Veteran Australian Politician in Sex Scam: Woman Says They Had Sex in Parliament

A Monika-Lewinsky-like affair is now rocking Australia. A former barmaid is claiming that she had had a steamy affair with South Australian Premier Mike Rann. They had sex right in his office at State Parliament, she asserts.

Quite a popular leader, the 56-year-old Rann married actress Sasha Curruozzo in 2006, and he has two children from a previous marriage. He denies the allegations against him, though he admits ‘friendship’  with the former Parliament House barmaid Michelle Chantelois.

Country’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is backing his South Australian colleague. Mike Rann is the longest serving state premier in the country, and his approval ratings have been among the highest in the country.

But as the state is to go to polls in a few months, the scam has caused considerable consternation in the ranks of the ruling Australian Labour Party.

In the latest twist, Michelle Chantelois has dared the premier to go for a lie detector test, a challenge he is ducking, saying the truth would come out in the defamation action. He is suing a TV channel and a magazine that carried the allegations, but not his ‘friend’ herself.

In paid interviews on Seven Network and in New Idea magazine, the 39-year-old mother of two spoke of an intense 18 month affair that included sex sessions on the Premier’s desk in Parliament House, snatched meetings while parliament was in session and passionate trysts in a car at a golf course.