Anti-lockdown protester makes disgusting slurs against Queensland Premier

An anti-lockdown protester in Brisbane has been heard making disturbing and violent comments about the Queensland Premier.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has been targeted by disgusting slurs at an anti-lockdown protest in Brisbane with a member of the crowd heard yelling threats.

Organisers were also forced to denounce a man wearing a hood and carrying a noose, telling him to ‘take that crap down and take it to your car’.

A Facebook live stream by an attendee named Justin Allen showed a sizeable crowd at the Botanic Garden as part of a co-ordinated nationwide protest against pandemic laws and vaccine mandates.

A scene from a Facebook live stream of the Brisbane anti-lockdown protest on Saturday.

About 12.30pm Mr Allen’s Facebook livestream showed announcers asking the crowd what they thought of Ms Palaszczuk.

Loud boos echoed around the gardens and one man off camera was twice heard yelling a sickening threat of “hang the b**ch”.

Announcers then asked another man to take a noose back to his car, telling him “take that crap down … this is not the place for stuff like that. Doesn’t matter what you’re trying to get at. We don’t want that crap here.”

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk at Queensland parliament in Brisbane. Picture: NCA NewsWire / John Gass

This was met with applause by the crowd.

United Australia Party chairman Clive Palmer is expected to address the rally this afternoon.

Earlier the crowd hear that the looming reopening of Queensland’s borders - and rules banning unvaccinated from certain venues - was akin to aparthied.

People were also told, incorrectly, that vaccines had taken “many more lives than the virus itself”.

More than 5.1 million people have died from the coronavirus worldwide.

Saturday’s incident follows disturbing scenes at protests in Melbourne this week where a gallows and noose was set up outside Victorian parliament, with a prop of Premier Daniel Andrews nearby.

Mr Andrews this week also accused Prime Minister Scott Morrison of “double speak” to pander to the votes of extremists.

“We have seen extremists, rabid anti-vaxxers and others making all sorts of threats, threats against me, my wife and my kids,” Mr Andrews told Channel 9.

“I‘m committed to doing what has to be done. I’m not about chasing, through doublespeak, the votes of extremists or their preferences.”

The Prime Minister on Friday condemned the protests, but also suggested he understood why the protesters were frustrated.

“I don‘t have sympathy for violence, I don’t have sympathy for threats,” Mr Morrison told reporters in Sydney.

“I have sympathy for Australians who have had a gutful of governments telling them what to do over the last two years.”

Originally published as Anti-lockdown protester makes disgusting slurs against Queensland Premier