The Labor Party has taken aim at the Liberal Candidate for the ultra-marginal seat of Gilmore, Warren Mundine, over a series of tweets, some of which targeted Scott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull.

Key points: Warren Mundine under fire for tweets criticising Scott Morrison, Malcolm Turnbull, and Terri Butler

Warren Mundine under fire for tweets criticising Scott Morrison, Malcolm Turnbull, and Terri Butler The former ALP president was controversially parachuted into the knife-edge seat of Gilmore by Mr Morrison

The former ALP president was controversially parachuted into the knife-edge seat of Gilmore by Mr Morrison Mr Mundine has brushed aside criticism of his tweets, saying it's all part of the "argy-bargy" of politics

Mr Mundine, a former ALP president, was parachuted into the seat in January after being hand-picked by Scott Morrison.

But on Twitter in 2017, Mr Mundine said Mr Morrison was "sounding like a dodgy politician" for failing to commission an audit of the citizenship statuses of parliamentarians.

Mr Mundine also described former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as having "more blood on your [his] hands than Dracula in a blood bank" in reference to the ousting of Tony Abbott.

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'Degrading and insulting'

The Labor Party has called out Mr Mundine's tweets as disgusting and disrespectful, particularly towards women.

In one tweet, Mr Mundine said the Labor party's Terri Butler was "pathetic in her response to Palmer's attack on [Peta] Credlin", adding "no wonder women struggle in politics".

Labor's Kristina Keneally said Mr Mundine's tweets are similar to that of an internet troll.

"They're not the tweets that should come from a Member of Parliament, or from someone who wants to become a Member of Parliament," she said.

"Scott Morrison, are you going to walk past this low standard of degrading and insulting women, of being incredibly rude to other people on Twitter, being this bizarre on Twitter?

"This is a strange standard for Scott Morrison to accept in the Liberal candidate."

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'Just the argy-bargy of politics'

Mr Mundine said the tweets were part of a political discussion and that he did not see anything wrong with them.

"There's nothing in those comments," he said.

"They are just the normal conversations of the argy-bargy of politics.

"If we're going to sit here all day looking at people's tweets and tossing them back and forwards, I can show you some very racist tweets that were sent to me, and some very racist comments made about me on polling booths.

"I'm not interested in those idiotic discussions — I'm interested in the people of Gilmore … not playing silly tweeting games."

Mr Mundine called out the Labor Party for labelling his comments as disrespectful to women.

"So what I am doing is defending a woman, Peta Credlin, and yet I'm seen as a misogynist in regard to defending a woman."