The Guardian World · Oct 11, 2026

A Trump impersonator and opera singers: CPAC was a spectacle, but the right still can’t agree how to take down Labor

At this year’s conference in Brisbane, rightwing campaigner Monica Smit was deep in conversation with a Donald Trump impersonator, opera singers belted out the national anthem (the first verse, twice, for unknown reasons), senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and her folk singer husband sang the anthem again , and Karl Stefanovic jokingly thanking CPAC for “rudely interrupting my unemployment”.