By NICK WILSON FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 23:53 GMT, 13 February 2025 | Updated: 00:05 GMT, 14 February 2025

Anthony Albanese has been heckled and booed by wind farm activists who told him to ‘go home’ as he greeted supporters on NSW’s South Coast. 

The Prime Minister visited a BlueScope Steelworks centre in Lake Illawarra on Friday to announce the Labor candidate for Whitlam. 

But the meet and greet descended into chaos after it was hijacked by anti-offshore wind farm activists protesting the event. 

‘What’s going on there? Why don’t we put them in your f***ing place. Put them in front of your bloody mansion,’ one man yelled. 

Another man told Mr Albanese to ‘go home’. 

‘You don’t respect the regions, we don’t want your wind farms,’ he said.

‘Get out of here Albo, we don’t want you here.’

The incident has been likened to when then-prime minister Scott Morrison was heckled as he greeted locals in the bushfire-ravaged town of Cobargo. 

Anthony Albanese has been heckled and booed by wind farm activists who told him to ‘go home’ as he greeted supporters on NSW’s South Coast

'What's going on there? Why don't we put them in your f***ing place. Put them in front of your bloody mansion,' one man yelled (pictured)

‘What’s going on there? Why don’t we put them in your f***ing place. Put them in front of your bloody mansion,’ one man yelled (pictured)

In footage from the now infamous meet-and-greet, Mr Morrison can be seen forcibly taking the hand of a firefighter who had said that he didn’t wish to shake his hand.

One person told Mr Morrison he should be ‘ashamed of himself’ and said he had ‘left the country to burn’ while another called him a ‘mutt’.   

Mr Albanese appeared unfazed by the interruptions to his press conference as the men continued to boo from mere metres away. 

‘Nice to have you here mate,’ Mr Albanese said. 

The hecklers started up again as the prime minister said he ‘had the back’ of the blue collar jobs in the steel industry. 

‘My message is clear which is ‘We have got your back’. We support blue collar jobs,’ he said.

‘Another lie,’ one of the men yelled out. 

More to come.  

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