Warren Mundine’s CPAC — the Australian franchise of the Trumpist political circus — took place on the weekend in Brisbane. You can read more about the gathering — which starred Angus ‘Fantastic’ Taylor (Liberal), semi-pro cosplayer Matt Canavan (National) and of course Pauline ‘I Don’t Like It!’ Hanson (PHONy) — in accounts by:
• Andrew Stafford (Conservatives one, and all over the place at conference, The Canberra Times, October 10, 2026);
• Clare Armstrong (Angus Taylor went where no Liberal leader has before, but Pauline Hanson already ruled the room, ABC, October 11, 2026);
• Josh Butler (A Trump impersonator and opera singers: CPAC was a spectacle, but the right still can’t agree how to take down Labor, The Guardian, October 11, 2026) and;
• David Lowe (Right wing ratbags gather in Brisbane for CPAC, Echo, October 12, 2026).
For background, see : Crikey: CPAC Australia is calling itself ‘NatCon’ this year. It may mean more than you think, Lucy Hamilton, September 30, 2026.
The other speakers were current or former right-wing politicians — Senator Sean Bell (PHONy); Jarrod Bleijie MP (Liberal National); Senator Leah Blyth (Liberal); Ross Cameron (Liberal); Nick Goiran MP (Liberal); Gary Hardgrave (Liberal); Senator Sarah Henderson (Liberal); Barnaby Joyce MP (National/PHONy), Senator Kerrynne Liddle (Liberal); Senator Susan McDonald (National); Senator Bridget McKenzie (National); Henry Pike MP (Liberal National); Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (National/Liberal); Dan Tehan MP (Liberal); Phillip Thompson MP (Liberal National); Liz ‘Lettuce’ Truss (Conservative) — along with a glittering array of right-wing propagandists, rich idi0ts and sundry others: Andrew Cooper (LibertyWorks), Rupert Degas, Robert Gregory (AJA), Sall Grover, Scott Hargreaves (IPA), Collin Lillie, Barclay McGain, Warren Mundine (Labor/Libertarian/National), Noëmi Nadelmann, Ian Plimer, Gideon Rozner, Mia Schlicht (Samuel Griffith Society), Michael Shellenberger, Tali Shine, Suzi Smeed, Karl Stefanovic, Lyndon Terracini, Bryan Welker (Turning Point USA) and Dan Wild (IPA).
A number of people attended and OMGWTF ERUPTED! at a small counter-protest.
See also : Why does it matter that John Anderson AO is spending 7/10 on a stage in Jerusalem?, Lucy Hamilton, October 3, 2026 /// Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia, Dominic Kelly (La Trobe University Press, 2019).
BACPAC
This weekend, the British Australian Community (BAC) is holding its own gathering. Last week, BAC got a guernsey in Victorian English language charity investigated over funding for white nationalist groups by Ruby Jones, Michael Workman and Matt Martino (ABC, October 9, 2026).
ABC NEWS Verify can reveal ESU Victoria also has ties to a far-right political interest group called the British Australian Community (BAC).
The BAC says it exists to “promote and defend the interests of Anglo-Celtic Australians”.
The group has engaged in white nationalist rhetoric, including advocating for remigration, which is the deportation of those of non-European heritage.
In a post on X in 2024, the BAC referenced Australian Anglo-Celtics being “under siege” by the “threat” of “mass indiscriminate immigration”.
The BAC is not. happy. about the coverage. Neither is former National Social Network (NSN) member and blogger David Hiscox (see : Press F# for neo-Nazi Keyboard Warrior David Hiscox, August 7, 2023), who writes:
Given “Doctor” Roose’s long history of a single issue fixation on so-called “far right” “extremism”, it is possible that he (and some ABC journalists) are either members of terrorist organisations Slackbastard and Antifa, or are at least Antifa adjacent. The ABC’s apparent decision to publicise the location of the Victorian ESU’s headquarters could also encourage political violence against ESU and BAC members and property.
All else aside: the ESU’s Victorian headquarters in Ascot Vale is advertised on its website; slackbastard is the blog you’re reading, not a terrorist organisation; the idea that Dr Roose is a ‘member’ of slackbastard or ‘Antifa’ is rather silly (to put it mildly). By the same token, while the NSN — or rather, its putative political party, ‘White Australia’ — has been proscribed (along with Hizb ut Tahrir) as a ‘hate group’, the High Court is yet to pass judgement on the neo-Nazis’ argument that the relevant law is, in fact, un-Constitutional.
The October 17 BACPAC gathering in Sydney, titled ‘Abolishing Anglophobia: The Road to Success’, stars property developer scion and sometime fren of the NSN Hugo Lennon, Eric Louw, Proprietarian MP John Ruddick, binfluencer Evelyn Rae, Luke Torrisi, and an ‘International VIP Keynote Speaker’.
See also : Frightened Chicks, Pablo Scheffer’s review of How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons by Nicholas J. Higham, London Review of Books, Vol.48, No.18, October 8, 2026.
