The erstwhile Cricket Tasmania staffer astatine the centre of Tim Paine's sexting scandal reportedly contacted Cricket Australia requesting an apology and fees to screen her ineligible costs successful 2018.
According to a Sydney Morning Herald report, the pistillate who received the explicit substance messages contacted CA successful 2018 connected aggregate occasions requesting an apology from the now-former Test captain, arsenic good arsenic $40,000 for ineligible costs.
The study besides states that representatives from the governing assemblage were presented with a implicit transcript of the exchanges and images successful January 2019.
In precocious 2018, emails were sent to Christine Harman, CA's caput of ineligible affairs. A prime radical of elder unit members were past looped in.
The woman's petition was declined successful November 2018 owed to the substance being a quality betwixt a staffer and 2 employees of Cricket Tasmania. Paine was not nether declaration with Cricket Australia erstwhile the lewd messages were exchanged successful November 2017.
When the substance came to the attraction of CA successful May 2018, Paine was investigated by the governing body, arsenic good arsenic Cricket Tasmania.
Cricket Australia's probe included a hunt of Paine's phone, but the decision was that helium had not transgressed successful a mode that would bring a complaint nether its codification of conduct.
The erstwhile staffer's lawyer went to Sean Mulcahy to put a gathering with CA.
"I provided a afloat transcript of the substance speech with Tim Paine, including the pictures that were sent," Mulcahy said.
"I indicated that it was her volition to support the substance backstage and that she was seeking an apology from Cricket Tasmania and her ineligible fees reimbursed. I was subsequently contacted by Christine Harman astatine CA, advising that nary mediation would instrumentality place. That was my past treatment with CA."
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The erstwhile staffer astatine the centre of the substance is presently facing charges of theft that day backmost to her clip with Cricket Tasmania. She is denying those allegations.
It's besides been revealed that Shannon Tubb, Paine's brother-in-law, has besides been accused of sexually harrassing the pistillate astatine the centre of the Paine complaint. Tubb is simply a erstwhile Cricket Tasmania employee.
Tubb hasn't worked with Cricket Tasmania since 2018 aft his declaration was terminated arsenic portion of a confidential agreement.
He's since been moving arsenic a cricket manager astatine Prince Alfred College, a backstage schoolhouse successful Adelaide.
The school's main Bradley Fenner said helium wasn't alert of immoderate allegations against Tubb until they came retired successful the media.
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"We were not alert of that astatine the clip we employed him," helium told Nine's Today.
"At that time, helium was and helium remains an worker of the South Australian Cricket Association.
"So we request to find retired each of the facts and past determine however we proceed."
Former Test skipper Mark Taylor, who spent astir 14 years connected the Cricket Australia board, yesterday defended the civilization surrounding CA during his time.
"I don't judge determination ever was this toxic civilization close done Cricket Australia," Taylor said connected Nine's Sports Sunday.
"I was connected the committee for 13 oregon 14 years astir that clip - I would accidental the overwhelming bulk of radical who worked astatine Cricket Australia are bully people, who worked for what they thought was the champion interests of cricket successful this country, and the cricketers and the radical astir them successful this country, truthful I don't subscribe to this."
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