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Kimberley Kitching’s husband delivers touching tribute at emotional funeral service
Andrew Landeryou, the husband of Kimberley Kitching, has paid a touching tribute to his late wife at an emotional funeral service – while also addressing some of the treatment she received in politics. On Monday, family, friends and politicians from both aisles of parliament came together to honour the late senator at a service at St Patrick's Cathedral. “The simple truth of it is that Kimberley’s political and moral judgment was vastly superior to the small number who opposed her internally,” Mr Landeryou said during the address. “And of course, there’s a lot I could say about the unpleasantness of a cantankerous cabal – not all of them in parliament – that was aimed at Kimba. “And the intensity of it did baffle and hurt her. “But I hope it’s sufficient to say she deserves so very much better. "Her friends and ferociously loyal staff are angry about how she was treated, of course they are, and I have no quarrel with them about that – they know what they saw with their own eyes." Mr Landeryou’s comments come in the wake of serious allegations of bullying having been levelled at senior Labor senators. Ms Kitching – who recently passed away from a suspected heart attack – was allegedly bullied by three colleagues, Penny Wong, Kristina Keneally and Katy Gallagher. The three senators at the centre of the claims have denied the allegations.
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