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August 31st, 2013 
Security move in on protesters trying to block Kevin Rudd’s car after he meets shoppers and vendors at the Parap Markets in Darwin.
Source: News Limited
THE PM has faced anti-nuclear protestors in Darwin today with his security detail forced to move in to clear a path for his car to leave a market.
Mr Rudd was also heckled by one man who urged him to pack his bags ahead of the election.
WATCH VIDEO OF THE INCIDENT ABOVE
There was a better reception from others, such as Sarah Renshaw who met Mr Rudd with her seven month old daughter Kirsty and said after she would vote Labor.
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Mr Rudd is now heading to Brisbane to prepare for tomorrow’s campaign launch.
Earlier, a wheelchair-bound patient in Darwin accused the Prime Minister of ignoring her questions at a visit to a GP Super Clinic in Palmerston.
Security move in on protesters trying to block Kevin Rudd’s car after he meets shoppers and vendors at the Parap Markets in Darwin.
Source: News Limited
Diana Day, 55, who has knee problems attempted to get Kevin Rudd’s attention as he left the clinic following a visit this morning.
Mr Rudd shook hands with Ms Day but then did not take her question.
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“Prime Minister, excuse me Prime Minister,” Ms Day tried at Mr Rudd.
But the PM just kept walking and didn’t take Ms Day’s question.
“I wanted to know if he gets back in if white Australians will be treated the same as Aboriginal people,” Ms Day told the media after her apparent snub.
“I’m not Aboriginal and I don’t get the same assistance with my disability.”
Ms Day said Mr Rudd ignored her and was “very rude”.
The PM quickly shakes the hand of Diana Day then quickly moves on as she tries to ask a question in Darwin. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen
Source: News Limited
Her husband, Ross, said the pair had asked the government if they could get assistance for an automatic stair lift in their home and were told “you’d get more help if you were indigenous”.
The pair said they would not be voting for Mr Rudd at next week’s election because of “all his lies”.
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“It’s a network of lies basically,” Mr Day said.
The pair said they did not belong to any political party and were down at the GP Super Clinic for blood tests.
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They also came down this morning because they wanted to approach Mr Rudd.
A spokesman for the Prime Minister said he was certain Mr Rudd had simply not seen or heard Ms Day and did not purposely ignore her.
“I’m sure he wouldn’t do that,” the spokesman said, but he was yet to confirm with Mr Rudd.
Mr Rudd was at the super clinic this morning to announce more funding for the centre.
A heckler yells towards Kevin Rudd outside the GP Super Clinic in Palmerston, Darwin. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen
Source: News Limited
He said he wanted it to be the site of a second Darwin hospital because the Royal Darwin Hospital was overcrowded and constantly under pressure.
The Prime Minister toured the GP super clinic but his travelling media contingent was not allowed inside after the NT government rejected a request for an official event.
Mr Rudd said he believed the NT government were playing politics with the event.
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And the situation took a turn for the worse when a lone protester tried to disrupt Mr Rudd’s press conference after his tour of the facility.
“Stop spending,” the protester angrily shouted across Mr Rudd.
“You’re a fool, get out of here.”
Mr Rudd tried not to pay attention to the man and persevered through his remarks.
“The NT government did not approve our request for an event,” a spokeswoman for Mr Rudd said. “We are not sure exactly why.”
Cameramen were forced to film the PM from outside the facility and no media were allowed inside.
Kevin Rudd continued a tour of the Palmerston GP Super Clinic in Darwin today even though the media pack following him was locked out.
Source: News Limited
The event is Mr Rudd’s only public event for the day before flying to Brisbane ahead of tomorrow’s official Labor Party campaign launch.
The NT government is one of the nation’s conservative governments run by the Country Liberal Party.
Two weeks ago the NT government banned Education Minister Bill Shorten from visiting a school.
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The NT government said at the time they rejected Mr Shorten’s request because they didn’t want their schools politicised.
In June, then Schools Minister Peter Garrett was not granted clearance to a Queensland school by Campbell Newman’s Liberal National Party government.
A spokeswoman for the NT Chief Minister Adam Giles said Mr Rudd’s office was informed of the rejection yesterday and agreed to the terms.
“It’s standard protocol for anyone to be allowed a tour if they request it,” the spokeswoman said.
“But we do not believe clinics and hospitals should be used for photo opportunities during the campaign.
“Patient confidentiality and privacy should be respected.”
The spokeswoman said the rules applied to both sides of politics with Liberal Senator Nigel Scullion being barred from conducting a media event at a GP super clinic in Maningrida a few weeks ago.
“The same rules apply to both sides,” she said.
“This is not political.”
The media had to look for alternative sports to film Kevin Rudd inside the Palmerston GP Super Clinic in Darwin after they were told they could not go inside.
Source: News Limited
The latest Newspoll shows swings are expected against the Labor Government in its strongholds of western Sydney, coastal NSW and Melbourne.
The Rudd government looks set for defeat on September 7, with the marginal Victorian seats of La Trobe, Deakin and Corangamite expected to be claimed by the Coalition with a two-party preferred vote of 53 per cent to Labor’s 47 per cent.
The Newspoll shows the same voting percentages in the coastal NSW seats of Dobell, Robertson, Kingsford Smith, Page and Eden-Monaro.
A six per cent swing to the Coalition would leave Labor represented mostly only around Wollongong and Newcastle in coastal NSW.
The Coalition only needs to pick up six seats for a clear majority in Parliament, but the Newspoll suggests it could gain 20 seats just in NSW and Victoria.
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