Official wine collection 'was drunk at Tony Abbott's farewell party' as staffer says he DID 'hurt his leg' at the gathering

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Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott's official wine collection, which is typically reserved for official functions but was being housed at Parliament House, was reportedly drunk at his farewell party.

Meanwhile, Liberal MP for Mayo Jamie Briggs has said that he hurt himself at the rowdy bash in September,The Daily Telegraph reported.

Mr Abbott's staff members were reported to have been dancing on an Italian marble table that was found smashed the following morning.

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This is one receipt from Tony Abbott's $7340 wine and beer bill that was heavily redacted

Mr Abbott (left) spent much of the week after his ousting catching up with friends and enjoying last moments with colleagues. Liberal MP Jamie Briggs admitted that he injured his leg at the rowdy party but denied it happened while dancing on the marble table

'Quite a party': The marble table was purchased for Parliament House in the 1980s for a princely sum of $590, a senate committee heard

However, Mr Briggs said that reports of table dancing were 'just wrong' and he doesn’t know how the $590 table broke because by then he had ‘limped’ back to his office. 

The Liberal staffer said the gathering on Mr Abbott's last night as prime minister 'wasn't a party' but consisted of a few people sitting around and chatting.

Mr Abbott has offered to replace an Italian marble table that was shattered during the party.

Taxpayers are on the hock for the party’s alcohol receipt – just one of many Mr Abbott collected in less than two months – totalling $7,340.

The receipts have been heavily redacted by government officials who said his 'beverage preferences' was 'personal information'.

The government officials’ explanation did not satisfy Labor Senator Penny Wong who requested the receipts with a Freedom of Information request earlier this year.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that during angry exchanges at a Senate estimates hearing, Senator Wong held up one of the heavily redacted receipts, saying: 'It looks like an exhibit out of Utopia. Seriously, you must have run out of toner.' 

Senator Wong was referring to a recent episode of the ABC TV comedy Utopia, where bureaucrats were seen discussing all the different ways not to release a document that is accessible to the public.

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

The row over Abbott's favourite tipple came after it was revealed he will pay for the damage caused to a marble table during a raucous party held the night he was ousted as prime minister. 

Senator Penny Wong (pictured) brandishes the pictures of the damaged table during a senate committee meeting on Monday

The former prime minister's alcohol receipts were heavily redacted by government officials who said his 'beverage preferences' was 'personal information'

Cleaners found the Italian marble table worth $590 completely wrecked the morning after the wild party, a parliamentary committee heard on Monday.

On Monday night, Mr Abbott said he was responsible for the damage.

'On the night of the leadership change I hosted drinks in the cabinet ante-room for staff and colleagues,' a statement from the Member for Warringah read.

'During this event, a coffee table was damaged. I have asked my office to have the Department of Parliamentary Services invoice me for the value of the table.’

'It was my event so I take responsibility for it.'

Mr Abbott's statement comes after the first photographs of the wrecked table were released after persistent rumours senior Liberals may have been dancing on tables that fateful, boozy September night.

Rampant destruction: This Italian marble table was 'heavily damaged' during the party on the night Mr Abbott was dumped as Liberal leader 

Mr Abbott is said to have taken his shirt off for a brief time while on the dancefloor.

'It came off, but it was back on pretty quickly', a source told News Corp recently.

The revelations of the scale of the damage come after weeks of reports about the wild antics of MPs and staffers in the week following Mr Abbott's downfall.

Moments after Mr Turnbull won the Liberal party room vote he found himself being abused by a foul-mouthed junior staffer from Mr Abbott's office. 

Prime Minister Tony Abbott (pictured enjoying a beer earlier this year) reportedly took his shirt off for a brief moment at that same party

'Malcolm, Malcolm, Malcolm... you're a c---,' advance team member Richard Dowdy reportedly screamed at the nation's next leader as he emerged from the party room with his wife Lucy. 

The evening where the table was destroyed was far from the final round of partying for Mr Abbott. He held a high school reunion at Kirribilli house the weekend he was ousted.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported 'raucous laughter' was heard drifting from the house.