Liberal senator Sarah Henderson says she has contacted the parliamentary workplace support service over an alleged comment from Labor minister Murray Watt, but declined to reveal what it was.
The incident occurred as the Senate debated a Coalition push to ban Nazi symbols in public, after neo-Nazis performed the Sieg Heil salute on the steps of Victorian parliament on Saturday.
It was revealed this week that Senator Henderson has been personally urging Victorian Liberal leader John Pessutto not to expel MP Moira Deeming, who helped organise a gender rally that she claims was “gatecrashed” by the neo-Nazi group.
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