But the response from the captain, Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington, left party insiders frustrated.
"We've got to stop celebrating a culture that couldn't even invent the bloody wheel for God's sake," a teenager proclaimed — while Mr McGain smirked beside him.Instead, at her initial press conference, she delivered an almost robotic repetition of the well-rehearsed line"it's inappropriate and the party is taking action".Her handing of the situation left some in the party scratching their heads, with several insiders suggesting it showed a lack of leadership.
Less than a year out from the Queensland election, at a time when the LNP had been actively trying to shift its brand to proactive and positive, they were forced into defence-mode. Party insiders told the ABC a number of similar concerns about young LNP members had been previously forwarded up the chain and not acted on immediately."Sometimes, some young people don't always make the best judgements and that's true in many areas of the community," the spokesman said.
Yes! Just check out Sharma MP's tan!
Privileged and casually racist I would think
Both
Racism, the parents and political party the influence too.
Young Liberal National Party leaders, I hope not.
Where do you think they learned this ?
They train them young in Young Liberals.
Racism is a requirement for conservatives.
Rascist ofc and the has become an infomercial for the LNP. Shame. These brats should never represent Australians and expulsion, not suspension needed. We know your fascist Govt have found unchartered lows recently, but really read the fucking room on this one.
Racist
conservatism is the product of bad parenting
Certainly they are racist.
Dumb as a bag of bricks
They are racist wannabe politicians. Probably can't believe they were even pinged on this. Aren't they just saying out loud what every LNP politician thinks. I'm sure the Y.Libs believe that is true.
Pathetic abc call it out for what it is. Race baiting.
We should be nothing but proud of the amazing story and culture of indigenous Australians. We should celebrate their resilience in the face of their dispossession. We should have a Treaty, tell the Truth and humbly request they elect a representative Voice to advise our leaders.
One day Google and Apple will accidentally release billions of conversations recorded secretly from your phone or home device and every single person will be found guilty of racism, ageism, sexism, islamophobic, transphobic, and any other new isms yet to be invented.
Discovery of the wheel, written language, structured culture. By any benchmark the Australian aborigine's isolation from other cultures inhibited development. That's a fact. Unless you read Pascoe's book and have doubts. Suspension from Liberal party for stupidity seems fair.
Well they are entitled to their opinion and freedom to express them even if by PC standards they aren't the full bottle. They don't endorse Aboriginal cultural promotion...SO WHAT?
Imagine being so racist that your party is bringing in 800,000 immigrants in a single year...
Behaviour that is rewarded will be repeated.
Racist, no doubt about it.
Totally racist
Live & well ...,
What analysis? That article has zero analysis in it. It should be categorised as QUESTIONSONLYIDIOTSASKBECAUSETHEANSWERISSOFUCKINGOBVIOUS
Rich “elite” Private School Tory Wankers
Ignorant. Self entitled. Possibly.
Racist, definitely racist, it cant be anything else. No excuses.
Young, foolish AND racist, or a young foolish racist? Uneducated and ignorant, miseducated and ignorant, or wilfully ignorant via confirmation bias?
Is the ABC making excuses for abusive brats? Want them in parliament?
Without disparaging others it is important for all Australians to be thankful for the extraordinary achievements of western civilisation over the last 200 years, eg) nuclear fission, space travel, artificial intelligence and perhaps most importantly for all of us, modern medicine
MrQLD An example of the vulnerabilities such as dysfunctional perception bias, that extremist groups exploit in order to recruit members & commission serious violent offences.
'just young and foolish' Well done abc for the ridiculous click bait. These kids have destroyed their political.... Oh you said libs. Then of course we can't call them racist or the AFP will raid you again. heilmorrisson heildutton fucktheafp
I note most tweets on the ABC news site are left leaning. Twitter is not representative of the general public and this is how the left got the election so wrong. They feed off each other and start believing the nonsense.
Half of Australian's support Lib/Nats. Obviously there will be obnoxious behaviour from any group. I find most of the crudeness on twitter comes from the left. Trying to link the entire liberal party to a couple of young silly people demonstrates the bias of the ABC
They are all of the above. Lets not forget that people are not born racist they are set an example of racism that most end following and passing on to the next gen.
At there age it's what sort of lauguage they heard at home. So my personal view is Raise a Good decent Human being. No Rocket science, think of others as your equal fellow Human being. It's difficult but........got to be done.
