CPAC Australia, an organisation chaired by Warren Mundine, calls speaker’s comments a ‘comedy’ skit
The anti-Indigenous voice campaign leader Warren Mundine’s organisation, CPAC Australia, has defended a comedian who referred to traditional owners as “violent black men” and called the Indigenous leader Bennelong a “woman-basher” at a conservative political conference.
The CPAC conservative political conference – which ran on Saturday and Sunday – hosted a range of speakers against the voice referendum. One speaker on Sunday – billed on the agenda as “Dr Chaim Tsibos” – purported to be a United Nations diplomat and mocked the standard Indigenous acknowledgment of country. The speaker was later identified as the comedian Rodney Marks.“I’d like to acknowledge the traditional rent-seekers, past, present and emerging,” Marks said, to applause from the crowd.
Marks went on to say: “Interesting that woman-basher Bennelong is the name given to the land of the Sydney Opera House, whereas his victim and wife, Barangaroo, gets just a dubious casino, PwC offices and sandstone cutaways built over the land named after her.” Responding to another tweet which criticised Marks’ comments, the account wrote: “Cheer up buttercup”, with a thumbs up emoji.
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