Abbott named in Fair Work case involving daughter's scholarship to art school

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been named as a respondent in a workplace case involving the design school which provided his daughter Frances with a scholarship.

Academic Melletios Kyriakidis is taking his former employer, the Whitehouse Institute of Design in Sydney, to the Fair Work Commission alleging he was discriminated against for his political beliefs.

Mr Kyriakidis leaked news of Ms Abbott's scholarship to the media and resigned in June after being investigated by the school for a privacy breach.

He has told Fairfax Media he had been "morally outraged" that Ms Abbott's fees had been waived while her father's government was trying to increase the cost of degrees through deregulation.