The Liberal Party's federal president has vowed to implement a new code of conduct and dispute resolution process by the end of the year,just days after two high-profile sexual assault allegations renewed debate over the party's attitudes toward women.
But Nick Greiner said the allegations,reported byThe Sydney Morning Herald andThe Age,had little bearing on the reforms.
"We spent almost no time,I think no time on the two examples that some of the media has run,"Mr Greiner said in Canberra on Friday.
"They are not federal examples,they are historical and we have no knowledge of them."
Two party members,Chelsey Potter and Dhanya Mani,alleged on Tuesday that they were sexually assaulted while working for senior politicians. Both women say they raised the incidents with more senior party figures but were dismissed.
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Ms Potter,who worked for a federal minister,said another parliamentary staffer pinned her down and ripped off her underpants during a sitting week in Canberra in 2015,while Ms Mani,a one-time staffer to the NSW speaker,said a fellow Liberal came to her house the same year and forced himself on her while masturbating.
For legal reasons,The Sydney Morning Herald andThe Age have chosen not to identify the two men,who strongly deny the allegations.
Liberal Party veteran Kathryn Greiner - who is separated from Mr Greiner but still married to the president - called for immediate reform following the allegations,which the Morrison government said were"deeply disturbing"and should be referred to the police.