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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 station platform on Tuesday night.
Clutching a half-empty bottle of alcohol, the man dressed in a T-shirt, shorts, baseball cap and pair of thongs appeared to be slurring his words as he rambled and swayed while accosting the women.
'I want to make love to you – are you single?' he asked Ms Flint.
She 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.'
Nicolle Flint began filming the bizarre exchange after a man propositioned her and a group of women on Tuesday night
Ms Flint described how the man sexually harassed her and a group of friends
While it wasn't captured on camera, Ms Flint said she gave the man a piece of her mind.
'I stood up & told him to f*** off & stop harassing women,' she recalled.
She thanked an off-duty police officer who came to the women's rescue.
'Huge thanks to the lovely man who had just finished his shift at SAPOL HQ 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 and helped me report this to SAPOL,' Ms Flint wrote.
Ms Flint was inundated with messages of support after calling out Tuesday night's 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.
One man 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.
Others thanked Ms Flint for bringing attention to the man's behaviour.
In the video the man clutched a bottle of alcohol and slurred his words as he rambled and swayed while accosting Ms Flint and the women
'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.'
Ms Flint will re-contest her former seat Boothby in Adelaide's south at the next federal election in early 2025.
She cited sexism in Australian politics as a reason for not running at the last 2022 election.
The second-term MP and deputy whip was outspoken about problems facing women in parliament, calling out what she described as sexist 'rubbish' they too often faced.
Ms Flint fought back tears in parliament in 2021 as she recalled how she was viciously hounded, stalked and called a 'sl*t' and a prostitute on the campaign trail two years earlier during the 2019 election campaign.
'The safety of women in this place, of female staff and female MPs and senators should be above politics,' she said.
Nicolle Flint was inundated with messages of support after calling out Tuesday night's incident
'The need to change the culture of our parties and of this place should be above politics.'
In 2020, Ms Flint made headlines when she stripped down to just a garbage bag to to fight back against the 'rubbish' views, behaviour and policies women put up with.
It came ABC presenter and columnist Peter Goers made comments about Ms Flint's clothing after receiving a copy of a newsletter she sent out to her constituents.
'Nicolle wears pearl earrings and a pearly smile. She favours a vast wardrobe of blazers, coats and tight, black, ankle-freezing trousers and stiletto heels,' he wrote in a local newspaper.
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