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‘I’d never say that’: Lambie hits back at homophobia accusation – NEWS.com.au
‘I’d never say that’: Lambie hits back at homophobia accusation
Outspoken senator Jacqui Lambie has hit back at an accusation she used a homophobic slur during a rant at Qantas staff in March.
The Age reported on Thursday morning that Ms Lambie had threatened staff members with “pussy power” and referred to Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce, who is gay, with a homophobic slur.
“Your CEO is a poof,” she was reported as saying in the incident on March 25 in the Chairman’s Lounge in Melbourne.
But in a Twitter thread on Friday, the Tasmanian firebrand said she…
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