Craig McLachlan has said that any inappropriate touching

"could have been accidental."

Stressing that "horseplay" and "pranks" happened regularly
backstage between members of the cast.

He said he often hugged and kissed fellow performers. A
practice he said was "commonplace" in show business.

He denied his words or actions ever had a sexual meaning,
connotation, or ambition.

However, staff members tell a different story, including
a male actor who claims he was bullied and intimidated
by Mr McLachlan.

The magistrate also found the witnesses believable but
stuck to the letter of the law as applicable at that
time.

McLachlan as a result was acquited of the charges.
Perhaps the lesson to be learned here is - what may
be considered "horseplay" "pranks" by some - can be
considered as "inappropriate" by others. And unless
given consent - there should be no excuse to indulge
in that sort of behaviour no matter how "commonplace"
it may be in the business.

For example, a young 22 year old female sound technician
on The Rocky Horror Show has told about McLachlan
asking her to fix his microphone and come to his
dressing room to do it. When she arrived McLachlan was
sitting on a chair totally naked. She walked out of the
room. Other incidents were also described.

I think that McLachlan was indeed fortunate to get
a Magistrate who stuck to the letter of the law as it
existed at that time.

However, I trust that in future he must re-think his
own behaviour.

A little about the magistrate, Belinda Wallington, who presided over the McLachlan trial:
* she was the same magistrate who sent Pell to trial. And we know how that finally played out. Do I need to remind of the 7 nil outcome?
* she had been on various radio shows BEFORE the Pell trial praising Milligan (who you'll recall was the journalist behind the Pell accusations) but refused to recuse herself in regards to Pell.
* she belongs to a group called SistersInCrime - a group female lawyers. A bio of her describes how she fell in love with crime fiction while "working in a feminist collective at a women’s refuge". Feminist collective!!

That MacLachlan was found not guilty by such a women demonstrates how innocent he was. But to maintain her feminist standing in the collective, she couldn't just let him go. She needed to make gratuitous remakes showing she strongly sided with the complainants. But even with that level of bias she wasn't able to find him guilty of even one charge.

We also need to remember the role of the Victoria Police in this. They interceded in the defamation case to help the ABC by laying 13 criminal charges against him. None of the charges stood. All not guilty. What sort of shoddy policing is that? This after being humiliated over Pell.
There is a section of the Victorian Police who are so anti-male that anything with a cock is endangered. As if its not bad enough that people have to live in the Socialist Republic of Victoria, they also have to deal with the Feminist Gestapo.

The MacLachlan story showed the ABC 'reporters' 'interviewing' the so-called victims. But it wasn't an interview. The reporters were actively telling the 'interviewees' what to say. The ABC is out of control and is a threat to good governance.

Three women complained about MacLachlan's actions during the 2014 Rocky Horror reboot. They were all so traumatised by his actions that, when he was again given the role of Frank-N-Furter in the 2017 reboot, they all applied to be on the show. Yes, obviously very traumatised! (That's sarcasm folks). None got a part. Then and only then did they start complaining of what they say happened.

This was a jihad by feminist SJWs to find Australia's Weinstein. They didn't much care about the facts or the lives destroyed and they will be protected by the collective from the consequences of their despicable crimes.

Anyone who has read Kundera's "The Joke" will see the soft totalitarianism that we are slowly, or perhaps not so slowly, descending into. It never ends well.

Jail lying women. Jail the people who persecuted an innocent George Pell. They are still out there, plotting and planning to ruin men's lives with the aid and encouragement of the Left cancel culture.

New allegations of harassment and bullying against
Craig McLachlan have been revealed in a court
document.

Two actors in The Rocky Horror Show, including a male,
(Tim Maddren, who played Brad, in The Rocky Horror Show),
and two guest stars on the Doctor Blake Mysteries have made
fresh allegations of harassment.

It will be interesting to see if McLachlan's
will continue to sue the press for defamation. A case that
is yet to be heard.

Anne Marie Peard takes a look at the case of Craig
McLachlan from his behaviour in the workplace.

His alleged behaviour we're told included inappropriate
touching and kissing, running his finger along a
woman's inner thigh, tracing his finger over a woman's
vulva, using his tongue in a stage kiss, and pressing his
groin into a woman in an unasked for hug. All of which were
accompanied by a litany of sexual jokes and "pranks" as
McLachlan called them. Some of which apparently happened
on stage where the women were performing and couldn't
react publicly.

Peard tells us that -

All of it happened in a workplace that should have been safe
and comfortable for the women concerned.

McLachlan's legal team Peard points out - have continued
to assert that the women lied.

Except when they told the truth because the acts were
"consensual" and "de rigueur" in a theatre workplace.

The legal definition of "consent" is as Peard tells us -
essential to understanding this judgement.

We're asked - "Of all things to be angry about in 2020
is it worth getting upset over another wealthy,
middle-aged, famous bloke with very good lawyers getting
away with unprofessional behaviour in the workplace?

There's more at:

http://www.artshub.com.au/education/news-article/opinions-and-analysis/professional-development/anne-marie-peard/craig-mclachlan-and-workplace-respect-from-the-archives-262587