Albo’s ‘Cobargo second’ as he is heckled and booed by passing locals

Anthony Albanese has been heckled and booed by wind farm activists who told him to ‘go home’ as he greeted supporters on NSW‘s South Coast. 

The Prime Minister visited a BlueScope Steelworks centre in Port Kembla on Friday before stopping off at Lake Illawarra to announce the Labor candidate for Whitlam. 

But the meet and greet descended into chaos after it was hijacked by anti-offshore wind farm activists protesting the event. 

‘What’s going on there? Why don’t we put them in your f***ing place. Put them in front of your bloody mansion,’ one man yelled. 

Another man told Mr Albanese to ‘go home’. 

‘You don’t respect the regions, we don’t want your wind farms,’ he said.

‘Get out of here Albo, we don’t want you here.’

The incident has been likened to when then-prime minister Scott Morrison was heckled as he greeted locals in the bushfire-ravaged town of Cobargo. 

Anthony Albanese has been heckled and booed by wind farm activists who told him to ‘go home’ as he greeted supporters on NSW’s South Coast

‘What’s going on there? Why don’t we put them in your f***ing place. Put them in front of your bloody mansion,’ one man yelled (pictured)

In footage from the now infamous meet-and-greet, Mr Morrison can be seen forcibly shaking the hand of a reluctant firefighter. 

One person told Mr Morrison he should be ‘ashamed of himself’ and said he had ‘left the country to burn’ while another called him a ‘mutt’.   

Mr Albanese appeared unfazed by the interruptions to his press conference as the men continued to boo from mere metres away. 

‘Nice to have you here mate,’ Mr Albanese said. 

The hecklers started up again as the prime minister said he ‘had the back’ of the blue collar jobs in the steel industry. 

‘My message is clear which is ‘We have got your back’. We support blue collar jobs,’ he said.

‘Another lie,’ one of the men yelled out. 

The Illawarra wind project has been the subject of hot debate since plans were first unveiled by the Albanese government in June last year. 

Local activists are furious, claiming the project – originally planned to power 1.8 million homes statewide – would muddy up the coastline views, affect local jobs, and endanger marine life. 

Alex O’Brien, president of Responsible Future Illawarra, was among those who took the opportunity to confront Mr Albanese. 

‘Our group came down here because we heard the Prime Minister was going to be here, and the Labor Party have continued to decline the opportunity to speak to our community about the offshore wind farm,’ he told Sky News. 

That said, their concerns appeared to have been heard when, last year, the federal government decided to move the win zone further offshore and scale back the proposed zone by one-third. 

Shortly after, Norwegian firm Equinor and its Australian partner Oceanex scrapped their plans to develop the project, casting an uncertain light on its future.