Why blur the face of that kid uttering the racist drivel? He is a plant, has been photgraphed with numerous LNP folks.
Young liberals look as I expected
He was way to comfortable in his comment, why block the little cowards face out. And invent the wheel, why event it when we our ancestors walked freely and calmly on their land, and if they did invent it noone would have used it because someone black invented it.
They only mix with their own kind- therefore pass on only what they hear.
Racist young man! Each individual should be responsible for his/her own actions.
'Racist, entitled with a superiority complex' and 'young and foolish' are not mutually exclusive.
Racism is foolishness
If you don't know ABC, you're part of the problem.
They have learned their racism from home no doubt
Let's not be apologists. People unpleasantly rip into 16 yo Greta Thunberg for her words and actions. Why are these boys held to different standards for the choices they make? If you're old enough to decide to be a young Lib you're old enough to be accountable for yr opinions.
Privileged, Rich, Indoctrinated, Influenced, Inhumane, Racist, Controlled and Self-Centred. Just following the party line and perfect for it.
Isn't it interesting a political party that draws in these type of people are always surprised when they find out that their bigoted? Is it just my looney left side showing?
Just typical of this demographic. In over 50 years, this is normal male (in Aust) behaviour. Contemporary pc class wake and realise the truth.
The ABC race baiting again. No surprises here.
Racist. Full stop
Of course they are.
Here is a simple equation set that only a moron would fail to understand, and a lair deny the truth of. culture ≠ race science ≠ race DNA = race religion = culture art = culture engineering = applied science science = applied maths maths = universal truth
They are most definitely young and foolish. But like all young people, they have been influenced by their parents and heroes. Perhaps if the community leaders weren't so racist, these kids wouldn't be either.
YES they are , just trying to be disgusting Privileged Smart Arses born to Pillage , wreck the Country, its in their DNA
Racist, and yes. SBSNews
Racist!
Young, stupid and and racist but their individual actions are not a reflection of the whole LNP.
All of the above.
They're speaking the truth.. Deal with it
Can we pin it on their party or do we hold them individually responsible regardless of the party they are part of ?
Is it racism to mock 'white' or Aussie culture? If the answer is no, then the above is not racism either.
People laugh at Dave Chapelles racist jokes and nobody says anything. Honestly it's to the point that accusing white people of racism is hate speech.
Racist
These kids have heard this statement before and repeated without some critical thinking. The adults that interact with these two should be ashamed and embarrassed.
He smiled at his friends comments... if that’s racism then we really have hit peak Wokeism
With LNP rhetoric stuck on ‘repeat’!
One things is fairly certain, they don't have a political future, won't be allowed to forget their comments.
It’s obviously racism.
This is how it starts. Young people following the lead of the 'adults'. It's why the lack of leadership by the party is appalling.
Yes foolish in a racist party
They would have joined hitler youth in the day
Young racists, apprentice skynews couch potatos
All of the above, apples don’t fall far from the tree. A bunch of junior fascists if I ever saw some.
Yes yes and yes
Their party’s lead is racist so it’s not either or
Leftard overlords have spoken. Laughing is now racist.
I take it this is a rhetorical question
I did not see them doing or saying anything that was bigoted or racist. This is a disgusting false portrait of what these young people said. This is ABC Bias
I don’t think anyone was surprised That really says it all We know what drives these people Arrogant, condescending, born to rule and oblivious to the condition of anyone but themselves
Old enough to know better
Grog brings out peoples real feelings........perfect example of Australia's quiet racism. I think we are up ourselves a bit.
If they are members of the party they share their party's values. Their party is racist as fuck.
Please don't excuse racism with 'boys will be boys', they ABSOLUTELY know better than this.
.allysonhorn do you really want to go down the path of dismissing this behaviour as 'young & foolish'? Of course they're 'following their party's lead' esp that of Sen James McGrath who had to resign as Boris Johnson's aide over his own 'racist' comments.
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Typical Young LNP trash
Oh ffs.
I blame the parents.
Young + white + male + Australian = both.
The first question is falsely framed as a dichotomy. The second question should have a rhetorical question mark - '⸮'.
Liberals have a whistle. It is quite high pitched. Decent Australians cannot hear it.
All of the above
All of the above?
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