{"id":851725,"date":"2026-06-08T00:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/851725\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T00:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:11:18","slug":"anthony-albanese-julia-gillard-join-victorian-premier-jacinta-allan-in-denouncing-sexist-billboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/851725\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Albanese, Julia Gillard join Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan in denouncing sexist billboards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victorian premier Jacinta Allan says a mobile billboard seen in the Melbourne CBD featuring a doctored image of herself alongside the phrase “ditch the witch”, is sexist and part of a “corrosive” political debate.<\/p>\n

“A billboard truck using sexist language has been driving around Melbourne as part of a secret and well-funded political campaign,” Ms Allan said on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“People are entitled to disagree with me. That’s democracy. But I care that this attacks women.”<\/p>\n

The premier said political debate had become “corrosive” in the last few years and behaviour that once would have been condemned is now “just another part of life”.<\/p>\n

The same derogatory phrase was infamously used on a sign, which then federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott stood beside<\/a>, during a protest against former prime minister Julia Gillard in 2011.<\/p>\n

Ms Gillard released a statement saying she was “disgusted” by the use of the same slogan 15 years later.<\/p>\n

“It was roundly condemned then. In the years since, my view has been that things were slowly improving for women in politics,” she said via Instagram.<\/p>\n

“I am saddened to see that improvement cast aside and this tired old trope resurrected.”<\/p>\n

Ms Gillard labelled those responsible for funding the anti-Allan signs “sexists” and called for the signs to be removed.<\/p>\n

“Why should women and girls in Victoria be subjected to such visible misogyny?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

she said.<\/p>\n

Other federal and state Labor MPs have criticised the signs since yesterday, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The sexist campaign targeting the Victorian premier is totally unacceptable and has no place in public life,” he told reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n

“You can have a disagreement with peoples’ policy position, by all means, you don’t have to denigrate people in such a personal way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Young girls will see that, you know, depiction of a premier as a witch, just like the denigration that Julia Gillard suffered from as Prime Minister, and it is just not on.”<\/p>\n

\"Anthony<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister strongly criticised the ad campaign targeting Jacinta Allan during a press conference on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Federal deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume on Monday echoed the prime minister and premier’s statements.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Sexism has no place in politics,” she told Sky News.<\/p>\n

“It’s perfectly fair and reasonable to criticise a policy, it’s perfectly fair and reasonable to criticise a party, it’s perfectly fair and reasonable to criticise a politician, but you don’t need to go to gender in order to do that.”<\/p>\n

The Victorian Opposition said on Sunday it was not behind the ad campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0“The Liberals and Nationals will never take that kind of attitude, we don’t believe in that type of thing,” Liberal MP David Southwick told reporters.<\/p>\n

“We don’t condone that kind of behaviour. Our thoughts are certainly focus on the government because the government are the problem, not the individual.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victorian premier Jacinta Allan says a mobile billboard seen in the Melbourne CBD featuring a doctored image of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":851726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,347889,73629,156605,17127,50,88788,28362,94917],"class_list":["post-851725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-australia","tag-ditch-the-witch","tag-jacinta-allan","tag-julia-gillard","tag-liberal-party","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-sexism","tag-tony-abbott"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116711594832348673","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}