Protest intermediary backs PM (AAP)

ACT union official Kim Sattler says reports that her account of events on Australia Day contradicts Prime Minister Julia Gillard are "inaccurate".

News Limited reported on Sunday that Ms Sattler said her conversation with the prime minister's office had made her believe the opposition leader wanted the Aboriginal Tent Embassy to be closed.

Ms Gillard on Saturday said her former media adviser, Tony Hodges, did not suggest to Ms Sattler that Mr Abbott had said the tent embassy should be removed.

In a statement on Sunday, Ms Sattler said the News Ltd reports were "inaccurate".

"As I said in my statement yesterday, Tony Hodges from the prime minister's office told me what Tony Abbott had said - that people should `move on' from the Tent Embassy," she said in a statement on Sunday.

"Yesterday the prime minister gave an accurate account of my role."

Senior opposition frontbencher Christopher Pyne said Ms Gillard's press conference on Saturday has left "so many questions unanswered".

"The prime minister's office has verballed Tony Abbott. A riot has occurred as a consequence," he told Sky News on Sunday.

"Her statements have been directly contradicted by the primary sources involved in this controversy."

About 100 people surrounded a Canberra restaurant after they incorrectly heard that Mr Abbott had called for the Tent Embassy to be destroyed.

Mr Hodges resigned on Friday after admitting he had told Ms Sattler that Mr Abbott was inside the restaurant and for that information to be passed on to protesters nearby at the tent embassy.

Ms Gillard and Mr Abbott were evacuated from the restaurant when police and security personnel assessed there was a risk to them remaining there.

"This is the most serious security scare an Australian prime minister has faced since the Fraser government," Mr Pyne said.

He said the episode was another example of a government more concerned about itself than the nation's citizens.

"There is a stench at the heart of this government, in the prime minister's office where dirty tricks and grubby political deals are elevated," Mr Pyne said.

"The concerns of the Australian people about job security and other cost-of-living issues are pushed into the background."

The prime minister said Ms Sattler had issued a statement on Saturday consistent with her account of events on the Australia Day incident.

"Ms Sattler has obviously formed the view that she has not been accurately reported in today's media," Ms Gillard told reporters in Melbourne on Sunday.

"As I'm advised, she has put out a second statement today which once again accords with the views that I hold, having been fully briefed on the events."

Source: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/national/12752747/protest-intermediary-backs-pm/

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