CPAC Australia defends comedian who referred to traditional owners as ‘violent black men’

CPAC Australia, an organisation chaired by Warren Mundine, calls speaker's comments a comedy' skit

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The anti-Indigenous voice campaign leader Warren Mundine's organisation, CPAC Australia, has defended a comedian who referred to traditional owners as violent black men" and called the Indigenous leader Bennelong a woman-basher" at a conservative political conference.

It came hours after another no campaign spokesperson, Gary Johns, claimed some people in Indigenous communities lived in a stupor" and recommended they learn English". Those claims were described as nasty rubbish" by the Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young.

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