Aus Assistant Minister resigns following allegations he used sites to meet women
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Nationals MP Andrew Broad has resigned as assistant minister to the Deputy Prime Minister, after New Idea published allegations Mr Broad used a dating website to meet younger women while he was away on work trips.
The New Idea article quotes a woman called Amy, who says she is almost 20 years younger than the federal MP.
She claims she had dinner with him at a Hong Kong restaurant.
The Member for Mallee is married and told the magazine he believes the person making the allegation may have engaged in criminal activity.
Following the publication of the article, Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Nationals Michael McCormack said given the nature of the allegations, it was appropriate Mr Broad resigned from the ministry.
"Mr Broad will continue as an effective and hardworking Member for Mallee, a role he has capably held since 2013," Mr McCormack said in a statement.
Mr Broad was approached directly for a response, but was yet to provide one.
"I have been advised that the person making the allegation may have engaged in criminal activity," he said in a statement to New Idea.
"This matter has been reported to the Australian Federal Police and I will not be making any further comment."
Mr Broad was named an assistant minister in August as part of the reshuffle that followed Scott Morrison becoming Prime Minister.
Read more at https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-17/andrew-broad-resigns-new-idea-allegations-woman-website/10626592
tbf most of New Idea's articles are made up garbage about celebrities being pregnant when they aren't
tbf the only bad part of this is him being married, unless I'm missing something?
Aside from that, he was also the the first - and most vocal - Nationals MP to call for former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce to resign when the latter was caught having an affair with a staffer. Also, the alleged dinner happened on a work-related trip, so it’s quite possibly the case that Andrew Broad spent a hefty sum of taxpayer money to pick up chicks 20 years younger than him while on official duties.
Doesn’t help that he’s also one of the more-hardcore Christian MPs in the Parliament. Him resigning as Assistant Minister is the Coalition doing damage control, given all the shit that has happened of recent.
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