Price Steps Out on the World Stage

The inaugural Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference, the “anti-WEF” is billed as an “alternative to the talk-down centralising totalitarian globalist vision”. So it’s unsurprising that the champion of the defeat of Australia’s recent referendum, rightly described as a “referendum on identity politics”, should be one of the keynote speakers.

Jacinta Price has called for an end to separatism and racial division after the failed Voice referendum, accusing the Yes campaign of “emotional blackmail” and seeking to “tear down” Australia’s constitutional settlement with little genuine regard to the living standards of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The No campaign skyrocketed Price into the national consciousness. Even Yes proponents admitted, through gritted teeth, that she is a devastatingly effective speaker. At the ARC, Price demonstrated just what it is that makes her a nuclear weapon against wokeism.

In a speech in London on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT), Northern Territory Senator Price, fresh from her leadership role in the historic defeat of the Voice referendum earlier this month, advocated for “no more separatism, no more dividing us along the lines of race, no more political correctness, no more identity politics”.

“They tried to teach everyday Australians that we belong to a racist country, tried to teach our children that they shouldn‘t be proud to call themselves Australian, tried to suggest that if you voted no that you belonged to the wrong side of history, Well, we showed them,” she told an audience of influential political, business and media figures.

We certainly did. Australians can take pride in the fact that they overwhelmingly voted against the mean-spirited divisiveness that lay at the heart of the Voice proposal.

A special guest at the inaugural Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference, Senator Price also told The Australian the ultimate goal of the Yes campaign was “a radical change to the Australian constitution, a fundamental altering of our governing document, with a view to even more radical and fundamental changes to our country and society”.

The ARC is the brainchild of renowned Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, former Australian Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson, and British life peer, Baroness Stroud. Their aim is to provide a vision for political and economic life rooted in freedom and traditional Judaeo-Christian values.

The Voice was diametrically opposite to both.

“They used a collectivist approach to link every Australian of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander into a single victim group with no regard for our differences,” Senator Price said, adding some who “advocated the strongest support… had links to Marxism”.

Not just “links”, but iron chains of ideological lockstep, including to literal communist organisations. Participants at Yes rallies openly flew communist flags.

Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor, also a delegate, said defeat of the Voice had highlighted how universities and the metropolitan elites held starkly difference beliefs from the rest of the country, forming a “an elite wall of consensus we have never seen”.

He said resource and time poor regional and suburban Australians had triumphed over a powerful coalition of “big business, government bureaucracies, state premiers, most media commentators, celebrities, sporting clubs, cultural institutions, professional associations, religious leaders and universities”.

The Australian

Well, an elite wall of consensus we’ve never seen since the last one. The most obvious, of course, was the Republic referendum in 1999.

Australians soundly rejected that one, too.

Meanwhile, stepping out onto the world stage so triumphantly at ARC only enhances Price’s profile and prestige.

And the suspicion that she is indeed shaping up as future prime ministerial stuff.