Far-right federal politicians tend to stick together in the face of negative media coverage and on 17 February 2018 thirty-nine year old George Robert Christensen, Liberal-Nationals MP for Dawson, apparently decided to give social media something else to talk about other than his 'mate' Nationals Leader Barnaby Joyce.
Unfortunately when picking a topic George showed all the maturity and sound judgement voters have come to expect from members of the Turnbull Coalition Government.
Cristensen's Facebook caption reads "You gotta ask yourself, do you feel lucky, greenie punks?"
Unfortunately for George at least one member of the public reported his Facebook post to the police and the prime minister. So it wasn't that long before he changed the captioning of this gun-totting image.
Some time later he also removed the image with a silly show of petulance.
Perhaps he finally got around to considering whether his prime minister might be as unamused as many other Australians given these facts about those so-called "greenie punks".
“Two hundred
environmental activists, wildlife rangers and indigenous leaders
trying to protect their land were killed in 2016, according to the
watchdog group Global Witness – more than double the number killed five
years ago.” [The
Guardian, 13 June 2017]
"A New South Wales farmer who shot and killed an environment officer involved in land clearing prosecutions against his family has been found guilty of murder." [ABC News, 25 May 2016]
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