The New Liberals leader and barrister Victor Kline has announced that members of the political party will work alongside an experienced criminal barrister in launching a private legal case against Christian Porter on behalf of the alleged rape victim and for “every single woman whom ‘the Honourable’ swinging dicks have humiliated”.
CW: Rape, sexual assault and suicide.
After reading the newly publicly available dossier detailing historic rape allegations against the former attorney-general, Victor Kline and party member for Robertson, Vania Holt, have announced that they have launched a private legal case. Both have extensive experience in this space, having left prosecutor roles in favour of politics.
While Mr Kline will not run the legal action – opting instead to stay apart so that he could continue commenting on the allegations – Ms Holt will be taking on the role of instructing solicitor, assisted by new law graduate Eric Zhang. They will work with criminal barrister Mark Higgins and senior sex crimes detective Susan Campbell.
“For those who say we are prosecuting [Mr] Porter for political gain, be assured we are doing it for [AB] and for the justice of the situation, which screams out for it. And for every single woman whom ‘the Honourable’ swinging dicks have humiliated and abused inside and outside of Parliament,” Mr Kline tweeted recently.
The woman at the centre of the allegations – known as AB to the courts at request of her family – took her life last year after withdrawing a statement made to police. The dossier in full was recently released by the Federal Court following the conclusion of legal action launched against Christian Porter’s barrister, Sue Chrysanthou.
