Published: September 20, 2021
Olympic shooter and former coalminer Daniel Repacholi wrote that people who didn’t support coal should ‘sit in the dark and freeze’
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Anthony Albanese’s “captain’s pick” to run for Labor in the seat of Hunter, Daniel Repacholi, once suggested on social media that opponents of coalmining should “sit in the dark and freeze” in winter, stoking further anger among rank and file members about his preselection.
The party’s national executive met on Friday to agree on a process that will see Repacholi endorsed for the Hunter valley seat, which is being vacated by Labor’s long-serving right-aligned MP Joel Fitzgibbon.
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