Clive Palmer brings Tucker Carlson to Australia for ‘Freedom Conferences’

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Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News host turned divisive freelance journalist, will headline a series of ‘freedom conferences’, Australian mining magnate Clive Palmer has announced.

Carlson will appear at events in Cairns, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne between June and July this year.

Tickets are already on sale and start at $203.

In a statement issued by Palmer’s United Australia Party on Monday, the businessman said the tour is aimed at “waking up Australia and encouraging people to join the fight to protect the future for themselves and their families”.

“Through his Tucker Carlson Network and other hosting roles with some of the world’s largest news outlets, Tucker has long advocated that news coverage in the west can be wrongly used as a tool of repression and control,” Mr Palmer said.

“He believes democracy cannot function properly in a society such as this and the only solution to ending the propaganda spiral was by telling the truth about things that matter without fear.

“I’m a proud that Australia will have the opportunity to hear from Tucker and our other esteemed guest speakers first hand through this upcoming national tour.”

Now broadcasting via Elon Musk’s social media platform X, Carlson runs his own media outlet called The Tucker Carlson Network, with videos that frequently clock up hundreds of millions of views.

He has previously commented on local politics, including criticism of Australia’s gun laws and Covid response.

Earlier this year, the journalist became the first from the West to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin since the invasion of Ukraine.

Of his upcoming Australian visit, Carlson said: “I’ve admired Australia all my life and watched carefully from across the world as its government became authoritarian during the Covid insanity.

“I could hardly believe it. I still can’t. I know many Australians feel the same way, and I’m excited to meet them.”

In 2023, Palmer launched a $300 bllion lawsuit against Australia, alleging that the Commonwealth is responsible for a Western Australian law that prevented him from seeking damages for a rejected mining project.

Carlson abruptly left Fox News in 2023 when the broadcaster and its star host “agreed to part ways.”

The departure came less than a week after Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems in order to settle a defamation lawsuit over false election claims.

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