If the Federal Independent Member for New England, Tony Windsor, has upset some voters by supporting Labor as a minority federal government after the August 2010 general election – then he has obviously also enraged others by being part of the committee which brought forth the carbon price mechanism proposal recently announced by the Gillard Government.
Below is but one example of the ire created by public political discourse to date.
At 1.24am on 4 March 2011 someone calling themselves Enidblyton11 edited a Wikipedia unauthorised biography page for the Independent Member for New England to read:
Antony Harold Curties "Tony" Windsor (2 September 1950 - 4 March 2011), an Australian politician, was the independent member of the House of Representatives since 2001, representing the Division of New England, New South Wales. Prior to his election to the federal parliament, Windsor was an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1991 to 2001, representing the electoral district of Tamworth. He became the first federal political to be assasinated in Australian history.[1][2]
A later edit at 1.47am added the assassination claim in the page sidebar.
At 1.50am the claim on Wikipedia was added to in this manner:
He became the first federal political to be assasinated in Australian history (Yes Ray Hadley It's a hack, Just so you know, Wikipedia's articles are open to editing by the user, and is the nature of Wikipedia itself) .[1][2]
The last attempt to keep the political assassination claim alive on Wikipedia occurred around 2.33am and was finally removed by another around 3.02am.
Enidblyton11 had also added the claim to 2011 Australia where it survived until 3.10am.
At 4.41am Enidblyton11 stated that his account was hacked in order to perpetrate this startling and malicious hoax, however at least one other Wikipedia editor has disputed that assertion.
By 4pm Tony Windsor was being reported as stating that he is referring the matter to the Australian Federal Police.
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