Conal Feehely from Get Up recently went undercover to an Advance conference and he shares some of his learnings.

Amidst some predictably extreme themes from presenters (for example blaming migrants and climate policy for current woes) Conal had a range of civil conversations with attendees with legitimate grievances looking for a political solution. Advance has a deliberate, ongoing strategy of engaging such people - preparing the ground and planting right-wing ideas as a long term strategy of political engagement.

Advance  is a well-funded reactionary news producing collection of rich benefactors and profiteers that certainly must and can be countered by grassroots people power. Conal talked about possibilities for action, particularly in relation to Get Up and its campaigns.

Link: https://www.getup.org.au/