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:
Top Comments
Yes, hilarious Penny Wong! How we all laughed when, as Finance Minister, she led Australia down the path of enormous debt. Our Penny is a scream alright!
The ABC news's reenactment of this was hilarious.