COSTELLO PUSHES FORWARD
Incredible footage has shown Nine chairman and former federal treasurer Peter Costello appearing to knock a journalist to the ground at Canberra Airport. The Australian reports that its journalist, Liam Mendes, was asking questions of Costello about Nine’s recent sexual harassment scandal involving former news director Darren Wick when Costello “shoulder-barged [Mendes and] knocked him flying”. Costello says that Mendes was walking backwards and tripped on an advertising placard, the ABC reports, which the Oz calls an “extraordinary denial”. You can watch the footage and make up your own mind.
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