Abbott to pay for vandalised marble table - now in the shit over his PM piss ups

+Update: the table was bought in the 1980's and has survived all that time without damage. In today's $ it's worth between $1170 and $2375.   

And so he bloody well should pay for it. The marble table that was vandalised during his post spill piss up wouldn't be cheap either. I do hope he feels even more "mortgage stress" now and feels the money he has to cough up for it. Three cheers for senate estimates.

Mr Abbott yesterday agreed to pay for an Italian marble table broken during a wild party in parliament house on the night he was dumped as prime minister. ninmsn

What a shameful disgrace of a prime minister he was. Even to the end, he chose a parliamentary piss up to farewell the high office. What an insult to Australia. I reckon charges should have been laid over vandalism of Commonwealth property. If any of us plebs had of done it there would have been. 

Smashed, damaged or chipped? @SenatorWong and @corybernardi's war of words at #estimates over #marblegate #auspol pic.twitter.com/VUKsgdHgiw

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But there's more......... 

Now he's also in the shit about how much taxpayers were paying for alcohol at his "personal" piss ups. Bureaucrats of his didn't want to tell about what brands he was buying for said piss ups, and although the information was requested by the senate earlier in the year, the info provided was censored as being "personal" WTF?

These alcohol binges added up to over $7,300 in just two months! Or $917 a week. Or $131 a day every day for two months. 

Fuck, no wonder he was a fucked prime minister, he must have been permanently pissed! Actually he did appear on telly a number of time hung over as I recall..... Perhaps he should pay for all this "personal" stuff himself then?

Labor senator Penny Wong made the request to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet earlier this year, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. 

When the department did finally respond, well beyond the usual 30-day turnaround, the receipts of Mr Abbott's alcohol purchases were heavily censored, with details about what brands and types of alcohol was bought redacted. 

The receipts did show $7340 worth of alcohol was purchased between February 9 and April for various personal functions hosted by Mr Abbott; bureaucrats insisted details about specific alcohol brands were Mr Abbott's "personal information". 

Speaking at a senate estimates hearing yesterday, Ms Wong likened the lack of transparency to an episode of ABC comedy Utopia. 

In a recent episode, fictional government bureaucrats brainstorm ways not to release a publicly-accessible document. 

"How is that personal information where you choose to spend taxpayer's money? How is that personal information? This is like a Utopia episode all over again," she said. ninemsn