Lib MP Jamie Briggs Dragged After Photo Of Female ‘Victim’ Leaks To Press

It wouldn’t be easy bringing a harrassment claim against your employer. 

It’d be even harder if your boss is a sitting Liberal frontbencher.

Add in the fact said Minister sent a photo of you around to his colleagues after receiving your complaint? Well, that’s just shithouse.

Yet embattled former minister for Cities and the Built Environment Jamie Briggs did just that. Of course, because this is an #Auspol story, you best believe those photos were leaked to the media, constituting a pretty substantial breach of privacy.

Unions representing the still-unnamed staffer say the eventual publication of a (pixelated) photo in News Limited papers is flat-out “disgraceful.”

The ABC reports the Community and Public Sector Union’s Michael Tull said “it’s never easy for a person who works in the public sector to raise inappropriate behaviour, especially when a politician is involved, which is why we need genuine protections for people who do make complaints.” 

FWIW, details of her university degree, age and title were also printed, ’cause obviously. Briggs himself is copping a bollocking from some heavyhitters in the political sphere too, adding credence to the idea that he really dun goofed on this one. 



It’s not yet known who exactly squirreled the pictures out, but they’re just as culpable as Briggs for this whole deal. Mix this one up with the latest news about Peter Dutton’s misinformation about Abyan, and it’s been a shit opening to 2016 for the Turnbull government. Still, it could be worse: they could have had their privacy breached after bringing a legitimate harassment claim to light. 

Story: ABC.
Photo: Stefan Postles / Getty / Twitter. 

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