The West Australian Government has admitted a tweet from one of its Upper House MPs referencing the Syrian crisis was "inappropriate and unnecessary".
Labor MP Darren West engaged in a Twitter debate about funding changes to agricultural schools across Western Australia and the closure of Moora Residential College.
In one of his responses, Mr West retweeted a post that referenced the number of Syrian civil war casualties and wrote: "Our Ag College students will be fine".
The Agricultural Region MP was engaged with Twitter user and Latham farmer Phil Logue.
Mr Logue spoke to ABC Radio and said he was concerned by the post from the Upper House MP, but appreciated he was engaged in conversation.
"We've done our marches, we've done our submissions," Mr Logue said.
"At least Darren is actually responding to us and listening to us and that's not happening from the upper levels."
A spokesperson from Premier Mark McGowan's office condemned Mr West's reply.
"The tweet was inappropriate and unnecessary," they said.
"The Premier has spoken to Mr West."
'Profoundly stupid,' says Opposition
The WA Liberals called for Mr West to be sacked as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Regional Development.
"[It was] one of the most profoundly stupid statements I've ever heard," Opposition leader Mike Nahan said.
"Totally inappropriate benchmark, totally inappropriate reference. He should be sacked by Mr McGowan."
The government spokesman said Mr West would not be sacked from his position.
Mr West declined a request for comment and has since deleted the tweet.
It is not the first time the Agricultural Region MP has been reprimanded for his actions on social media.
In 2015, Mr West and fellow Labor MP Chris Tallentire came under fire for retweeting jokes about then Liberal candidate and now Canning MP Andrew Hastie's record in Afghanistan.
