Scott Morrison is EGGED by a protester at Liberal party event 

Scott Morrison is EGGED by a young female protester wearing a red beanie before she knocks down an elderly woman at Liberal party event

  • The Prime Minister was targeted at the Country Women’s Association in Albury
  • He was mingling with older women when an egg was thrown from behind him
  • The egg skimmed his head before bodyguards descended on the woman 
  • Do you know the protester? Email charlie.moore@mailonline.com

Scott Morrison has been egged by a female protester at a Liberal Party event.

The Prime Minister was targeted by a young woman wearing a red beanie and a feminist jumper at the Country Women’s Association in Albury, New South Wales.

He was mingling with and talking to a group of older women when an egg was launched from behind him and seemed to skim his head. 

This is the young woman who threw the egg at the Prime Minister in Albury on Tuesday

Mr Morrison was mingling with and talking to a group of older women when an egg was thrown from behind him and seemed to skim his head

Mr Morrison was mingling with and talking to a group of older women when an egg was thrown from behind him and seemed to skim his head

The Prime Minister appeared shocked and rubbed the back of his head. Pictured: The missile in mid air

The Prime Minister appeared shocked and rubbed the back of his head. Pictured: The missile in mid air

The Prime Minister appeared shocked and rubbed the back of his head as his bodyguards descended on the woman.

The egg was later found whole and unbroken. 

Videos circulating on social media showed a woman in a red hat being wrestled after the unsuccessful protest.

The melee caused an innocent woman to fall over – and Mr Morrison helped her up. 

After being removed from the venue, the protester was seen walking away while clutching a six-pack of eggs.

She ignored questions from reporters but apologised for the woman falling over.

‘No that was not my intention. I am sorry for that,’ she said.

The young woman was protesting the government’s asylum seeker policy of offshore detention. 

She told reporters that her action ‘speaks for itself.’

‘Have you seen his video to Manus Island?,’ she asked.

The protester was pictured smiling outside the event while still wearing the read beanie

The protester was pictured smiling outside the event while still wearing the read beanie 

When reporters questioned her further, she said she had to go to work and she had no comment.

She denied her protest was an act of aggression. 

‘It was the most harmless thing you can do,’ she said.  

Mr Morrison condemned the attack as ‘thuggery’ in a tweet after the event.

He wrote: ‘My concern about today’s incident in Albury was for the older lady who was knocked off her feet.

‘I helped her up and gave her a hug. Our farmers have to put up with these same idiots who are invading their farms and their homes.’

In a second tweet he compared the protest to the actions of unions. 

He wrote: ‘We will stand up to thuggery whether it’s these cowardly activists who have no respect for anyone, or militant unionists standing over small businesses and their employees on work sites.’

In March senate candidate Fraser Anning was egged at a rally in Melbourne.

The boy became a social media icon known as ‘Eggboy’ for his protest which involved smashing the egg over Anning’s head.

This is not the first time a Prime Minister has been targeted by missiles.

In 2013 children repeatedly threw sandwiches at Prime Minister Julia Gillard who was famously struck by white-bread salami sandwich at Lyneham High in Canberra.

The Prime Minister was targeted by a woman (pictured in a red hat) in Albury, New South Wales

The Prime Minister was targeted by a woman (pictured in a red hat) in Albury, New South Wales

 

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