Liberal staffer promoted bomb hoax

Bill Tilley.

Bill Tilley. Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones

A STAFFER for controversial Victorian Liberal MP Bill Tilley has been caught out promoting an apparent bomb hoax on the federal parliament.

Mr Tilly’s electorate officer, Tony Tynan, sent an email to reporters yesterday promoting the stunt.

Mr Tynan wrote that a protester was planning to dress as Guy Fawkes and enter Parliament with a ”suspect briefcase” next week. (Guy Fawkes was caught plotting to blow up the English House of Lords in 1605.)

”[The protester] anticipates some sort of resistance from both Parliament House security and the federal government,” he wrote. ”It could be an interesting story.”

Mr Tynan later sent another email apologising and distancing Mr Tilley from the earlier message. ”Its content was inappropriate and it was not in any way authorised by Mr Tilley,” he wrote.

Premier Ted Baillieu’s spokesman said the email was sent without Mr Tilley’s knowledge.

Opposition spokesman Martin Pakula said the Liberal Party was promoting extremist behaviour: ”There are many ways Victorians can voice their concerns about issues, but smuggling a fake bomb into federal parliament is not one of those.”

The opposition has called for Mr Tilley to relinquish his position as parliamentary secretary for police since The Age revealed that he leaked an email that damaged the reputation of the former deputy police commissioner, Sir Ken Jones. AAP

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