Anthony Albanese booed, heckled over offshore wind farms while in Wollongong

The Prime Minister was booed by activists fuming over wind farms while greeting supporters at a media event on NSW’s South Coast.

Anthony Albanese has been heckled by anti offshore wind farm activists during a visit to a BlueScope Steelworks centre in NSW’s south coast.

The Prime Minister was greeting supporters in Wollongong when a passer-by began yelling at him.

A second man also approached the media event, telling Mr Albanese to “go home”.

At the time he was seen holding his young daughter and was filming the interaction with his phone.

“You don’t respect the regions, we don’t want your wind farms,” he said.

“Get out of here Albo, we don’t want you here.”

Anthony Albanese was heckled by anti-wind farm activists during a visit to a Bluecope Steelworks centre on NSW’s south coast. Picture: Sky News

Another activists protesting the event yelled: “Why don’t we put them in f***ing your place?, and “Put them in front of your bloody mansion”.

Mr Albanese appeared to ignore the men but they continued to interrupt the press conference, and could be heard “booing” and yelling out from the sidelines.

At one point Mr Albanese could be heard saying: “Nice to have you here mate”.

The activists became riled up again when Mr Albanese began talking about jobs in the steel industry.

“My message is clear which is ‘We have got your back’. We support blue collar jobs,” he said.

Anthony Albanese was badgered by at least two men protesting wind farms. Picture: ABC

One of the men then yelled out: “Another lie”.

Continuing, Mr Albanese said: “We support steel works here. I have been to the Steelworks on I don’t know how many times now. I have been going there for three decades. We continue to support jobs in the Illawarra and we support the steel works. My message to them today is: ‘We have got your back’.”

Mr Albanese was attending the event in the Illawarra to announce the Labor candidate for Whitlam, a Labor safe seat held by retiring minister Stephen Jones.

Former Greens candidate and disability advocate Carol Berry will contest the South Coast seat which Labor holds on a 10.1 per cent margin.

Mr Albanese was met by a number of locals. Picture: Sky News

One of the activists, Responsible Future Illawarra president Alex O’Brien, accused Labor of refusing to engage with the community on the offshore wind farms.

“Our group came down here because we heard the Prime Minister was going to be here, and the Labor Party have continued to decline the opportunity to speak to our community about the offshore wind farm,” he told Sky News.

Mr O’Brien said attempts to put forward community submissions at a Senate inquiry into offshore wind farms were also being delayed.

“We want transparency, and that was our message to the prime minister today,” he said.

When asked if he could guarantee the release of the report before the election, due by May 17, Mr Albanese said Labor did not control the Senate.

“You do know, we don’t control the Senate. We’ve got 25 votes out of 76,” he said.