While here, Farage will also speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Sydney, alongside former prime minister Tony Abbott and a string of other conservatives: Ian Plimer, Alan Jones, Malcolm Roberts and Johannes Leak. Costas is the head of right-wing advocacy group Turning Point Australia, a domestic franchise of the conservative non-profit Turning Point USA. In 2019, he tried to fly in Milo Yiannopoulos, until the former Breitbart senior editor was barred for comments about the Christchurch mosque attacks. So, how did a British Eurosceptic and former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) arrive in what he will tonight call “the realms”? To Farage, Western civilisation is besieged from without by a predatory Beijing and within by a “Marxist” left obsessed with race.įarage’s trip has been bankrolled by Damien Costas, the “porn king” responsible for transforming Penthouse Australia into a right-wing magazine before vanishing into personal bankruptcy, only to re-emerge last year with his bankruptcy annulled.įarage is not the first right-wing provocateur imported by Costas. Besides a conspicuous gap in the early-middle, the age distribution is even. On the face of it there is diversity many are white but many are not. In the foyer, a crowd of three distinct groups builds: most numerous are the white-haired retirees, dressed up for a night in town then there are the keyboard trolls, all young males, dishevelled, eyes darting finally, figures dressed like Fox News anchors, well-coiffed in chintzy glamour, shaking hands and kissing cheeks like they’re already on the campaign trail. As the crumpled suits from the day’s trade shows trundle out into a wet evening, the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre prepares for An Entertaining Evening with Nigel Farage.
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