Staff and MPs have been on the receiving end of a dirty email after a recent series of “messes” in the men’s toilets across a number of floors in the Adelaide Parliament left them “significantly soiled”, the ABC reports.
In the note, Joint Parliamentary Service Committee secretary Rick Crump says that the “blatant disregard and lack of respect” for everyone else in the building is “very concerning”.
“Further, these toilets are often used by members of the public and guests of the Parliament and to encounter an environment like that surely leaves a very distasteful and lasting impression of the institution,” he writes (though we’re not sure peoples’ opinion of politicians could sink any lower).
Interestingly, the messes have only been appearing during sitting weeks – and MPs are unimpressed.
“The hard-working staff, they’ve got enough crap that they hear in the actual chamber, let alone getting bogged down in this kind of rubbish,” Labor MP Nat Cook said.
Mc Cook has suggested Parliament “pass a motion” in the house to launch an investigation into the matter.
In the meantime, staff are reportedly taking it on themselves to monitor the toilets in the hope the offender cleans up their act.
Who would have thought? For once, it’s not the Government making the mess.
