Julia Banks, former member parliament in Australia claimed that she was inappropriately touched by a sitting cabinet minister in 2017 at the Parliament House.
Ms Banks, who made the allegation in a memoir, said the male MP moved his hand up her leg during a parliamentary vote session before moving away.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s office said in a statement they weren’t previously aware of the allegation. Behaviour of such kind was “completely inappropriate,” they said.
In an excerpt from her memoir, Ms Banks did not identify the man, who she said was still in cabinet. She said she and other government MPs had been waiting around for a night-time parliament vote, when the minister came and sat next to her and put his hand “just above my knee and edged slowly and deliberately to my inner thigh and then further up my leg”.
