A wee storm is erupting within the Liberal Party over some Young Liberal shenanigans (within the Melbourne Uni Liberal Club, to be precise)
Sunday’s Herald Sun reported:
Lib is facing fresh scandals
THE Young Liberal embroiled in a Big Brother-style sex scandal is being investigated over alleged racist and anti-semitic slurs.
Brendan Rowswell, media officer for Indi MP Sophie Mirabella, was investigated last month by party bosses over claims he “nuzzled” his head into a female colleague’s chest.
Mr Rowswell is now facing claims of an alleged “racist slur” in a photograph caption in Right Angles, a magazine he edited. He also is fighting claims he launched into an anti-semitic rant against a Jewish colleague. Muslim leaders want Prime Minister John Howard to investigate the claim over the magazine.
Andrew Landeryou has a copy of that secretly recorded anti-semitic rant, and has provided a transcript, from which we now quote the most racist bits:
BRENDAN ROWSWELL: “… I’ll put on my rollerskates, and I’ll roll [Michael Gubieski (Melbourne Uni Jewish Students Society President)] … I think that’s exactly what needs to be done to this little Jewish cunt”
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BRENDAN ROWSWELL: I saw a picture of an Aboriginal once so I am Aboriginal, I can be Italian, I can be Greek too
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After some discussion of Andrew Campbell’s (President of Melbourne Uni Liberal Club) recent trip to Africa;
ADAM McKEE (some guy from MULC): Did you bring me a slave?
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BRENDAN ROWSWELL: “We could have it Friday rather than Thursday. What about the Jews? Ah fuck them”
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ANDREW CAMPBELL: “I think that Michael, you know, as much of a Jew as he is, he’s a very poor politician”
Charming stuff from the possible future leaders of this country. If we were Brendan Rowswell’s employer (MP for Indi, Sophie Mirabella) we’d be strapping Brenno’s rollerskates on and pushing him out the door. The rest of the young libs involved in this mess need a good clip around the ears too.
Update:
See also, Junior Libs accused of Jewish slur, Herald Sun, Sep 4 2006.
Update 2:
Andrew Landeryou reports that three of the young libs implicated in this mess have withdrawn from student politics - and Sophie Mirabella isn’t terribly happy with Mr. Rowswell.
