EXCLUSIVE: Sky commentator and Liberal high-flyer best known for joking about being 'too old' to be sexually harassed is allegedly VERY wild behind the wheel - with cops pinning her for a string of driving offences committed in her BMW
- Teena McQueen, 61, is a Liberal Party federal vice president and Sky contributor
- She once joked about not being a likely sexual assault target because of her age
- McQueen has resisted calls to stop commenting publicly about the Liberal Party
- She has been charged with driving while suspended and making unlawful U-turn
Outspoken Liberal Party federal vice president Teena McQueen has been charged with a string of traffic offences while driving her BMW convertible in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
The Sky News contributor, who has appeared on programs hosted by Peta Credlin, Andrew Bolt, Paul Murray and Cory Bernardi, was stopped by highway patrol officers at Paddington about 11.15am on August 11.
Police allege the 61-year-old was behind the wheel of her black BMW 430i while her licence was suspended and made an unlawful U-turn at traffic lights on the intersection of Oxford Street and Jersey Road.
The hard-right conservative, whose address is listed as a $2.65million city apartment near Circular Quay, is further accused of having her number plate obscured.
Controversial Liberal Party federal vice president Teena McQueen has been charged with a string of traffic offences while driving in her convertible BMW in Sydney's eastern suburbs
She was represented by a solicitor but did not appear in person when the charges were mentioned in Downing Centre Local Court last Friday. No pleas were entered and McQueen did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
McQueen, who is one of the Liberal Party's four federal vice presidents, has sparked controversy in recent years with some of her television appearances.
She has often spoken publicly on internal party matters and has been accused of making comments detrimental to women.
In March 2021 it was reported McQueen had said, 'I would kill to be sexually harassed at the moment' during a meeting of senior female New South Wales Liberal officials.
McQueen denied using those exact words but apologised, saying she had merely uttered a 'throwaway line' making fun of herself.
'What I said was, at my age - and it was a joke - every woman ages and I'm no longer sexually harassed, which is a fair comment considering I'm a grandmother,' she told news.com.au.
'I have apologised and I've said I regret the comment - clearly I will no longer make any off the cuff jokes - even though it was a comment about myself, but I will certainly not go there again.'
The Sky contributor was stopped by police at Paddington about 11.15am on August 11. She is pictured with former New York mayor and Donald Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani
A gag order placed on most members of the national Liberal executive before the last federal election was widely seen as being directed at stopping her speaking out.
In response, McQueen told Nine newspapers: 'Do you think anyone could gag me?'
In 2019 McQueen appeared on the ABC's Q&A program in what was described as a 'train wreck' performance.
During the show described political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, who had recently been banned from Australia for hateful comments as 'an entertainer'.
'No on could possibly take Milo seriously,' she said.
Instead, she accused former Greens leader Richard Di Natale of using 'hate speech' and 'inciting violence', which then host Tony Jones said was 'probably defamatory'.
On the same program McQueen spoke fondly of former US president Donald Trump, who she had met at a Miss Universe pageant in 2006.
'I had a great time [talking] to him about politics,' she said. 'He was not racist, not sexist, none of those things.'
Referring to Trump's infamous 'grab 'em by the p***y' remark when secretly recorded talking about using his fame to have sex with women, McQueen said: 'I just made a joke about a c**k earlier on. I don't think there's much difference there.'
Fellow panellist, American writer Roxane Gay, responded: 'A joke versus grabbing a woman [and] talking about sexual assault are two very different things.'
Jacqui Lambie was scathing of McQueen's contributions to the debate. 'I thought the Libs were already a train wreck Teena McQueen just sent them off the tracks,' she wrote on Twitter.
McQueen told Andrew Bolt in late 2018 she was not impressed by claims of women being bullied within the Liberal Party.
'I would say put up or shut up,' she said. 'Women always want the spoils of victory without the fight.'
Police allege McQueen was behind the wheel of her black BMW 430i while her licence was suspended and made an unlawful U-turn. She is pictured with NSW Liberal MP Robyn Preston
McQueen was a fierce supporter of former prime minister Tony Abbott and a critic of his successor Malcolm Turnbull.
She has been a Liberal Party member for more than 30 years and is against quotas for women in parliament.
In February it was revealed McQueen had taken on a new role with billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prosecting.
At the time, Ms Rinehart said she regarded McQueen 'very highly' and was 'delighted' she had agreed to join Hancock's executive team as group principal policy adviser.
'Teena is a proven senior executive and a strong strategic thinker coming to Hancock with decades of experience across business, public policy and advocacy and will lead our efforts across these areas,' Ms Rinehart said.
McQueen said she was 'thrilled' with the new job. 'I share Mrs Rinehart's passion for Australia and regard her as an outstanding role model,' she said.
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