A Liberal Party billboard in Perth tallying the number of asylum seeker boat arrivals under Labor federal governments has been vandalised.
Opposition leader Tony Abbott unveiled the billboard reading: "How many illegal boats have arrived since Labor took over?" in West Perth.
Designed to resemble a sporting score-board, it read 641.
But within 24 hours, that figure was blanked out and replaced with a zero.
Scrawled underneath was: "No crime to seek asylum".
Alex Bainbridge, a co-convenor of the Socialist Alliance in Perth, told Kristina Kukolja Mr Abbott's billboard was a shallow racist tactic.
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