Hunt for troll inside Parliament House A PARLIAMENTARY computer has been used to generate pro-Labor and pro-government comments sent to a regional newspaper from ten fake identities. An investigation is under way and Parliamentary Services Department chief information office Eija Serittenranta has told Senate Estimates that if a public servant is behind the posts, they could breach of Commonwealth law. The comments were sent to Victoria's Colac Herald in one of the country's most marginal electorates, Corangamite, which is held by Labor's Darren Cheeseman. Colac Herald journalist Scott Barnes said the paper's editor traced the comments from the various identities in which the person claimed to be everything from a teacher to a hospital worker back to the same IP address inside parliament. "The comments came to our website, the stories were about cuts to the hospital here, there has been a lot of political argy bargy, like there has been all over the country," Mr Barnes said. The IP addresses were the same but the comments were under different names, we realised a lot of them were from fake emails addresses. The editor found out where they were coming from. Parliamentary services said it could take up to a week to trace the exact computer used to send the messages. One comment posted by "state watcher" said "The state government has cut $616 million in funding whilst the federal government is increase its funding." Other identities used by the poster included claims they were an employee of Bulla Dairy Foods, Colac Area Health and Barwon Health. A staffer of Mr Cheeseman said he would call News Ltd after a meeting but by 7pm last night had not called back. The Colac Herald has passed on the IP address to parliamentary investigators.