Independent MP for Calare caught doing an ‘Angus Taylor’ by replying to a Facebook post from his own accountInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAndrew Gee, an independent MP for Calare in New South Wales, has been caught doing an “Angus Taylor” by replying to a Facebook post from his own account.Gee posted a statement on Facebook on Friday accusing the Nationals of engaging in “dirty tactics” on day one of the election, claiming they had called an elderly constituent and spread “blatant lies about who I was going to preference in this election”. Continue reading…Independent MP for Calare caught doing an ‘Angus Taylor’ by replying to a Facebook post from his own accountInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAndrew Gee, an independent MP for Calare in New South Wales, has been caught doing an “Angus Taylor” by replying to a Facebook post from his own account.Gee posted a statement on Facebook on Friday accusing the Nationals of engaging in “dirty tactics” on day one of the election, claiming they had called an elderly constituent and spread “blatant lies about who I was going to preference in this election”. Continue reading…
Andrew Gee, an independent MP for Calare in New South Wales, has been caught doing an “Angus Taylor” by replying to a Facebook post from his own account.
Gee posted a statement on Facebook on Friday accusing the Nationals of engaging in “dirty tactics” on day one of the election, claiming they had called an elderly constituent and spread “blatant lies about who I was going to preference in this election”.
In a comment underneath the post, Gee appeared to reply to his own post, thanking himself for being the “good guy” compared to the Nationals and the “Teal mob”.
“Thank you Andrew Gee MP I am new to the area and have received texts from the Nationals and seen nasty ads in the paper from the Teal mob, it has helped me see who is the good guy,” the comment read.
It was later deleted and comments on the post were restricted to Gee’s followers.
Guardian Australia has approached Gee for comment.
In a statement provided to the Daily Telegraph, a spokesman for Gee said the post was made without his knowledge by a “new and inexperienced member of the campaign team” who had access to the MP’s social media account.
The staffer knew it was an “extremely disappointing and unacceptable thing to do”, the spokesman said, adding that “Gee does not condone, approve of or support under any circumstances”.
Gee was elected in 2016 as a member of the Nationals before he quit the party and joined the crossbench in late 2022 due to the party’s opposition to the Voice to Parliament referendum.
He will re-contest the seat against his former party as an indepdendent.
Social media users drew parallels between the post one made in 2019 by Liberal MP, Angus Taylor, who replied to his own Facebook post congratulating himself for announcing new car parks at Campbelltown station, writing: “Fantastic. Well done Angus. Great move”.
A spokesperson for Taylor later said the comment was a “simple mistake” that occurred when an admin of the Facebook page was switching between accounts.
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