Prime Minister Scott Morrison has slammed the “disgusting and sickening” reports of male senior government staff members performing sex acts inside Parliament House.
Morrison said it was “not good enough” and “totally unacceptable” after images and videos of staff performing lewd acts, including on the desk of a female MP, were shared with Network 10.
“The people who come to work in this building are better than this,” Mr Morrison said in a statement. “The actions of these individuals show a staggering disrespect for the people who work in Parliament, and for the ideals Parliament is supposed to represent.”
He said the Government had “identified the staff members at the centre of these allegations and terminated his employment immediately”.
Another Parliament House insider has come forward, saying that “the culture needs to change”.
“Now is the time to speak up, now is the time to put it on the record. It is a culture of men thinking that they can do whatever they want,” the man, identified only as Tom, said.
Tom was the one who provided Channel 10 with a range of photographs and videos recorded inside Parliament House with male staff proudly filming themselves engaged in lewd acts.
He revealed that a group of coalition staffers regularly swap explicit photos so much that “I’ve just become immune to it”.
While Tom said he didn’t think the “disgusting, disgraceful, privileged” staffers had “broken any laws, morally, they are bankrupt”.
