‘Socialism sucks’ stickers on display as CPAC Australia stokes fears of Indigenous voice

Speaker after speaker - after wheeling out standard complaints about progressive politicians - poured scorn on the voice concept

• Tony Abbott tells CPAC an Indigenous voice to parliament would promote discrimination'
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Saturday's CPAC conference in Sydney showed Australia's political right is gearing up for a fight against the government's proposed Indigenous voice to parliament - and highlighted the potential political perils of Anthony Albanese keeping many details of the constitutional change out of the public arena for now.

The Conservative Political Action Conference filled a small corner of the International Convention Centre, bringing a mixed assortment of federal senators, rightwing media personalities and international guests together for an audience of around 900. A hodge-podge of topics boiled down to broad grievances around cancel culture", shadow banning" and wokeism"; speakers variously criticised the conservative cowardice" of Coalition politicians, the mainstream media and talk of white privilege".