Egg Boy Says If He Could Time Travel He’d Definitely Egg Fraser Anning Again

National hero Will Connolly, aka Egg Boy, has stood by his egging of former senator Fraser Anning, saying if he had a time machine, he would “100% do it again”.

In an interview with The Feed‘s Marc Fennell conducted at Splendour in the Grass (which Connolly got free tickets to, on account of being a legend), the teenager spoke about what inspired him to egg the far-right politician, and what his life has been like since he did.

“I was at the climate change rally the day before, so I was already [feeling] empowered, and in a pretty passionate mood, wanting to make change,” Connolly told Fennell. “On the way back I watched a video on Facebook of the [Christchurch] shooting … then like three hours later I saw the statement Fraser Anning released.”

“I shared that on Facebook and said ‘I’d like to be face-to-face with this muppet’ … and someone held me to that. He posted the event [Anning] was at the next day. I was in the car with my mate, and I was like ‘well, let’s go egg him’.”

“I had a couple of mates I wanted to come with me, but they were running late, and I didn’t want to miss him, so I went by myself, rode my bike down and got eggs from Woolies.”

“Coles is really relieved you bought them from Woolies,” Fennell joked.

Asked by the journalist how he felt about the debate over whether egging was an acceptable form of protest, Connolly pointed to all the good that came from his action.

“I had one lady, she was a victim, and she knew someone who was killed, and she said ‘watching your footage was the first time I’ve smiled since the incident’,” he recalled. “So the positive out of it definitely outweighs the ‘you shouldn’t throw eggs at people’.”

“But I still shouldn’t throw eggs at people,” he added.

A teenager smashed egg on Australian Senator Fraser Anning’s head following his disgusting comments in the wake of #NewZealandTerroristAttack. Fraser immediately turned and attacked the boy. Thank you, egg boy. pic.twitter.com/K5VmBkFgGF

— Sana Jamal (@Sana_Jamal) March 16, 2019

“If Fraser Anning said what he said again, and you had access, would you do it again?” asked Fennell.

“The best way to put it is if I saw him on the street tomorrow I’d probably just give him a cheeky smile,” Connolly replied. “But if I had a time machine and it took me back to that same day I would 100% do it again.”

“What I did didn’t come from a violent place,” he added. “If I wanted to hit him I could have hit him in the head with a baseball.”

Watch the whole interview below.