Meshel Laurie slams The Project’s Steve Price after he took aim at ‘weasel’ Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan: ‘Be gone little man, go and play your golf’

Meshel Laurie had some nice words for The Project and Channel Ten's Steve Price after taking aim at Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan on Tuesday night's programme.

Price brutally took down Allan, calling her “weak” and accusing her of using “weasel words” to avoid responsibility for allowing masked neo-Nazis to brazenly march down the main street of Ballarat, 115km northwest of Melbourne

“I was tempted to draw attention to nasty things @steveprice7571 said on @theprojecttv, but then I remembered that this is the witness protection program of TV shows these days, and it should stay that way,” Laurie wrote on Instagram .

'I only know because of a headline. I will shed no further light on the mediocrity.'

Meshel, who was once a panelist on the show, added: “Gone, little man. To the past where you belong. Bye. Go play golf.”

Meshel Laurie had some nice words for The Project and Channel Ten's Steve Price after taking aim at Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan on Tuesday night's program

Laurie made more comments about The Project and Price in the comments on her post.

'What was said? Missed the project recently,” one follower asked, to which the podcast host replied: “Australia missed @theprojecttv recently, honey. It's really nothing.

“(Price is) just using this TV program to try to keep the former Victorian Prime Minister out of his prestigious golf club. Very recognizable during a crisis surrounding the cost of living.'

Laurie also revealed that her departure from The Project in 2019 was due to a “change in direction on their part” and called speaking “the truth” because she is “not there anymore.”

Price brutally slammed Allan, calling her “weak” and accusing her of using “weasel words” to avoid responsibility for allowing masked neo-Nazis to march brazenly down the main street of Ballarat, 70 miles northwest of Melbourn.

Meshel, who was once a panelist on the show, added: “Gone, little man. To the past where you belong. Bye. Go play golf'

During Tuesday's show, Price took aim at both Allan and Victoria Police for watching and even escorting a menacing group of 30 men dressed in black in Ballarat on Sunday, waving racist banners and chanting offensive slogans.

Footage of the meeting was shown, along with Ms Allan's response.

“She should have had her police minister tell the Victoria police commissioner that you cannot allow people to walk down the street completely covered in a mask,” Price said.

“The police should have stopped those guys on that street in Ballarat and demanded they unmask or they would have been arrested.”

Fellow The Project presenter Hamish Macdonald asked what laws Price would change to stop such a demonstration.

Price pointed out that anti-cycling laws, which are in place at varying levels in Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, ban people from associating with each other while wearing the biker gang colours.

“This is worse than that,” Price said of the neo-Nazi march. “These people are despicable. And the police should be a police force, they are weak.

“We had those same Victorian police firing rubber bullets at anti-vaxxer protests and using riot shields. Then why do they let these guys get away with this?'

During Victoria's draconian Covid lockdowns in September 2021, police fired rubber bullets at protesters gathered at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance.

Price said laws introduced in Victoria earlier this year that would make it a criminal offense to give the Nazi salute, display a swastika or say “Heil Hitler” were “clearly not working”.

The protesters, who at one point took photographs of themselves outside the Ballarat police station, used the legally safe chant of “Heil victory”.

As they walked through Ballarat's central Sturt St behind a banner reading 'Australia for the white man', they also chanted: 'The rest can go'.

The group sang Rule Britannia as they marched and were seen taking photos at Ballarat's Eureka monument.

As the scene unfolded, police provided an escort and directed traffic.