Julia Banks says she felt 'devastated' when Scott Morrison became new PM

Former Liberal MP says party members tried to ‘silence’ her with an offer to go to New York for a three-month UN secondment

Julia Banks said she felt “devastated” when Scott Morrison emerged as the new prime minister and saw attempts to send her to New York for a three-month secondment as an attempt by her party to silence her.

In an interview with the Australian Women’s Weekly, the member for Chisholm said she moved to the crossbench after the leadership spill as she believed it would be “disingenuous” to stay.

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