AAP General News (Australia)
12-11-2003
Fed: Bartlett under mounting pressure to quit
Disgraced Australian Democrats leader ANDREW BARTLETT is under mounting pressure to
quit his position over a drunken assault on a government senator.
At least three of his Senate colleagues -- JOHN CHERRY, NATASHA STOTT DESPOJA and ANDREW
MURRAY -- want him to voluntarily quit the leadership.
Prominent South Australian Democrat SANDRA KANCK has also urged him to resign.
But Senator BARTLETT has dug in while his remaining colleagues watch nervously to see
how public opinion unfolds.
Senator BARTLETT has taken indefinite leave, but has not officially stood down since
he drunkenly manhandled 62-year-old Liberal senator JEANNIE FERRIS and verbally abused
her a week ago.
AAP RTV sal/wz/rca
KEYWORD: DEMOCRATS (CANBERRA)
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