“I know who you are”: Peta Credlin’s bombshell claims
Sky News presenter and former chief of staff for Tony Abbott Peta Credlin has revealed that she sacked the Coalition staffer featured in a video masturbating on the desk of a federal MP in Parliament House.
Credlin also alleged that evidence was found that another staffer had held "gay orgies" inside Parliament, including during Question Time where their boss was in the chamber.
Credlin said she was collecting evidence for the review being carried out by Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins into Parliament's workplace culture.
She said that years earlier, she had dismissed the staffer in the video for disloyalty and leaking information against his boss.
“That bloke I demanded to be sacked years earlier for disloyalty, for lying, for leaking against his boss,” she said.
“I sacked him and I said he would never be back while I worked in that building.”
He was rehired when Malcolm Turnbull became Prime Minister, but was fired again due to the publication of the video.
“The bloke I sacked came back and dozens more like him. Mid-career women, women of ability, lost out in roles to well-connected factional twenty-somethings with not much on their CV of note other than the ability to stack branches,” Credlin said.
“Much of the current mess on the ministerial blue carpet for the Coalition is a legacy from the Turnbull years.
“These are my first comments on incidents in the past. They will not be my last.”
She was very clear to the three other men in the video, saying: “I know who you are. I see you”.
“The former minister who it is alleged had his male prostitutes delivered to Parliament House by this spiteful gang – signed in and all kept quiet – former minister I see you too,” Credlin added.
Credlin said that there was evidence of the gay orgies held inside Parliament.
“When the MP cleaned out the former staffer’s desk, and the computer, that MP uncovered evidence that for many months, that staffer had regularly met with other men during the middle of the day – while the MP was in question time – for orgies in political offices,” she said.
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