Australian Federal Attorney General Christian Porter holds a press conference on the 3rd, denying his alleged sexual assault more than 30 years ago. [AFP=연합뉴스]
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Christian Porter (pictured), the current Australian Federal Attorney General, is controversial in Australia as a party to the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl 33 years ago.
According to Reuters and AFP, Minister Porter held a press conference in Perth, Western Australia on the 3rd, and said, “That never happened.”
Earlier, Australian media reported that one of the ministers of the current cabinet raped a 16-year-old woman in 1988, and that she made an extreme choice in June of last year. The identity of the perpetrator was not specified, but at a press conference that day, Minister Porter admitted that he was the protagonist of the revelation.
However, he refuted that the information contained in the report was not at all true. “The only thing I know about this charge is what I read in the media,” said Secretary Porter. “The details were not delivered to me.” He said he was a victim of the media, and that he had no sex with the woman.
Responding to some requests for resignation, Secretary Porter refused to resign, saying, “If I resign, it will set a precedent that any public official can be removed by simply raising suspicion.
The NSW state police previously announced that “the case is closed due to a lack of evidence that can be accepted in court.”
Meanwhile, the Morrison government recently revealed that Britney Higgins, who served as a media chief of Defense Secretary Linda Reynolds, had been raped at the Capitol in March 2019, and other women have also publicized the facts of the victims and have been caught up in a series of sexual assault scandals.
Reporter Dayoung Kim [email protected] 
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