Queensland MP Brittany Lauga tells 7NEWS of ‘indescribably tough’ period after alleged sexual assault

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A Queensland MP who alleges she was drugged and sexually assaulted has described the ordeal as “indescribably tough”. Brittany Lauga alleges she was victimised during a night out in Yeppoon in central Queensland in her electorate of Keppel on April 28. In her first television interview since the incident, she told 7 NEWS that the incident would not end her political career and her recent return to work was a welcome distraction from the ordeal. “It’s been a tough couple of weeks.

I still have a lot more in the tank and work to finish. “I’m determined not to let this get me down. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” Lauga, the state’s assistant health minister, said in a social media statement on May 4 that hospital tests revealed “the presence of drugs in my body which I did not take”. Those drugs “impacted me significantly,” she claimed. She declined to talk specifically about the night in question in the interview with 7NEWS on Tuesday.

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