A federal Liberal staffer has been sacked after being filmed performing a lewd act on a female MP’s desk in Parliament House.

Ten News this week reported a group of Coalition government staffers had been exchanging pictures and videos among themselves of sex acts performed in Parliament House.

Ten News showed censored images of a man masturbating over the desk of an unnamed female MP. The same man allegedly took another video of himself performing a sex act on someone else, in what he said was his boss’ office.

The same report also claimed sex workers had been brought into Parliament House to visit MPs.

The man was reportedly sacked on Monday night after the videos went public. 

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says attitudes to women must change. 

“I know there are plenty of women who work in this building today, whether they be members or senators, investors, shadow ministers, staff, journalists, who say, ‘Why should I bother? Why should I bother? Why should I not just walk away?’,” Mr Morrison said at a press conference at Parliament House on Tuesday morning.

“There has never been a more important time for women to stand in this place. I want to see more women in this place, I have done many things to get more women in this place and I intend to do more.”

Industry Minister Karen Andrews says the government advisers who shared the mobile phone video should resign or face an investigation.

Ms Andrews said that the ongoing treatment of women in Parliament is making her change her long-held views about gender quotas.

“I’ve always been quite anti-quotas, because I felt that it was a disadvantage to women because they would be perceived as only getting promoted, only getting a job, because they were a number,” she said.

“The point that I’m at now is that our processes to attract more women, to my party and into the Parliament, have not been as successful as they need to be. And we can’t continue doing the same thing and expect a different outcome. So I’m certainly open to a discussion about quotas.”

The ALP introduced quotas for women to be endorsed in winnable seats back in the 1990s, which has allowed it to draw close to 50/50 gender parity today.