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There is no shortage of tourists keen to cash in on an apparent demand for their services in Australia

“I wouldn’t continue to seek opportunities in this space, and I wouldn’t have Penthouse continue to seek out opportunities in this space if it wasn’t profitable both in a monetary and a marketing sense,” he says

And the arrival of CPAC suggests conservative organisations around the globe agree.

“It’s really dragging the mainstream of conservatism to the fringes. There are figures now at CPAC who would have been considered beyond the pale of respectability a few years ago.”

“Members of the hard right in Australia follow American and British politics as much as they follow ours, they see Trump as this really important figure for the whole world because they believe he embodies the kind of global possibilities of the hard right,” he says. “We’re very much part of this global movement, or at least aspiring movement.”

via CPAC: how Australia’s rightwing speaking circuit went from ‘PR stunt’ to cash cow | Australia news | The Guardian