Labor was last night under pressure to disendorse Durack candidate Sharyn Morrow after social media posts emerged of her suggesting “trouble maker” refugees should “go back to where they came from” and welfare recipients should simply get a job.

The Weekend West has uncovered Ms Morrow’s offensive anti-asylum seeker comments from 2013, made in response to a riot at the Nauru detention centre that caused $60 million damage and occurred under Labor.

She is the latest candidate to come under pressure for comments made online, with 15 candidates from all parties stepping down since April 11.

Camera Icon Labor candidate for Durack, Sharyn Morrow. Credit: Gavin Blue Photography

“These trouble makers should be sent back to where they came from, they do not deserve our charity,” Ms Morrow wrote on July 22, 2013. “When will we see a government that understands charity begins at home.

“And also who pays for lawyers to challenge our government policy. The government should not allow any legal challenges by non citizens as you should need to be a citizen to have rights.”

Responding to a Facebook user’s suggestion she should run for politics, she posted “what as an independent?”

“It’s sad that political parties just tell us what they want us to know and not the actual facts,” she wrote.

Having been sent the posts by The Weekend West, Labor last night said Ms Morrow would not be disendorsed and instead deflected to Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s comments from earlier in the day. “Scott Morrison said today ‘the standard you walk by is the standard you accept’. Will he sack John Alexander?” an ALP spokeswoman said. Asked directly if Ms Morrow would be disendorsed, the spokeswoman said “no”.

She would not say if Labor felt the posts were inappropriate. Ms Morrow did not respond to The Weekend West’s phone calls, texts or email yesterday.

The candidate for Durack, who was at the Broome Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Federal Election Business Luncheon with Environment Minister and current Member for Durack Melissa Price yesterday, had also “liked” a page called “All Things Golliwog” on her now-deleted page.

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Golliwogs were created by cartoonist Florence Kate Upton and are widely considered racist.

Earlier this year, the ACT Government banned a hot air balloon with a likeness to golliwogs and last year the Royal Adelaide Show banned golliwog dolls from being sold.

Ms Price holds Durack — the largest electorate in the country — on a margin of 11.1 per cent.

Among other “likes” on Ms Morrow’s Facebook page include WA Labor, Perth MP Patrick Gorman, former Labor Treasurer Wayne Swan and Labor Women’s Organisation.

It is understood Ms Morrow deleted her Facebook account soon after Labor NT Senate candidate Wayne Kurnorth resigned earlier this week after it emerged he had shared an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory and posted an Islamic State-themed meme online.

Liberal candidate for the Tasmanian seat of Lyons, Jessica Whelan, was disendorsed yesterday but said she would still run as an independent.