A second person has left embattled employment minister Michaelia Cash's office, following the scandal over Cash's office leaking information to the media about police raids on union offices.



Senior adviser Simon Berger resigned from Cash's office in recent weeks, after working in parliament for nearly four years. BuzzFeed News has confirmed Berger commenced his new job as the deputy federal director of the Liberal Party on Monday.

Berger made news in 2012 after hosting a Sydney University Young Liberals dinner where radio shock jock Alan Jones said former Labor prime minister Julia Gillard's father died of shame.



He also arranged the auction of a jacket, signed by Jones, which was made from a chaff bag. Jones had previously said on his radio show that Gillard should be put inside a chaff bag and dumped at sea.

Berger, a prominent NSW Liberal, voluntarily resigned as the government relations manager for Woolworths following the Jones scandal.

Cash's office said Berger's departure to join Liberal HQ was not linked with the scandal, but government sources told BuzzFeed News the timing of the departure was suspicious, and that they expect more heads to roll when further information about the raids leak emerges.

“Mr Berger has left the office in order to take up a senior position in the Liberal Party, with the full support of the minister," a spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. "Any suggestion that this is related to any other matter is utterly false."



BuzzFeed News understands no-one else has left the office.

"Minister Cash has lost yet another staffer, hot on the heals of her senior advisor resigning for leaking information to the media," shadow minister for employment and workplace relations Brendan O'Connor told BuzzFeed News.

"It's time the deception and cover ups end - who else in her office was involved and who else knew about the leak? How many people were involved? It’s time for Cash to finally tell the truth.

"Senator Cash's story is unravelling by the day. It's hard to see how anyone will trust anything she says."