ACT Opposition leader fronts media after texting ‘f–k my job is boring’ during estimates hearing

ACT Opposition leader Mark Parton faced extensive questioning during a press conference after he admitted to texting “f–k my job is boring” during a budget estimates meeting.

Parton was subject this week to a complaint alleging he sent the message to a sex worker, local media reported.

“F–k my job is boring. Wanna swap,” Parton reportedly wrote, accompanied by a photo of a committee meeting last week, according to the Canberra Times.

After initially denying the complaint in full as a “smear”, Parton fronted the media to confirm that he did send the text but denied that it was to a sex worker.

“There’s a hell of a lot of private messages that are sent from a hell of a lot of people in the context of sitting days and hearings,” he said.

Parton told the media that the ACT Legislative Assembly’s standards commissioner has decided not to launch an investigation into the matter.

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