Victorian Socialists candidate Sue Munro hits out at police in online rant

A Victorian Socialists candidate in the Werribee by-election has claimed Victoria Police are overpaid and defended Hamas in a shocking series of online comments.

A Socialist candidate has said police are overpaid and “worth zero” and has defended Hamas in a shocking series of online comments.

Sue Munro, who regularly attends CBD protests, has claimed Victoria Police are overpaid compared to other emergency services and refused to condemn Hamas’ October 7 terror attack in southern Israel.

The Victorian Socialists candidate, who is running in the Werribee by-election, has been preferenced fifth out of 12 candidates by Labor and second by the Greens.

In the midst of a protracted pay dispute between the police union, Victoria Police and the Allan government, Ms Munro shared a photo of a police car with the words “Raygun will win gold before we are paid what we are worth” written across the back windscreen, accompanied with the caption: “Well they are worth 0.”

Victorian Socialists candidate Sue Munro.

Asked by the Herald Sun why she believed police were worth zero, Ms Munro said police are “paid significantly more, and are much better resourced, than other essential workers like nurses and teachers”.

“A society that cuts back on things like housing, healthcare, education, and social

services in favour of ever more police and prisons is a society that has failed,” she said.

Ms Munro also clapped back at a Jewish group for condemning a university event which appeared to be in support proscribed terrorist organisation Hamas.

“Hamas exists because of the general trauma you all put Palestinians through!!” she wrote in the comments.

“Long live the rebels,” she added.

Ms Munro regularly attends CBD protests. Picture: Diego Fedele

In a separate post in February last year, Ms Munro claimed that Israel was part of “occupied” Palestine.

“It is not Israel it is the occupied state of Palestinian,” she wrote.

“It is not war it is genocide.”

The Socialist candidate sought to defend her comments when questioned by the Sunday Herald Sun, saying that she was referring to “all Palestinians resisting their oppression”.

She dodged multiple questions about whether she would condemn Hamas’ October 7 massacre in Israel, in which 1200 people were slaughtered.

Senior Liberal, Jewish MP, David Southwick called out Labor and the Greens for preferencing Ms Munro above multiple other candidates, including the Liberal Party.

“It is appalling that the Premier would preference an anti-Semite and somebody that sees zero value to Victoria Police at a time when we have the kinds of escalating crime and law and order in our state,” he said.

The administrative branch of the Victorian Labor Party, which is responsible for choosing how to preference candidates, was contacted for comment.

Originally published as Victorian Socialists candidate Sue Munro hits out at police in online rant