Labor MP Anna Watson ‘trips' into young Lib volunteer
NSW Labor MP Anna Watson claimed she 'tripped' after barging into a young man handing out how-to-vote cards for a Liberal candidate.
The bizarre altercation took place outside a polling booth in the seat of Whitlam on the New South Wales South Coast.
Ms Watson, who was helping out as a volunteer for Labor's Carol Berry, was filmed shoving into the volunteer for Coalition hopeful Nathaniel Smith.
'I'm sorry, that's my spot,' she said, pushing the young man out of his way.
'Sorry about that! Sorry about that!'
'Ooh, a bit phyiscal,' the Liberal volunteer replied as he moved away from the conflict.
'No, no, I tripped over my own feet,' Watson insisted.
The seat of Whitlam has already been the centre of plenty of controversy in the lead-up to the federal election.
Peter Dutton was forced to dump his candidate Benjamin Britton after it emerged he had once claimed the Defence Force 'need to remove females from combat corps' in order to 'fix' our military.
News.com.au first revealed that in a series of fringe podcast interviews before his December preselection, Mr Britton blamed 'diversity and equity quotas, Marxist ideology and woke ideologies' for weakening Australia's defence.
Mr Britton, who served Australia in the 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, pointed to the Federal Government's 2013 decision to lift gender restrictions on frontline combat positions.
The Liberal Party took swift action, telling news.com.au he was no longer a candidate on April 6.
'The Administrative Committee of the NSW Division met today and has endorsed Nathaniel Smith as the Liberal candidate for the seat of Whitlam,' he said.
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