{"id":476911,"date":"2026-02-13T08:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/476911\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T08:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:09:13","slug":"angus-taylor-news-corp-photographer-falls-into-water-feature-while-taking-pictures-of-new-liberal-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/476911\/","title":{"rendered":"Angus Taylor: News Corp photographer falls into water feature while taking pictures of new Liberal Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Amongst all the excitement and chaos of the news that Angus Taylor has been named the new Liberal Leader, one eager photographer took his job a step too far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The newest leader of the Opposition took a stroll out of Parliament House on Friday following his triumph over Sussan Ley, walking alongside his new Deputy Jane Hume.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">As they walked, camera crews and photographers scrambled to get the best angle of the newest head honcho \u2014 and News Corp photographer Martin Ollman took it upon himself to make a splash with a front page-worthy picture of his own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">While walking backwards, the freelance photographer tripped and fell backwards into a water feature, getting drenched, along with his camera equipment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9046a0d723b8ba14ec84948a12038b3590473cc7.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Ollman tripped and fell backwards into a water feature while chasing Angus Taylor.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconMartin Ollman tripped and fell backwards into a water feature while chasing Angus Taylor. Credit: Gary Ramage\/The West Australian<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c6c38c18da5a653a767066bf60f5c94c25d9bde1.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Ollman tripped and fell backwards into a water feature while chasing Angus Taylor.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconMartin Ollman tripped and fell backwards into a water feature while chasing Angus Taylor. Credit: Gary Ramage\/The West Australian<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Talk about diving head first into a job!<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Fortunately for Ollman, the new Lib leader was a good sport about the situation and laughed it off, helping the soaked photographer out of the water and holding a camera as the frazzled shutterbug composed himself.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dd7f6ac18369ed3caaf6ac9d482dd9c76ffe895c.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Ollman tripped and fell backwards into a water feature while chasing Angus Taylor.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconMartin Ollman tripped and fell backwards into a water feature while chasing Angus Taylor. Credit: Gary Ramage\/The West Australian<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cd8dadded1b8613befaa7c420558a665637f546c.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Ollman tripped and fell backwards into a water feature while chasing Angus Taylor.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconMartin Ollman tripped and fell backwards into a water feature while chasing Angus Taylor. Credit: Gary Ramage\/The West Australian<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Although every other camera operator on sight took the opportunity to capture the hilarious moment, leaving Ollman red faced and dripping wet after producing the second spill in Canberra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amongst all the excitement and chaos of the news that Angus Taylor has been named the new Liberal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134,44,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-476911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}