{"id":623088,"date":"2026-04-22T07:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623088\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:48:11","slug":"actor-accused-of-breaking-girl-code-in-breast-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623088\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor accused of breaking &#8216;girl code&#8217; in breast assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An actor has been accused of &#8220;breaking the girl code&#8221; by grabbing and twisting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/parliament\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Parliament\">Parliament<\/a> House worker&#8217;s breast during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/protests\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"protest\">protest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alicia Gardiner, known for her roles in the television series Offspring and Deadloch, faced Melbourne Magistrates Court today over the alleged assault at Victoria&#8217;s Parliament House.<\/p>\n<p>The court was told Gardiner, 50, was among a group of pro-Palestine protesters who crashed the treasurer&#8217;s budget speech on May 7, 2024, chanting and holding signs in the public gallery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/1e1af6be-7236-41bd-818a-17993180a972.png\"   alt=\"Alicia Gardiner, known for her roles in the television series Offspring and Deadloch, faced Melbourne Magistrates Court today over the alleged assault at Victoria's Parliament House.\"\/>Alicia Gardiner, known for her roles in the television series Offspring and Deadloch, faced Melbourne Magistrates Court today over the alleged assault at Victoria&#8217;s Parliament House. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>As they were escorted out, it&#8217;s alleged Gardiner tried to enter the legislative chamber but was stopped by two workers blocking the door.<\/p>\n<p>Gardiner is accused of pushing one of the workers before grabbing and twisting the woman&#8217;s left breast.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant, who asked not to be named, told the court she felt a sharp pain like a knife and was in a state of shock.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My view was she broke the girl code and twisted my breast,&#8221; the complainant said in her evidence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a0ad5a41-9d7c-43e1-96c5-7e6d147fbc8d.png\"   alt=\"Gardiner is known for her roles in the television series Offspring and Deadloch.\"\/>Gardiner is known for her roles in the television series Offspring and Deadloch. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>The woman told the court Gardiner had stared at her intently before bending her head down and coming at her with her hands up.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant admitted she put her own hands up to stop Gardiner from entering the legislative chamber.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had my hand on her and then I had the sharp pain,&#8221; the complainant told the court.<\/p>\n<p>In body-worn camera footage played to the court, the woman told police immediately after the incident that her initial reaction was to hit Gardiner but she &#8220;managed not to&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Gardiner has denied the allegations, with her lawyer Angeline Centrone telling the court there was insufficient evidence for the magistrate to find there was an unlawful assault.<\/p>\n<p>Gardiner is expected to give evidence this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An actor has been accused of &#8220;breaking the girl code&#8221; by grabbing and twisting a Parliament House worker&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-623088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}