Fake email claimed Beazley coup
MAY 28, 2003
OPPOSITION Leader Simon Crean demanded former leader Kim Beazley explain
an email purporting to show an imminent leadership challenge.
A spokesman for Mr Crean confirmed last night that at the meeting of the
two men earlier this month, the opposition leader asked Mr Beazley about
the email.
The email, on Mr Beazley's own parliamentary email letterhead, suggested
the former leader was about to launch a challenge to Mr Crean.
But Mr Crean's spokesman said both Mr Crean and Mr Beazley agreed the
email was fake.
"Mr Crean was of the view, as were senior staff, that the email was
a fake," he said.
"Kim denied the email and said he also thought it was fake."
The email had gone to a Labor staffer who brought it to the attention of
Mr Crean's office.
The meeting between Mr Crean and Mr Beazley followed a stand-off between
the two following comments in The Bulletin magazine by the former
leader.
Mr Crean has said that Mr Beazley had promised not to launch a leadership
challenge.
Mr Crean's spokesman said there were concerns about how the email was
faked.
There are suggestions a person accessed a computer used by Mr Beazley to
write the email.
Mr Beazley and Mr Crean have spoken several times since the meeting, and
Mr Beazley addressed Labor caucus yesterday .
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