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Peta Credlin reveals details of orgies, prostitutes during her time working at Parliament House

Political staffer-turned-Sky News host says she’ll participate in review of Parliament culture, revealing she witnessed shocking acts.

Peta Credline the Sky News host and former chief-of-staff to Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Picture: Sky News
Peta Credline the Sky News host and former chief-of-staff to Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Picture: Sky News

Tony Abbott’s former chief-of-staff and now Sky News host, Peta Credlin, has revealed new details of “sickening” behaviour at Parliament House, saying she will participate in the government’s review of workplace culture.

Ms Credlin worked at Parliament House over a period of 16 years, during which she alleged she knew of staffer orgies occurring in offices while MPs were in Question Time.

During her time in the Leader of the Opposition’s office, she said she had “reason to recommend” the sacking of a staff member for “lying and disloyalty”.

EXCLUSIVE: Peta Credlin reveals Canberra staffer incidents for first time

“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.

“Labor staffers, not just this Coalition man, and a number of others too.”

Ms Credlin she had also previously recommended the sacking of the staffer responsible for performing a solo sex act on the desk of a female MP. The man’s employment was terminated when the story was revealed in The Australian on Monday.

“The man sacked by the Morrison government this week for his disgusting acts on his MP’s desk and its distribution on a little chat group … that bloke I demanded to be sacked years earlier for disloyalty, for lying, for leaking against his boss,” she said.

“That bloke is not the same as the man I told you about in the orgies — that was another circumstance. But the bloke that was sacked this week was someone I sacked many years earlier, he never forgave me for it … but you never heard my side of it did you?”

Exclusive video of a new sex scandal in Parliament House (10 News)

Ms Credlin said that after Malcolm Turnbull “rolled Abbott” and she was gone, “he was back”.

“He is not the only one. The other three that Peter van Onselen broke in his story earlier this week, I know who you are. I see you,” Ms Credlin said.

“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.”

Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins is leading a review of workplace culture in Parliament House at the request of Mr Morrison and Finance Minister Simon Birmingham. It will conclude in November.

Ellie Dudley
Ellie DudleyLegal Affairs Correspondent

Ellie Dudley is the legal affairs correspondent at The Australian covering courts, crime, and changes to the legal industry. She was previously a reporter on the NSW desk and, before that, one of the newspaper's cadets.

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