{"id":1625251,"date":"2022-08-29T08:05:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T12:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625251"},"modified":"2022-08-29T08:05:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T12:05:52","slug":"cpac-australia-organisers-forced-to-keep-venue-location-secret-over-interference-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cpac-australia-organisers-forced-to-keep-venue-location-secret-over-interference-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"CPAC Australia Organisers Forced to Keep Venue Location Secret Over Interference Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcpac-australia-organisers-forced-to-keep-venue-location-secret-over-interference-fears%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625251&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Organisers of Australia\u2019s Conservative Political Action Conference (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-cpac\">CPAC<\/a>) are keeping quiet about the location of the upcoming event to protect venue managers from pressure.<\/p>\n<p>In an emailed newsletter on Aug. 27, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-cpac-australia\">CPAC Australia<\/a> Director Andrew Cooper, said a venue partner had been secured, but warned that the \u201cleft-wing cancel culture crowd\u201d wanted to stop the event from going ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will do everything to shut us down including harassing and threatening any venue willing to host us,\u201d he wrote in the newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe therefore will protect the venue from the irrational mob by not releasing the specific location until closer to the date. Thank you for your understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cooper added that the event would be the \u201cbiggest and best\u201d CPAC Australia yet.<\/p>\n<p>CPAC\u2019s Australian edition was first held in 2019\u2014headlined by former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage\u2014and then a scaled-down version was held in 2020 due to pandemic restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 event will feature Matthew Whitaker, former acting U.S. attorney-general, Michael Schellenberger, author and eco-modernist, Mick Mulvaney, former acting White House chief of staff, and will be hosted by Indigenous leader Warren Mundine.<\/p>\n<p> Pressure From the Left <\/p>\n<p>The event has faced heavy scrutiny and pressure from local media outlets and politicians from the centre-left Labor Party.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the inaugural event in 2019, then-deputy leader of the opposition in the Australian Senate, Kristina Keneally, called for the visa of British activist\u2014and CPAC speaker\u2014Raheem Kassam <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/left-wing-politician-kristina-keneally-wins-conservative-award-at-cpac-australia_3036985.html\">to be cancelled<\/a>,\u00a0claiming he had an \u201cextensive history of vilifying people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While fellow party member, Senator Penny Wong, who is now the Australian foreign minister, claimed CPAC was not a conference that discussed harmless ideas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been an extremist breeding ground in the U.S. We do not need to import its antisemitism, white supremacy and bigotry to Australia,\u201d she wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorWong\/status\/1156447968859308032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1157164812683509760%7Ctwgr%5E5f1efd55fde1dc9ddfd0a92b9ce2609a8a05b2d3%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theepochtimes.com%2Fcontroversial-conservative-raheem-kassam-challenges-australian-senator-to-public-debate_3032547.html\">on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the Attorney-General\u2019s Department,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisers of Australia\u2019s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) are keeping quiet about the location of the upcoming event to protect venue managers from pressure. 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