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Penny Wong is hilariously unimpressed about Tony Abbott's broken table.

 

Looks like it wasn’t just the table that was smashed, amirite?

Soon after being ousted from the top job, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott did what anyone would do after a particularly shitty week at work: He invited his mates over and had a raucous party.

There were some casualties too. Abbott apparently ripped his shirt from his chest — just tore the thing right off.

Minister for Cities Jamie Briggs turned up in a wheelchair the day afterwards with a mysterious ‘running injury’.

And a marble table in the ministerial wing of Parliament House, met an untimely end.

Cleaners found the table (which was purchased in the 80s for $590) in pieces the morning after the blow out and informed Department of Parliamentary Services staff.

Today in Senate estimates,  an impressively dead-pan Labor Senator Penny Wong grilled DPS official John Ryan over the incident.

It went a little like this:

Quite a party, indeed.

An email between DPS staff about the damage was also read out:

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“It is understood that the table may have been damaged by a person standing or dancing upon it,” the email said.

Senator Wong suggested that perhaps Mr Briggs could had been the dancer in question, given his sore leg… He stuck with the running story.

As host of the party, Tones has now offered to pay for the table but not before the Internet responded. Hilariously.

Here were some of the Twitter highlights from #marbletablegate:

Meanwhile some genius is already selling the defunct table on Gumtree.

“Only slightly used, this antique coffee table was crafted with an expert’s touch from only the finest Roman marble,” the ad reads.

“One previous owner who may have had some anger issues and questionable beliefs about immigration, women and the environment, but don’t worry, he doesn’t live here anymore.

“Still functions fine as long as you don’t mind things occasionally falling on the floor.”

Pick up from Canberra, obvs.

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