Updated.
March 03, 2020 06: 43:32
It’s taken more than 40 years for Elizabeth Reid to speak openly about the time the governor-general attempted to “construct” with her.
When she was worked with by Gough Whitlam in April 1973, Ms Reid discovered herself in a task that had actually never existed anywhere else in the world: females’s advisor to a prime minister.
For almost three years, she worked side-by-side with Whitlam to establish ground-breaking policy around kid assistance, domestic violence refuges, rape crisis centres and the single mom’s benefit.
She also worked carefully with the governor-general Sir John Kerr– a guy whose tradition was defined by his choice to sack Whitlam as prime minister on November 11, 1975.
Now, for the first time, Ms Reid has actually detailed brand-new claims of an undesirable sexual advance made by the (then) governor-general when she was a consultant to Whitlam.
Ms Reid spoke about the incident throughout an interview covering her early profession in politics recorded for the brand-new ABC podcast series, The Eleventh
Her most major allegation worries a time when the governor-general, who had actually been drinking, tried to “construct” with her.
They were in a tight space, and he pushed his body up versus hers.
” I indicate, he was pawing me … with his hands and his body.”
” I had to leave here to disentangle myself from it,” she said.
Reid said she noticeably remembered “a shuffle”, and feeling his underwears through his shirt, “due to the fact that I r