Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

Can I just say that, like all of us in this chamber, I am absolutely devastated by what Brittany has gone through. Brittany was a valued member of my team for more than a year and a half.

Senator Watt, in October 2019 a journalist made a media inquiry that involved Brittany and her previous employment. When Brittany discussed this matter with my chief of staff and I, she made it very clear that the matter had been dealt with at the time, seven months previously. She did not want to discuss the matter and she did not want the matter taken any further. Her focus was on her distress at the journalist's inquiry and ensuring that at all times her own privacy was respected. We respected her wishes for privacy. But I made it very clear to her that, if she needed anything, she could always come to us.