Trucks with billboards depicting phrase alongside Allan wearing a black pointed hat have been seen around Melbourne for about six weeks
‘Disgusted’: Gillard and Albanese condemn ‘ditch the witch’ campaign against Victorian premier Jacinta Allan Trucks with billboards depicting phrase alongside Allan wearing a black pointed hat have been seen around Melbourne for about six weekswhich have been seen travelling through Melbourne for about six weeks, also ran AI-generated images of Allan wearing a black pointed hat and with warts on her chin, in between advertisements for a brothel.
Albanese told reporters in Canberra on Monday the “sexist” advertising campaign was “totally unacceptable and has no place in public life”.
“We want to encourage women to enter public life and it should be a contest of ideas, not personal attacks,” he said. “What I don’t want to do is to have a press conference in this courtyard after a tragedy,” Albanese said, citing an increased number of threats being made against politicians.
He also said some of the “personal ways” in which “mainstream media” has “characterised people in public life has just got to stop”, though he did not give specific examples. Gillard referenced the poster in her famous “misogyny speech” in Australian parliament that went viral around the world and was later voted by “I was offended when the leader of the opposition went outside in the front of parliament and stood next to a sign that said ‘Ditch the witch’,” Gillard said in the rousing speech.
Another poster referred to the then-PM as “Bob Browns bitch”, a reference to the Greens leader whom Gillard had formed a minority government with.about a possible leadership spill against Allan “A truck using sexist language has been driving around Melbourne as part of a secret and well-funded political campaign,” she said.
“People are entitled to disagree with me. That’s democracy. But I care that this attacks women. And I care about who’s next.
” The Age reports the trucks with billboards featuring the phrase were paid in part by Franco Puleo, the owner of the Gotham City brothel in South Melbourne.
“ doesn’t answer questions. She’s not accountable to everything … It’s just how people are feeling. That’s what they’re resorting to,” he reportedly said. The Victorian attorney general, Sonya Kilkenny, was among several state Labor MPs who criticised the campaign on social media.
“Women in public life should not have to accept abuse and misogyny as part of the job. You can disagree with a politician. You can disagree with a government. That’s democracy.
Reducing a woman to a sexist slur is not,” Kilkenny wrote. The Victorian opposition leader, Jess Wilson, said the opposition had no involvement in the billboards, describing them as “inappropriate”.
“That sort of language, that sort of discourse, should never be used in politics. We shouldn’t see this happening on our streets,” Wilson said.
However, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, told Allan, via Sky News: “Suck it up, sweetheart. ” She said had been called a witch, “long before” Allan, including by politicians.
“Besides, Jacinta, I’ll tell you something, I’ve heard on the grapevine, you won’t be there in a couple of weeks,” Hanson said.
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