Labor-linked Facebook post ‘offensive’

TERRITORY Labor is unable to say if it will take action against those responsible for an offensive Facebook post about CLP candidate for Solomon Kathy Ganley

The ‘offensive’ post which appeared on a Facebook site

TERRITORY Labor is unable to say if it will take action against those responsible for an offensive Facebook post about CLP candidate for Solomon Kathy Ganley.

The post, made on the Young Labor-linked page Territory Memes for Statehood Teens, featured two figures in Ku Klux Klan robes superimposed with a banner which read “I stand with Kathy Ganley”. Accompanying text read: “hey sis, how’s the white plight going for ya? ”.

Ms Ganley said the post was inappropriate.

“It’s quite offensive; I’ve lived in the Territory my whole life,” she said. “To call me a racist is downright wrong.”

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A number of Young CLP members were suspended from the party late last year after making a post about Infrastructure Minister Eva Lawler in the days after her husband’s death, following an outcry from Labor staffers.

“I find it bizarre that Labor sits in judgment of the CLP and expects us to take action against our young people, but allow that to happen about me,” Ms Ganley said.

Territory Labor secretary Anthony Brereton said he was unaware of the page, which is liked by a number of high ranking fifth floor staffers and by Labor member Luke Gosling, but also said it was “nothing to do with (his) party”.

“There a number of internal processes and if there has been any inappropriate behaviour, we will deal with it,” he said.

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He was unable to say if those internal processes would be triggered.

After the publication of the this story online, the page posted an apology to Ms Ganley “for being offended”, while leaving the offending post up.

“Territory Memes for Statehood Memes (sic) is just two economics students trying to have a laugh with no connection to the NTG but an irrational attraction to Tony Sievers. We apologise to Ms Ganley for being offended,” it read.