Coalition frontbencher Bridget McKenzie said Labor senator Glenn Sterle had failed to apologise after telling her “I will cut you up”.
Sterle and McKenzie were sitting on a Senate inquiry panel earlier this week when they had a dispute and Sterle invited a policy debate, saying “I will cut you up”.
When McKenzie questioned the comment, Sterle said he had meant metaphorically, and should have said “carve you up” instead, before going on to call McKenzie an “ignoramus”.
McKenzie, who is the opposition infrastructure and transport spokeswoman, said this morning she was yet to receive an apology, but had been flooded with support from constituents.
“I want more women in parliament. I want more women in the transport industry, but the way the transport union sponsored senators speak to women in public, threatening to glass them, you can only imagine what they are saying and doing elsewhere,” McKenzie told Sky News.
McKenzie said the footage spoke for itself, and any further action against Sterle was a matter for the Labor Party. She said at the time of the comment she would raise it with Senate leaders Katy Gallagher and Penny Wong.
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