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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Maroosha Muzaffar

Australia’s first hijab-wearing senator says older colleague told her to drink wine and ‘dance on table’

Australian senator Fatima Payman has filed a formal complaint accusing a male colleague of making sexually suggestive and racially insensitive remarks to her at a work-related social function.

“Let’s get some wine into you and see you dance on the table,” she says the colleague, who was allegedly intoxicated, told her. The remark, she said, felt inappropriate and targeted for her as a Muslim woman who did not drink.

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