The fallout from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy Australia Day protests is persevering with, with the Opposition and the Govt squabbling about what took place in the guide-up to the demonstrations. One of the Prime Minister's media advisers, Tony Hodges, resigned following it was revealed he told Unions ACT secretary Kim Sattler that Mr Abbott was at the Lobby Restaurant in Canberra.
Aboriginal protesters sparked a protection scare following they descended on the restaurant, and Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Mr Abbott had to be hustled by way of the crowd.
In a assertion, Ms Sattler states Mr Hodges instructed her where Mr Abbott was.
Tony Hodges spoke to me by phone on Thursday afternoon. He informed me what Tony Abbott had said - that people should 'move on' from the Tent Embassy, she said in the declaration.
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Unions ACT secretary Kim Sattler
He also said that Abbott would be at an occasion at the Lobby that afternoon.
Other individuals realized that presently as Tony Abbott had been spotted at the Lobby previously by other men and women strolling again from the cafe up coming door.
I simply handed on that info to the organisers at the Embassy in scenario they wished to make a declaration to the press.
On Sunday, Ms Sattler utilized her Fb web page to condemn Mr Abbott, describing him as a typical bar space brawler who commences a struggle and then disappears like a coward when it is in entire swing - then brags about his role afterwards .
Ms Gillard claims her type of events are constant with the declaration place out by Ms Sattler.
Ms Sattler put out a declaration yesterday which is consistent with the occasions as I comprehend them to have occurred, she explained.
Ms Sattler has obviously shaped the view that she has not been precisely reported in modern day media and as I am advised she has place out a second declaration right now which once once more accords with the views that I maintain.
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Previous press adviser Tony Hodges (provided)
But the manager of opposition enterprise, Christopher Pyne, has told Sky Reports that Ms Sattler's assertion contradicts the Prime Minister's model of events.
We are obtaining two conflicting stories on the a single hand, the Prime Minister is expressing none of this had anything to do with her place of work, that Mr Abbott's views ended up conveyed correctly, he said.
In reality, Kim Sattler is expressing Mr Abbott's views had been conveyed in a completely untrue way. Now the Prime Minister cannot just cant just sweep this under the table.
This was a breach of safety by the Prime Minister's office.
'Grubby politics'
The Federal Coalition says the Australian Federal Police require to get to the bottom of what occurred.
Mr Abbott has labelled the involvement of the Prime Minister's Business office in the protests as grubby politics.
Sadly the Prime Minister's Workplace selected to try out to exploit what was taking place down the street for their possess political purposes and that's very low and which is why we need a full investigation, he said.
On Saturday, Aboriginal Tent Embassy spokesman Michael Anderson said before the protest, Ms Sattler advised him the Prime Minister's workplace wished to converse to him.
All I can say is that somebody set us up - they set the Prime Minister up, they set Abbott up, and they realized that you know, thoughts had been jogging and feelings had been jogging large below and I assume they realized that response would occur, he stated.
Video clip: Gillard confirms source of leak (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
(ABC News)
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