{"id":34991,"date":"2023-10-20T14:36:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/abbott-has-fed-up-badly-brendan-oconnors-twitter-gaffe-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:36:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:36:02","slug":"abbott-has-fed-up-badly-brendan-oconnors-twitter-gaffe-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/abbott-has-fed-up-badly-brendan-oconnors-twitter-gaffe-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAbbott has F***ED UP badly\u201d: Brendan O\u2019Connor&#8217;s Twitter gaffe &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Small Business Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartcompany.com.au\/politics\/048786-small-business-minister-brendan-o-connor-tight-lipped-on-tax-ideas-for-small-business-pledges-to-advocate-strongly-for-sector.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brendan O\u2019Connor<\/a> has apologised after a Twitter gaffe where he described volunteer firefighting by the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, as \u201cf***ing up\u201d and a \u201cstunt\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>  <span id=\"more-8601\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor retweeted a tweet Abbott sent on Tuesday about the fires \u2013 &#8221;I&#8217;m now on my way to Sydney to be on standby with my local fire brigade&#8221; \u2013 and added the hashtag &#8221;#standbystunt&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also retweeted tweets from his followers including \u201cAbbott has F**ED UP badly with his latest stunt\u2026 most will see it as pure self-promotion\u201d and \u201cAbbott on bike, Abbott on horse, Abbott on beach, Abbott in fire-truck. What\u2019s next? @ABCmarkscott Abbott sitting at desk developing policies?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But O&#8217;Connor quickly deleted the tweets and apologised: &#8221;Apologies for any offence. I respect and acknowledge the critical work of all our volunteer firefighters including Tony Abbott.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"oconnor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smartcompany.com.au\/images\/stories\/Features\/inarticles2\/20130110\/oconnor.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor who uses the Twitter account @BOConnorMP has over 2,000 followers on Twitter and is a fairly enthusiastic user of the micro-blogging service, having tweeted over 700 times.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Small Business Minister\u2019s office told <em>SmartCompany<\/em> he was unavailable for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"oconnor-4a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smartcompany.com.au\/images\/stories\/Features\/inarticles2\/20130110\/oconnor-4a.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartcompany.com.au\/politics\/20091209-new-opposition-small-business-spokesperson-bruce-billson-accuses-rudd-government-of-ignoring-smes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bruce Billson<\/a>, the shadow minister for small business, told <em>SmartCompany<\/em> O\u2019Connor\u2019s remarks on Twitter were an \u201cunnecessary and unsubstantiated\u201d attack on Abbott.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It follows a long line of attacks on the Opposition Leader that do nothing to address the issues which confront the country,&#8221; Billson says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Minister is right to apologise because he shouldn&#8217;t have said anything in the first place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>This story first appeared on <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"SmartCompany - News and Advice for entrepreneurs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smartcompany.com.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">SmartCompany.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Small Business Minister Brendan O\u2019Connor has apologised after a Twitter gaffe where he described volunteer firefighting by the Opposition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}