SHY actively supported her mate who beat his wife:

"Federal Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young wrote a reference attesting to the "good character" of a long-time friend and lobbyist who slapped his wife and avoided a conviction in a Canberra court this week.

The man was charged with common assault in December last year after an incident at his home with his wife."

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sarah-hanson-young-wrote-court-reference-for-friend-charged-after-he-slapped-wife-20200305-p5479n.html

This is a classic case of do what I say, not what I do.. What hypocrisy.

The Greens/regressives have always had no standard for themselves and another for conservatives. They went on for weeks about how Tony Abbott was supposed to have punched the air in anger at university about 50 years ago. Notice how many of the virtue signallers fly around the globe telling others not to.

Is SHY a fit and proper person?
Most definitely not in my perception ! I'd like to see her succeed in business before I change my mind about her ! Anyone can make it by hanging off the Public apron.

Shadow,

She looks pretty fit to me.

There's quite a difference between a slap and a beating - and indeed between a couple having a fight (who've subsequently reconciled) and ongoing domestic abuse. Of course that doesn't justify the former.

What do you think she should have done or said?

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runner,
AIUI what Tony Abbott was criticised for was punching the wall inches away from someone's head, which was seen as intimidation. I hope you agree that (whether or not it was his intention at the time) intimidation is unacceptable behaviour.

Come on Aiden. From what we see of lefties being prepared to tell any lie to further their cause, what is to say that Abbott ever punched a wall.

I can't stand the woman, but all sorts of really bad people do supply courts with references from an acquaintance, friend or colleague, vouching for their 'good character' prior to an offence. Nothing new or unusual. These references are pretty vague, and are of a as-he-was-known-to-me nature.

If you are asking if this puts SHY in a bad light, I have to say no. Despite her being one of the most irritating and stupid people in politics, she is human, and she would have found it very hard to refuse to provide a reference for a friend.

Note that alcohol had been consumed by both parties in the dispute; and perhaps SHY knows something about the wife they we and the court do not.

The real villain in this affair is the the Sydney Morning Herald, doing a bit of virtue signalling on the domestic violence front. They've thrown one of their own under a bus to do so.