Lawyer Kathleen Foley loses spot on the Victorian Bar Council days after 4 Corners episode
The Victorian Bar’s governing council says Kathleen Foley losing her bid for re-election is not related to her appearance on ABC.
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A Melbourne lawyer who was highly critical of Attorney-General Christian Porter in an ABC program has lost her bid for re-election on the Victorian Bar’s governing council.
Barrister Kathleen Foley featured on the 4 Corners program on Monday night where she described Mr Porter as “deeply sexist”.
On Wednesday night she was unsuccessful in her bid to keep her spot on the Victorian Bar Council, however the Council said it was unrelated to her appearance on the ABC.
Ms Foley studied at the University of Western Australia with Mr Porter and later worked as a WA state solicitor when Mr Porter was a WA Crown prosecutor.
The 4 Corners program aired allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour by Mr Porter, claims which he has denied.
Ms Foley was interviewed about Mr Porter and said: “For all of that time I’ve known him to be someone who was, in my opinion, based on what I saw, deeply sexist and actually misogynist in his treatment of women, in the way he spoke about women.”
Attorney-General Christian Porter said he “categorically rejected” allegations about him kissing a woman in a Canberra bar.
He said he was considering legal action over the “totally false” allegations, as he disputed former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull’s account of a conversation they had about his behaviour in 2017.
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