Channel Nine’s political editor Chris Uhlmann has been accused of an “egregious breach” of press gallery rules by revealing on television and on Twitter the contents of a text conversation on Michaelia Cash’s mobile phone.
A Nine camera operator got a close-up shot of the jobs minister texting on her mobile phone to staffers about how to avoid media scrutiny as she entered an estimates committee.
Uhlmann included the shot with the conversation clearly visible in his report for Nine News and posted the image on Twitter, but it has since been deleted.
The image came after the Liberal Senator had become embroiled in a political storm over comments she made about the women in Bill Shorten’s office.
She was accused of trying to hide from the cameras when her arrival at the committee hearing was obscured by a whiteboard positioned by parliamentary security guards.
A day earlier she had threatened to name young women in Shorten’s office “about which rumours in this place abound” in retaliation for ongoing questions about her staff and the Australian Workers’ Union raids.
Source:
theguardian
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