A former federal MP has shared disturbing video of being sexually harassed while out with friends.
Former Liberal politician Nicolle Flint began filming the bizarre exchange after a man propositioned her and a group of women on an Adelaide tram platform on Tuesday night.
Clutching a bottle of alcohol, the man appeared to be slurring his words as he rambled and swayed while accosting the women.
Ms Flint took to Instagram hours later to call out the behaviour.
‘I’m posting this to show what women put up with on public transport,’ she wrote.
‘He walked up to us drinking his alco-pop while banging an empty glass bottle against the tram stop.
‘(I) wondered if he was going to smash it & attack us.
‘I stood up & told him to f*** off & stop harassing women.’
Ms Flint described how the man sexually harassed her and the group of women. ‘I want to make love to you. Are you single?’ Ms Flint wrote
Ms Flint described how the man walked off and put down his empty bottle.
‘& then after more rambling said ‘I want to make love to you. Are you single?’, Ms Flint wrote.
In her Instagram post Ms Flint thanked an off duty SA police officer who came to her assistance.
‘Huge thanks to the lovely man who had just finished his shift at SAPOL HQ (who I’ve edited out of this video) who walked onto the platform & saw this part of the interaction & came & sat next to me to make sure I was ok & stayed with me until the tram arrived & helped me report this to SAPOL,’ Ms Flint wrote.
Ms Flint will re-contest her former seat in the next federal election.
She cited sexism in Australian political life as a reason for not running in the 2022 election.
Ms Flint’s Instagram followers sympathised with her after the shocking sexual harassment incident.
‘Absolutely unacceptable makes me so cross that this is happening,’ one woman wrote.
Another added: ‘Just awful. It’s no wonder we women feel unsafe at times. I have SAPOLs number saved after having to report a guy touching me from behind in the Mall in broad daylight last year,’ another woman wrote.
‘That’s’ disgraceful. I guess the only positive ‘if there is one’ was that he wasn’t aggressive. But that’s still no excuse for that type of behaviour,’ a male follower wrote.
Sothanked Ms Flint for bringing attention to the man’s behaviour.
‘Imagine s**t like this happening in the middle of the day to a group of teenage girls,’ one wrote
‘Why do grown men think it is appropriate to approach young women in public, it is not! It makes them feel scared and unsafe. Welcome to my daughter’s life. Thanks for highlighting this Nicole.’
