SLIPPER FORCED TO APOLOGISE FOR THREATENING TO DEPORT INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
Canberra: Australia’s former federal speaker Peter Slipper has been ordered to apologise to two international students after he suggested he might try to have them deported for failing to pay his legal fees. In findings published online, the Legal Profession Board of Tasmania has upheld one complaint made against Mr Slipper after the Hobart barrister texted the complainant’s uncle with what the board characterised as “an indirect threat”.
The students had engaged Mr Slipper for legal services after they were subject to a restraining order.