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June 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Cabinet minister Bill Shorten says the opposition must “come clean” on any knowledge it had of a sexual harassment claim involving federal parliamentary speaker Peter Slipper before the claim was lodged by a male staffer in April.
Documents filed by lawyers for Mr Slipper and the commonwealth on Tuesday say staffer James Ashby secretly met with Queensland Liberal National Party (LNP) shadow minister Mark McArdle on February 2 to discuss his plans.
The documents also say Mr Ashby “unlawfully” sent extracts of Mr Slipper’s diary to former federal minister Mal Brough, who is seeking LNP preselection to contest Mr Slipper’s Sunshine Coast seat.
“I do think the opposition need to explain if any members of the opposition or the Liberal Party have played some sort of untoward role in this whole serious allegation and process,” Mr Shorten told the ABC on Tuesday.
“I think they should just do Australia a favour and come clean about what may or may not have happened and their involvement.”
Mr Ashby is suing Mr Slipper and the commonwealth, claiming his former boss made unwelcome advances and sent him explicit text messages.
Mr Slipper and the commonwealth claim Mr Ashby’s case is “vexatious” and was brought to damage the Speaker’s reputation and political career.
Mr Shorten said the opposition was “very quick” to jump on the case after News Limited reporter Steve Lewis broke the story.
“The opposition was very quick to comment when this court matter first appeared,” he said, adding there appeared to be “more to this than meets the eye”.
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