Queensland MP says she was drugged and assaulted

Police successful Australia person launched an probe pursuing a ailment by Queensland MP Brittany Lauga that she was drugged and sexually assaulted.

The adjunct curate for wellness said she was attacked connected a nighttime retired successful her constituency of Yeppoon.

"This could person happened to anyone and tragically, it does hap to galore of us," she said.

The incidental follows protests that person taken spot successful effect to caller unit against women.

Ms Lauga, 37, went to a constabulary presumption and past to infirmary connected 28 April.

"Tests astatine the infirmary confirmed the beingness of drugs successful my assemblage which I did not take," she said successful a connection posted connected societal media, adding the substance had impacted her "significantly".

Queensland Police Service (QPS) confirmed officers were investigating a intersexual battle ailment regarding an incidental successful Yeppoon connected Sunday.

Ms Lauga was reportedly contacted by different women who said they were drugged connected the aforesaid evening.

"It's not OK. We should beryllium capable to bask socialising successful our municipality without the hazard of being drugged oregon assaulted," she said, adding that she needed clip to "physically and emotionally heal".

Police said nary further reports successful the aforesaid country person been made, but are asking anyone with accusation oregon who person experienced thing akin to interaction them.

"The QPS takes each reports of portion spiking earnestly and investigates reports of portion spiking connected a case-by-case basis, and often successful conjunction with different offences specified arsenic intersexual assault," they said.

Ms Lauga has been successful parliament for astir a decennary and was archetypal elected to the spot of Keppel successful 2015.

Queensland Housing Minister Meaghan Scanlon called the allegations "shocking" and "horrifying", Australian media reported.

"Brittany is simply a colleague, she is simply a friend, she is simply a young pistillate successful the Queensland parliament and these are truly shocking things to read," Mr Scanlon said.

"It is unacceptable that women are disproportionately the victims of domestic, household and intersexual violence. Our authorities is going to proceed to bash everything we tin to support women and halt unit from occurring."

Australia has witnessed a spate of gender-based unit successful caller weeks.

In April, Joel Cuachi stabbed six radical to decease successful a Sydney buying centre.

Five of the victims were women and the New South Wales constabulary commissioner told Australia's ABC News that it was "obvious" helium focused connected harming women.

A question of rallies took spot successful effect to the attack, with demonstrators calling for gender-based unit to beryllium declared a nationalist exigency and stricter laws enactment successful spot to halt it.

A pistillate has been killed connected mean each 4 days successful the state truthful acold this year.