Article 6XJSZ ‘Let’s see you dance on the table’: Fatima Payman reports senior male parliamentary colleague over comments

‘Let’s see you dance on the table’: Fatima Payman reports senior male parliamentary colleague over comments

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Josh Butler
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Senator makes complaint about colleague's behaviour at function, which she alleges was sexual and racial in nature

Senator Fatima Payman has reported a male parliamentary colleague to the parliament's workplace complaints service, after claiming she was subjected to inappropriate comments at a function.

The ABC's Triple J Hack program reported on Wednesday that Payman, the former Labor senator who now sits as an independent, had made a complaint about a senior colleague who had had too many drinks" and made comments such as let's get some wine into you and see you dance on the table".

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