A Facebook page managed by the president of a local Labor branch in Queensland has been sharing incendiary posts, including claims that Liberal MP Gladys Liu is a Chinese spy, an ABC investigation has found.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the ALP said the Facebook page "is not an official or authorised page, and we do not endorse its content"."Facebook is responsible for applying its terms and conditions to unauthorised pages," the spokesperson wrote.
The Daily Telegraph found that the page described itself as the "official page of the Australian Labor Party Balmain Branch" and shared an offensive post showing Treasurer Josh Frydenberg photoshopped into a Nazi uniform under the caption "Bogan's Heroes". Other posts include likening Tony Abbott's former chief of staff Peta Credlin to a witch, and attacking the PM for his Pentecostal faith.
The Liberal Party has repurposed a report by the Daily Telegraph, using it as campaign material to attack the Labor Party. "It's fair to say that there is a fair amount of tension often between the national executive and the local branch level that often they're being let run fairly autonomously," he told the ABC.
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