SYDNEY: An independent Australian senator Tuesday threatened to physically intimidate Prime Minister Tony Abbott, using illegal rugby tactics including grabbing his testicles, if he does not limit coal-seam gas exploration.
Glenn Lazarus, a former rugby league prop and a senator for the eastern state of Queensland, said he submitted a petition to Abbott calling for health impact assessments, exclusion zones and community consultations over mining developments near residential, agricultural and farming areas.
Lazarus, dubbed the “brick with eyes” in his rugby heyday, added to an anti-CSG protest in Sydney that he was prepared to use a range of tactics on the Australian …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
