Nigel Farage once called Australia the wokest nation on earth but founder and director of CPAC Australia Andrew Cooper has a more positive update on the country down under at CPAC in DC 2024.
Though the country had some of the strictest and most draconian rules of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has since then demonstrated a change of heart and shift towards a more conservative viewpoint in politics.
During the pandemic, the left-wing party introduced a proposal to add a third house to the Australian federal governing body that would be exclusively for indigenous people. Members of this proposed chamber could only be indigenous and would hold veto power over the other two houses. The proposal gained traction at first out of concern for remote, poor indigenous communities but also out of fear of being called racist for opposing it.
The CPAC Australia team campaigned across the country against the proposal, bringing to light the divisive and racist nature of it. Ultimately, the Left lost on this proposal, and CPAC Australia succeeded in changing Australians’ minds. Polling in favor of the new chamber shrunk from 70% to just 40%. The conservative victory on this issue gives Cooper and other conservative Australians hope that a conservative revival is in the future for Australia.
“I think there is a renaissance, a pendulum swinging back in Australia,” said Cooper. “I’m really hopeful that it’s well and truly underway here in the U.S.”
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