Anthony Albanese has been checked and booed by wind farm activists who told him that he had to go home 'while he greeted supporters on the south coast of NSW.
The Premier visited a Bluescope Steelworks Center in Lake Illawarra on Friday to announce the Labor candidate for Whitlam.
But the Meet and Greet fell into chaos after it was hijacked by anti-offshore wind farm activists who protested against the event.
“What's going on there? Why don't we place them in your place. Put them in front of your bloody country house: 'A man shouted.
Another man told Mr. Albanians to 'go home'.
“You don't respect the regions, we don't want your wind farms,” he said.
“Go here from Albo, we don't want you here.”
The incident was compared when the then primary minister Scott Morrison was checked when he greeted the locals in the city of Cobargo destroyed by the forest.
Anthony Albanese has been checked and booed by wind farm activists who told him that he 'went home' while he greeted supporters on the south coast of NSW
“What's going on there? Why don't we place them in your place. Put them in front of your bloody country house: 'One man shouted (depicted)
In images of the now notorious Meet-and-Greet, Mr. Morrison can be seen by violently shaking the hand of a reluctant firefighter.
One person told Mr. Morrison that he “ashamed of himself” and said he “had left the country to burn,” while another called him a “mutt.”
Albanian did not seem to be impressed by the interruptions of his press conference while the men stayed Boo from just meters away.
“Nice to have a size here,” said Mr. Albanese.
The Hecklers started again when the prime minister said that he had 'the back' of the blue collar lanes in the steel industry.
“My message is clear which is” we have your back. ” We support blue collar jobs, “he said.
“Another lie,” one of the men shouted.
The Illawarra Wind Project has been the subject of hot debate since the plans were first revealed by the Albanian government in June last year.
Local activists are furious and claim that the project – originally planned to provide 1.8 million houses in the entire state – to influence the view of the coast of the local jobs and to jeopardize marine life.
Alex O'Brien, president of the responsible future Illawarra, was one of those who took the opportunity to confront Mr Albanese.
“Our group came here because we heard that the prime minister would be here, and the Labor Party continued to refuse the opportunity to talk to our community about the offshore wind farm,” he told Sky News.
That said, their worries seemed to have been heard when the federal government decided last year to scale the proposed wind zone with a third and agreed to move it further offshore.
Shortly thereafter, the Norwegian company Equinor and its Australian partner Oceanex scraped their plans to develop the project and shed an uncertain light on the viability of the project.
