Liberal Party Dumps Williamstown Candidate Over Indigenous Slurs

The Victorian Liberal Party has disendorsed its candidate Paul Lindemann for offensive comments regarding Indigenous Australians made under a secret Facebook alias.

Lindemann, who joined the party last year and was selected as the candidate for the seat of Williamstown, used an anonymised account named after his yacht to post racist tropes. Under this identity, he described Indigenous people as "never civilised" and referred to them using derogatory terms such as "half-breed," "full-blood," and "half-cast." He also claimed that Aboriginal Australians were the most primitive humans on Earth.

The party statement declared his comments offensive and unacceptable. Lindemann later issued an apology, stating he should have handled the situation differently.