Well, it was probably inevitable. Someone’s gone and tried to give Scott Morrison an egging.
.@tomwconnell: It looks like the egg basically bounces straight off @ScottMorrisonMP. This has just happened at the Country Women’s Association.
MORE: https://t.co/cnxAXrLKY3 #newsday pic.twitter.com/X1YUyWrvQC
— Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) May 7, 2019
It seems like an activist tried to go for it at a Country Women’s Association event in Albury. Video from Sky News above shows that the egg kind of just bounces right off his dome at high speed, suggesting either a soft head or a tough egg. Impossible to say which!
We’re not looking at a successful Fraser Anning style egging here. This is, at best, an amateur effort. You come at the king, etc.
Video from the ground – like this one from Ten News – indicate that an older woman was knocked to the ground during the scuffle between the protester and Morrison’s security detail.
BREAKING. The moment a young woman is wrestled away after trying to egg @ScottMorrisonMP at a #CWA event in Albury. Protestor knocked over an elderly woman. #AUSVotes19 #auspol @10NewsFirst pic.twitter.com/afQ8Q9g8QE
— Jonathan Lea (@JonathanLea10) May 7, 2019
Footage from the Courier Mail posted after reporters pursued the alleged egger shows the protester saying she didn’t intend to knock the old woman over. It’s not really clear from the footage whether it was her or the seccies who did it.
This girl says she’s sorry an older woman got caught up in the debacle – she brought a 6 pack of eggs pic.twitter.com/EHWxSBCdVb
— Domanii Cameron (@domaniicameron) May 7, 2019
Here is (allegedly) the unbroken egg in question:
A protester thrown an egg the Prime Minister Scott Morrison at an event in Albury (it didn’t break). #auspol #ausvotes @politicsabc pic.twitter.com/7KYWbKrrun
— Dan Conifer (@DanConifer) May 7, 2019
There you go, folks. If you’re looking for a political egging, this is not a strong effort. We’ll have to wait for Scott Morrison to issue a statement on all this, but he didn’t look particularly fazed when it went down.
