Federal election 2019: more of Luke Creasey’s Facebook posts emerge

Luke Creasey forced to quit as offensive jokes about child abuse, female friend’s sex life emerge.

The Labor candidacy for Melbourne of Luke Creasey (pictured with Bill Shorten) is under pressure over Facebook comments he made as a 22-year-old.

Embattled ALP candidate Luke Creasey became the latest candidate to fall foul of the internet’s long memory today after he was forced to resign as posts emerged showing he joked online about child abuse, watching his female friend have sex with multiple people and about her wanting someone to “roughly take her virginity”.

As the Liberal’s Lyons candidate Jessica Whelan this morning stood down over anti-Muslim posts she had posted on Facebook, Mr Creasey announced his resignation, saying in a statement that his fate should remind young people “your social media footprint will follow you”.

Earlier, Labor leader Bill Shorten defended Mr Creasey over his posts from 2012, before declaring he would review the 27-year-old’s position.

His resignation means Mr Creasey has become the fourth candidate to become a victim of his own crude and offensive online remarks.

In a post from 2011, the latest to emerge, Mr Creasey shared a Facebook meme which reads: “Religion is like a penis / It’s fine to have one / It’s fine to be proud of it / but please don’t whip it around in public and start waving it around / and PLEASE don’t shove it down our children’s throats.”

In 2012, he told friends on Facebook that one of his female friends wanted someone to have sex with her.

“Can’t keep that girl away … or her clothes on. In fact she was just chilling on my couch on her towel just before. She was just saying how she wishes she had a bisexual education student to roughly take her virginity,” he wrote online.

When other friends, male and female, joked they would take the friend’s virginity, Mr Creasey wrote that they could watch the woman having sex.

“We can all watch!” Mr Creasey wrote.

“Wait wait wait! You should all do her together. Golden opportunity, .... you’re a lucky man.”

Luke Creasey's lewd Facebook posts.

Bill Shorten today slammed Mr Creasey’s history of lewd Facebook jokes but defended him because the Melbourne candidate has apologised and wrote them when he was in his early twenties.

Victorian Labor’s factions have been divided over whether to disendorse him.

Scott Morrison said Mr Creasey’s age was no excuse for the content of his posts and Bill Shorten should deal with his embattled candidate.

“That is not a defence, it is not an excuse. He may well be contrite but the issue is not whether he’s contrite, it is whether that’s a standard that Bill Shorten is prepared to accept,” he said in Melbourne.

“And only Bill Shorten can explain why he’s prepared to accept the young man’s defence when it comes to excusing this sort of behaviour.”

Other victims of the internet’s memory include Peter Killin, the Liberal candidte for Wills, who quit over homophobic comments and Jeremy Hearn, Liberal candidate for Isaacs, who was also forced out over anti-Muslim posts.