A former federal MP has shared disturbing video of himself being sexually harassed while out with friends.
Former Liberal politician Nicolle Flint began filming the bizarre exchange after a man proposed to her and a group of women on a tram platform in Adelaide on Tuesday night.
With a bottle of alcohol in his hand, the man appeared to slur his words as he wandered and waved as he addressed the women.
Ms Flint took to Instagram hours later to denounce the behaviour.
“I’m posting this to show what women put up with on public transport,” she wrote.
“He came to us drinking his alcoholic drink while hitting the tram stop with an empty glass bottle.
“(I) wondered if he was going to crush it and attack us.
“I stood up and told him to hurry up and 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?’ Mrs. Flint wrote
Ms Flint described how the man walked away and put down his empty bottle.
‘And then, after more wandering, he 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 aid.
‘Huge thanks to the lovely man who had just finished his shift at SAPOL headquarters (which I edited from this video) who walked onto the platform and saw this part of the interaction and came and sat next to me to make sure that I It went well and I stayed with me until the tram arrived and helped me report this to SAPOL,” Ms Flint wrote.
Ms Flint will re-contest her former seat at 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 sympathized with her after the shocking sexual harassment incident.
In the video, the man held a bottle of alcohol and slurred words as he wandered and waved while addressing Ms Flint and the women.
“Absolutely unacceptable makes me so angry that this is happening,” one woman wrote.
Another added: ‘Simply awful. It’s no wonder that we women sometimes feel unsafe. I kept the SAPOL number after I had to report a man touching me from behind at the Mall in broad daylight last year,” another woman wrote.
That’s shameful. I think the only positive ‘if there is one’ was that he wasn’t aggressive. But that still doesn’t excuse this kind of behavior,” one male follower wrote.
I thanked Mrs. Flint for drawing attention to the man’s behavior.
“Imagine something like this happening to a group of teenage girls in the middle of the day,” one person 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. Thank you for bringing this to our attention Nicole.’