Qld premier wants Wicked van boycott
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has urged people to boycott Wicked Campers until offensive and derogatory slogans are removed from the company's campervan fleet.
Ms Palaszczuk's call comes after Queensland's peak motoring body, the RACQ, urged the state government to crack down on the company for flouting advertising standards on the roads.
The premier said she would have Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath look at ways to stop Wicked's offensive and obscene slogans, but advertising breaches were a national issue.
She urged the public to take action in the first instance.
"The first step is people can boycott them," Ms Palaszczuk said.
"It is unacceptable to have those vile slogans on those vans."
She also called on the company to censor itself, particularly by removing slogans that degrade women.
"I don't like it, you don't like it - I don't think any woman in Queensland likes it," she told reporters on the Gold Coast.
"It's about time that they took some responsibility for their actions as well."
RACQ spokesman Paul Turner said the government should direct resources towards making Wicked accountable instead of "redundant crackdowns on ride-sharing services" like Uber.
"This government has pledged to place worthy emphasis on issues of violence against women," he said.
"Accordingly, these misogynistic, sexually predatory driving billboards which are in breach of the advertising code must no longer be ignored."
Mr Turner said many of Wicked's slogans encouraged dangerous driving, were pornographic and were derogatory towards women.
Ms Palaszczuk's response comes after NSW Premier Mike Baird said in April the issue wasn't "something that the state government should be getting involved in".
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