Turning Point Australia is moving into South Australia ahead of next year’s state election. It is the Australian affiliate of late right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA.

On Monday, Turning Point Australia announced the appointment of conservative social media personality George-Alexander Mamalis as its new state coordinator.

Mr Mamalis is an ex-staffer to former environment minister and opposition leader David Speirs, One Nation MLC-turned-independent Sarah Game, and federal Liberal senator Alex Antic.

The appointment, according to Turning Point Australia, marked “the first time in Australia that TPAUS has formally established a state leadership position”.

  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    This shit is just embarrassing.

    If you want to form a conservative organisation that’s fine, but surely you could… you know… make up your own name? It doesn’t even need to be a good name.

    • hazel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      The name, or rather the brand, is the point. It’s like getting an H&M or a Uniqlo. Turning Point is a trusted, international name in the bigotry business.

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    9 days ago

    He did, however, say the group was “likely” to spend more than $10,000 at the next state election

    I guess they are counting on free runs by News Trash and others to make any impact.

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    Should set up a decoy state. Call it a swing state vital to the election and send all the US nutters there and have them piss fight with themselves

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    don’t know what they’re expecting, adelaide has been moving more left for a while now, it’s a nicer, calmer, more centre left oriented melbourne

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      my guess is because it’s the next state election in australia (march 2026)? can’t think of another reason for them to choose SA in particular

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      Heads up, the OP (ikt/eyekaytee) is extremely racist towards Aboriginal Australians and Muslims, as well as being a Zionist who supports the genocide in Gaza.

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        If a comment/post breaks the community or instance rules, report it and move on.

        Posting this in unrelated threads where no rules have been broken can be construed as spam and/or harassment. Please do not do it.

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          Sure thing, I’ll refrain from doing it in your community or instance going forward.

          I know of multiple people who have reported this user previously, so what would my report achieve?

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            I know of multiple people who have reported this user previously, so what would my report achieve?
            Mod/admin actions are typically per comment/post, except for the most egregious issues which can result in actions taken against user accounts.

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                  I just reported two that I could remember from your instance.

                  I also made this list yesterday. The whole thread is actually all about the user in question, so I think there’s some other posts by others that might showcase their character better.

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        (OP usually refers to the original poster, which for this post would be hazel@blahaj. Thanks for adding the account name to avoid confusion)