsky, who grew emotional at a press conference in Parliament House on Thursday in which she claimed she had been “bullied out” of a job she loved.on Friday, “will be tested in the fullness of time but the consequences for any minister breaching the ministerial code of conduct must be resignation.”updated the code when he entered government in June 2022.
His spokeswoman disputed unspecified parts of Tarnawsky’s “assertions and recollections” in a statement. Like Marles, Albanese and other government MPs the spokeswoman said her response was limited because of the spectre of legal proceedings.Tarnawsky alleged Albanese’s chief of staff, Tim Gartrell, told her in June that she would not be able to return to Marles’ office and she was seconded to a lesser job within the broader ministerial staff for several months.
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