00:00It was half way through Sam Hibbons first term in parliament.
00:06In 2016, Harriet was a La Trobe University student doing a parliamentary internship
00:11working with Mr Hibbons.
00:13I spent the whole semester in pretty regular contact with Sam and I met with him a bunch
00:21of times.
00:22In November 2016, after attending one of Mr Hibbons' community meetings, Harriet says
00:27he invited her for a drink.
00:29At the end of the drink, I thought he was coming in to embrace me, but he tried to kiss
00:36me on the lips.
00:38Harriet says she turned her head away.
00:41He pulled me in close and whispered in my ear, I shouldn't, and I said no, and then
00:50he kind of released, like walked away.
00:55Harriet reported the incident to her university in 2016.
00:59Emars from La Trobe Uni to Harriet say the parliament's internship team said he would
01:03not be assigned any interns in the future, however he says he was two years later.
01:08I was 23, I was an unpaid student intern and he was a member of parliament.
01:15Harriet lodged a formal complaint with the parliament in 2018, during which she was represented
01:20by a La Trobe University staff member.
01:23I wasn't physically at the meeting, it happened without me.
01:27Emars show the parliament met with Mr Hibbons on the 1st of June 2018.
01:32An emars from that day states Mr Hibbons recalled and acknowledged the events contained in Harriet's
01:37allegations.
01:38It said he agreed to stop taking part in the parliament's internship program.
01:43In a statement, Mr Hibbons told the ABC he absolutely disputed the sequence and detail
01:48of the events, and said the version of events the ABC put to him was not raised in 2018.
01:54Early this month, Mr Hibbons left the Greens after having an affair with a staffer.
01:59I felt angry and frustrated because he said that it was a human mistake and that it was
02:05a lapse of judgement, but I just don't accept that that is what it is.
02:11Mr Hibbons' resignation, the day after the ABC put questions to him, paves the way for
02:16a by-election in Paran.
02:18The Liberals and the Greens have confirmed they'll contest the seat, but Labor's yet
02:22to decide whether it will field a candidate.
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