Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has taken a swing at several Liberal candidates running for the Liberal Party in the upcoming federal election.
The NSW Department of Education said the principal had officially raised concerns with Liberal Party headquarters.
“Who doesn’t know that you can’t hand sweets to children who are not yours outside of school?” Albanese said.
“Who doesn’t know that, does anyone here not know that that’s not what you do?
“And no wonder the principal at that school in Lane Cove put in a complaint to the Liberal Party.
“He didn’t rock up there by himself, that was a campaign event.”
The Liberal Party has been contacted by 9news.com.au for comment about the visit.
At the press conference, Albanese also spoke about Labor candidates in the state and compared them with their opponents.
“You compare it with the other mob,” he said.
“They’ve got a candidate for the Senate here, who’s connected up with illuminati rubbish.
“There’s a bloke who blames feminists for US election results.”
LNP candidate Jeremy Neal, who is running in the marginal Queensland seat of Leichhardt, apologised this week after a series of resurfaced social media posts, including some of which blamed feminists for Donald Trump’s 2020 US presidential election loss.
“What is he saying? Women shouldn’t vote?” Albanese said.
“I mean, these people have selected shockers.
“They had to get rid of their candidate in Whitlam because he came out with all sorts of theories about women not being allowed to be in combat forces.”
The Liberal Party dumped its candidate for Whitlam Ben Britton after it was revealed he had said before pre-selection that women soldiers shouldn’t be in combat.
Later in the day in Western Australia, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton was asked if he would use his authority as Liberal leader to drive through reform of the Liberal Party irrespective of the federal election result and whether poor candidate selection would cost him his shot at the Lodge.
“When you look at the candidates we’ve chosen here in WA, look at behind me, look at in Victoria, there are many seats at play in Victoria, in NSW, here in WA, I think we’ve selected some fantastic candidates,” he said.
He was joined by Liberal candidate Howard Ong and shadow ministers Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Michaelia Cash at Mount Pleasant Bowling Club.
