Police in Australia have launched an investigation following a complaint by Queensland MP Brittany Lauga that she was drugged and sexually assaulted.
The Assistant Minister for Health says she was attacked on a night out in her constituency of Yeppoon.
She says this could have happened to anyone and tragically it does happen to many of them.
The incident follows protests that have taken place in response to recent violence against women.
Lauga went to a police station and then to the hospital on the 28th of April.
Queensland Police Service confirmed officers were investigating a sexual assault complaint regarding an incident in Yeppoon on Sunday.
Lauga was reportedly contacted by other women who said they were drugged on the same evening.
Lauga has been in parliament for nearly a decade and was first elected to the seat of Keppel in 2015.
Australia has witnessed a spate of high-profile gender-based violence in recent weeks.
In April, an attacker stabbed six people to death in a Sydney shopping centre.
Five of the victims were women, and the New South Wales police commissioner told Australia's ABC News that it was "obvious" he focused on harming women.
A woman has been killed on average every four days in the country so far this year.
Source: BBC
