Senator hits back at claims
A COALITION senator has hit back at explosive claims levelled in a newly published book.
Senator Susan McDonald labelled assertions in Niki Savva’s new book ‘Bulldozed’, which examines the downfall of the Scott Morrison government, ‘disappointing’.
The claims concern the contentious Religious Discrimination Act, which caused LNP Senator Andrew Bragg to defy the then Prime Minister Morrison and state that he would cross the floor and vote down the bill. Ms Savva’s book goes further, stating that three other senators privately planned to vote against the bill, including Senator McDonald.
The North Queensland Senator took to Facebook on Wednesday to refute the claims publicly after being made aware of them by another Senat o r mentioned in the passage of the book.
“One of the other senators who was named sent me a screenshot of the passage and I was really quite shocked and horrified,” Ms McDonald said.
“It was the first time I’d heard such a claim existed which was why I went straight onto social media and put a statement out so that I could correct the record.”
Ms McDonald stated that she had not been contacted by Ms Savva during the book’s creation.
Ms Savva’s latest book cites a number of named and unnamed sources within and close to the government being studied, but Senator McDonald said whichever source Ms Savva relied on this time had got it wrong.
A spokeswoman for Scribe, the publisher of Ms Savva’s book, said the matter had been dealt with privately between Ms Savva and Senator McDonald and did not answer questions about the sourcing of the book’s material.