NSW state election, Lane Cove fight: Teal Victoria Davidson volunteer argues ... trends now
A volunteer for a Teal Independent has been reported to police after allegedly lashing out at Liberal volunteers for taking up all the best poster spots for their candidate.
The vicious dispute, which was caught on video, erupted after Liberal volunteers arrived early on Thursday to seize the prime spots to display corflutes for their candidate, Anthony Roberts, outside the Lane Cove Council Civic Centre, on Sydney's exclusive north shore.
When Noel Plumb, a volunteer for Independent candidate Victoria Davidson, arrived at 6.30am, he was incensed to see the best spots gone.
He then allegedly threatened to tear down Mr Roberts' posters.
That's when Liberal campaign worker, Ben Collins, began to film Mr Plumb on his phone camera.
A volunteer for a Teal independent has been reported to police for allegedly assaulting a Liberal counterpart as election tensions boiled over between rival campaign workers
When Noel Plumb, a volunteer for Independent candidate Victoria Davidson, arrived at 6.30am, he was incensed to see the best spots were plastered with material promoting Liberal Anthony Roberts
One clip showed Mr Plumb marching up to Mr Collins' camera angrily yelling, 'don't you dare photograph me' before the screen went black.
Rory Burke, a colleague of Mr Collins, alleged the screen went black because Mr Plumb grabbed the phone.
Mr Plumb had insisted Liberals claiming all the best spots to display corflutes wasn't fair and wanted some removed.
'[Mr Plumb] demanded we remove the corflutes and said "I am going to start ripping them and you'll need physical violence to stop me",' Mr Burke alleged to Daily Mail Australia.
'You can't just rock up and demand other parties take down their material, that's not the rules of engagement. The rules are the first people to get there can put their posters wherever they want.
'If you don't want to get up early and do the hard work then you won't get rewarded.'
A second video clip showed Mr Plumb, previously an environmental activist who has also volunteered for the Greens, continuing to argue with the Liberal volunteers.
'You've got to be joking. You've got to be joking,' he said.
'You're actually more like seven years old at the moment.'
Mr Plumb then turned to the camera and said 'are you still photographing me?'
'Yeah, I'm allowed to, you're in a public space,' Mr Collins responded.
'Go on, take my phone again.'
Liberal volunteers Ben Collins and Rory Burke (wearing blue t-shirts) arrived outside Lane Cove Council chamber early on Thursday to put Anthony Roberts' posters inn the best spots. Mr Collins (left) filmed rival volunteer Noel Plumb allegedly acting aggressively
Liberal candidate Anthony Roberts (foreground) standing in front of his
