Shadow attorney general says Katy Gallagher has questions to answer about her knowledge of the claim before it became public
Gallagher hasin June 2021 that “no one had any knowledge” before stories about the allegation came out on 15 February 2021, despite text messages to Higgins from her partner, David Sharaz, suggested Gallagher was aware four days before.
“I was responding to an assertion that was being made by minister Reynolds at the time that we had known about this for weeks and had made a decision to weaponise it,” she said. “That is not true, it was never true.”On Sunday Cash dismissed this as “a very flimsy explanation which just does not sit with the indignation that she showed during that exchange” during Estimates on 4 June 2021.
“This is what happens when you weaponise a rape allegation, there are consequences for that,” Cash told Sky News.
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