Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was ambushed by a young Labor campaigner at a private event on Tuesday night.
The Prime Minister was attending a private function in Penrith, Western Sydney when the person approached him asking for a photo before pulling his phone out to record the interaction.
Morrison asked why the young man was recording him, and as he walked away the young man shouted at the Prime Minister.
"ScoMo, across the river here, across the Nepean River, people lost their houses.
"People lost their houses and they were burnt. You're a disgrace, you are a disgrace."
The Prime Minister's personal security officers removed the man from the event.
Later on, the 20-year-old uploaded the interaction with the Prime Minister on the social media platform TikTok with the caption: "Help me. I tried to ask the PM a question and have been detained."
The young man's TikTok account contains politically themed videos including a recent Labor for Refugees march in Sydney, SBS News reported.
A Labor spokesperson told SBS News that this "kind of behaviour is not on".
"There's plenty of opportunity for respectful democratic participation without heckling and abuse," the spokesperson said.
NSW Labor is looking into the young man's involvement with the political party.
