Boscutti Report — George Christensen

BRISBANE (Boscutti Report) — MP George Christensen has used the resignation of Barnaby Joyce to call on the National Party to formally extend its coalition with the Liberal Party to include the Labor Party, Greens, and Australian Conservatives. The outspoken Queensland MP posted on Facebook that in the absence of an elected federal leader, the National Party should push ‘the reset button’ and bring together all political parties together under a Super Coalition. ‘It’s time for Australia to get the unified government it deserves,’ he said. ‘No more boring elections, not more mitigating scandals, no more rubbish. Just a single-minded...

BRISBANE (Boscutti Report) — Queensland Liberal National Party Politician George Christensen has apologised over a Facebook post showing him holding a handgun with the comment ‘Do you feel lucky, greenie punks?’ Ben Pennings, who is running for the lead position on the Queensland Greens Senate ticket, said he sent police the screenshot of Christensen’s post after receiving ‘numerous’ death threats from central and north Queensland. Mr Christensen said he ‘apologised unreservedly’. ‘It was a daft thing to do,’ he said. ‘Not even remotely funny.’