{"id":11428,"date":"2018-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/politician-won-t-apologise-to-sa-senator-over-shagging-comments-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T00:00:00","slug":"politician-won-t-apologise-to-sa-senator-over-shagging-comments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/politician-won-t-apologise-to-sa-senator-over-shagging-comments-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Politician Won\u2019t Apologise To SA Senator Over \u201cShagging\u201d Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>NSW Senator David Leyonhjelm admits he told Sarah Hanson-Young to \u201cstop shagging men\u201d, but won\u2019t apologise for the comments.<\/h3>\n<p>Ms Hanson-Young outlined the incident &#8212; which included Mr Leyonhjelm telling her to \u201cf*** off\u201d &#8212; in a series of tweets on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Greens Senator wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cEarlier today in the Senate chamber, during a motion about violence against women &amp; rape, Senator Leyonhjelm yelled across the chamber at me \u201cyou should stop shagging men, Sarah\u201d.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI confronted Senator Leyonhjelm about his comment to me. Shocked at his brazen attitude, I called him a creep. He told me to \u201cF*ck Off\u201d.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI informed my party leader who spoke to both Senator Leyonhjelm and the Senate President. Senator Leyonhjelm refused to apologise.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Senator Leyonhjelm says his \u201cshagging\u201d comment was a response to Hanson-Young interjecting \u201calong the lines of all men being rapists\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cI responded by suggesting that if this was the case she should stop shagging men. I did not yell at her,\u201d Senator Leyonhjelm said.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cFollowing the division, Senator Hanson-Young approached me and called me a creep. I told her to f*** off.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI am prepared to rephrase my comments. I strongly urge Senator Hanson-Young to continue shagging men as she pleases.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;He&#39;s a creep&#39; &#8211; Sarah Hanson-Young hits back amid ugly Senate exchange with David Leyonhjelm <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/auspol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#auspol<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G6HDfZvfx2\">https:\/\/t.co\/G6HDfZvfx2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hxnQ4acCgA\">pic.twitter.com\/hxnQ4acCgA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Australian (@australian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/australian\/status\/1012268158390923264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSW Senator David Leyonhjelm admits he told Sarah Hanson-Young to \u201cstop shagging men\u201d, but won\u2019t apologise for the comments. Ms Hanson-Young outlined the incident &#8212; which included Mr Leyonhjelm telling her to \u201cf*** off\u201d &#8212; in a series of tweets on Thursday. The Greens Senator wrote: \u201cEarlier today in the Senate chamber, during a motion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-11428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Politician Won\u2019t Apologise To SA Senator Over \u201cShagging\u201d Comments - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/politician-won-t-apologise-to-sa-senator-over-shagging-comments-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Politician Won\u2019t Apologise To SA Senator Over \u201cShagging\u201d Comments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NSW Senator David Leyonhjelm admits he told Sarah Hanson-Young to \u201cstop shagging men\u201d, but won\u2019t apologise for the comments. 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