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".

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Weaker minds are easily influenced by charisma and content.

[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 9 points 2 weeks ago

A solution to this problem has been established recently

[–] ozzy@olio.cafe 9 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] hazl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] catalanmercenaries@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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?

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Racism is not an egregious issue?

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Report racist posts/comments and users responsible will be dealt with.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago

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.