Anthony Albanese says Kimberley Kitching never complained of bullying to him and furore ‘not constructive’

Labor leader says it is a fact' that he never received a bullying complaint from Kitching before she died

The federal opposition leader, Anthony Albanese, says the late senator Kimberley Kitching never raised complaints of bullying with him as he labelled political debate about her death not constructive.

Reports have emerged about the stress Kitching had been under within her own party before her death from a suspected heart attack, with Labor senators Kristina Keneally, Penny Wong and Katy Gallagher named in media reports as having ostracised her.