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June 19, 2010… I think it is a good thing to have done it,” he says now. ”Mind you, I think the attack on me in the Senate was one consequence of that so you shouldn’t deceive yourself into thinking that it’s all an easy road. Some people get very upset about such things.”
Some people, indeed; Liberal senator Bill Heffernan in particular. In 2002, Heffernan used the protection of parliamentary privilege to unleash an extraordinary attack on Kirby and van Vloten, quoting from a fabricated document to accuse the justice of using Commonwealth cars to pick up male prostitutes in Sydney. The senator was forced to resign his parliamentary secretary’s post when the fraud was exposed, and he publicly apologised, but not before Kirby and van Vloten had endured a week of public humiliation.