Launceston slur 'a joke': Bacon

The Examiner contacted Mr Bacon after he posted this on the social networking site.

"Launceston bound. Is it as bad as I remember it?"

The post attracted a number of reactions, including one that called it a "career limiting comment".

Mr Bacon said he bore no ill will towards the Northern city.

"It's a joke. That's all it is," he said.

"I don't have any bad feeling towards Launceston or anything like that."

Mr Bacon travelled up to Launceston to sit on a parliamentary committee into the Tasmanian building industry.

Former Franklin Labor MHA Daniel Hulme commented on Mr Bacon's post with this:

"Bag it is as much as you like. It's not in your electorate."