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'Mad witch': Australian Minister mistakenly sent offensive SMS

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(BBC NEWS)Australia'sImmigrationMinisterPeterDuttonhasreportedlyapologisedformistakenlysendinganSMStoajournalist,callinghera"madwitch".

PoliticalreporterSamanthaMaidensaidtheoffensivetext,whichalsocontainedstronglanguage,wasintendedfordisgracedex-ministerJamieBriggs.

ShesaidMrDuttonapologisedforthemessageaboutherarticlereferringtoMrBriggs'recentresignation.

TheBBChasapproachedMrDutton'sofficeforcomment.

HereportedlytoldNewsCorpinastatementheisexpectinga"toughtime"inMsMaiden'snextarticle.

"SamandIhaveexchangedsomerobustlanguageovertheyearssowehadalaughafterthisandIapologisedtoherstraightaway,whichshetookingoodfaith,"MrDuttonwasquotedassaying.

FormerCitiesMinisterJamieBriggsresignedlastweekfollowingacomplaintfromafemalepublicservantoverhisallegedconductduringanightoutinHongKong.