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Labor’s Penny Sharpe suspended from upper house for a week

Penny Sharpe, NSW Labor's upper house leader and energy minister, was suspended from parliament for seven days on Tuesday for refusing to produce documents related to a decade-old sexual harassment allegation against former party general secretary Jamie Clements, who denied the claims. The suspension, the longest in living memory, leaves the government one vote short in the chamber.

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