After tearful displays and fighting talk on The Project and anywhere else that would give her a platform, Sarah Hanson-Young appears to have backed down in her fight against Senator David Leyonhjelm. In the documents outlining her Statement of Claim, Leyonhjelm says there is no mention of sexual harassment after all.

In a statement, he said:

For weeks now the country has endured relentless coverage of a tearful Senator Hanson-Young claiming I ‘slut-shamed’ her (her term, not mine) and that my behaviour amounted to workplace sexual harassment.