Alliance for Responsible Citizenship is back in London this week

Several Australians are attending to speak. We don't yet have an attendee list. This is an important networking event on the transnational radicalised Right.

The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) is back this week at London’s Olympia. Hope Not Hate’s Georgie Laming described the event as “one of the biggest radical right events in the UK and a networking opportunity for the global right and far right.”

Major fossil fuel representation is on show. The Christian fascistic Right has a substantial presence. Twelve of the UK and Europe’s far right parties are represented.

The body is a component of the Peter Thiel-linked national conservatism project. The speaker list on the ARC site is not complete. Reporting says that Palantir and Antichrist lecturer Thiel, for example, is also speaking.

It is important for Australians to know which speakers are representing us. It would be useful to know which Australians are networking there.

Of the Australian Advisory Board members, John Howard, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Amanda Stoker and Andrew Hastie are not listed as speaking. Hastie is out of fashion because he appears to be continuing a principled stand on Ben Roberts-Smith. I have had a tendency to omit Robin Batterham, Australia’s former Chief Scientist, as a tragedy rather than an operative. He is not listed as a speaker either.

Tony Abbott is crucial to note. He is fresh from speaking at the University of Austin which is a culture war entity that hosts a bust statue of Bari Weiss, co-founder. She’s the pro-Israel and Trump Zealot currently dismantling 60 Minutes and CBS as part of her campaign to cripple accountability journalism. (Note that the passionate Zionist family behind CBS’s collapse is also responsible for Australia’s Channel 10.)

As of today, Abbott continues to be registered with the Danube Institute, a node in defeated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s English-language culture war operation.

Of course IPA Distinguished Fellow Abbott is also the new president of Australia’s Liberal Party and a Fox Board member. Together with radicalised Right Lachlan Murdoch, he will be decide for the Liberal Party about preference deals and minority government coalitions with One Nation.

Former Deputy PM John Anderson is considered in the Australian media to be a co-founder of ARC, but international reporting usually omits him. The ARC conference in Australia this year was renamed Aspire, potentially to avoid the appearance of being an international influence operation. The new FORM Australia board behind it is stacked with religious Right figures, with one energy operative from Australia’s think tank operations, Zoe Hilton.

Gerard Holland has been John Anderson’s right-hand man at Page Research Centre, the National Party’s energy (dis/mis)information think-tank. Holland emerged from ARC and the Legatum Institute, the Atlas Network partner that spawned ARC. His current obsession and roadshow activity appears to be focused on the counter-operation that news about climate change and renewables is a Chinese information operation. This was framed as an attempt to discredit the news about the Atlas Network’s partners being a concerted climate disinformation operation exposed again recently in the Senate Hearing.

Greg Sheridan has been an ARC enthusiast from the earliest days, being the first high profile spruiker of ARC before the initial conference in 2023. He has also been a participant in Victor Orbán’s operations.

Also well-represented amongst the speakers are representatives of the Free Speech Union from various nations. Australia’s representative, Reuben Kirkham, is a less than illustrious figure in the grievance wars. The body does not appear to have made much headway compared to the UK and NZ/Ao branches, although it did bring ignorant transphobe Gary Linehan to speak in Australia. One of the founders of the Australian branch is an IPA “research fellow.” Read Peter Geoghegan’s reporting into the FSU’s funding.

Byline Times investigations depict the FSU model not just as a culture war effort to allow gross bigotries to be spoken without consequences. It is, they illustrate, part of Peter Thiel’s transnational culture war operation to promote “race” “science.” Thiel funding contributed to setting up this network of front groups that campaign against the silencing of culture war bigotry as hate speech. The idea that biological difference determines “race” attributes, gender roles and heterosexuality is a component of re-making eugenics sound “scientific,” an argument long debunked.

This new face of eugenics aims to position White men as the only “scientifically” qualified identity to hold public office. As a result of their genetically higher IQ, their argument runs, and more endowed with “natural” leadership qualities, DEI only fights the scientific facts. We might feel sad for these inadequate White men (and cringeworthy allies from “lesser” identities) who need to assert fake science to make themselves “superior” again, if they weren’t doing so much damage. Murdoch’s papers often platform Quillette’s Claire Lehmann: her publication is a node in the Human BioDiversity information space. HBD is the latest name for eugenics.

The NZ/Ao FSU branch has been much more effective and destructive.

I will not name the parents of the children killed in a car incident as ARC speakers because their tragedy deserves that respect. As Christian Arabs, it is worth noting, Greg Sheridan has previously used them to depict as the “good” kind.

Another speaker of significance to Australians is Mathias Doepfner. He is the radicalised Right German CEO of Axel Springer. That is the militantly Zionist media operation that has been described as Germany’s News Corp. It has been announced to be establishing an Australian outlet for Politico. It remains to be seen what Ryan Heath has promised the organisation about coverage of Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing. Nor do we know what his position will be about Zionist interests and their pressure operations within Australia.

This is crucial coverage from Sam Bright at DeSmog on the broader shape of the 2026 ARC conference. I highly recommend you read it and study the expandable influence-operation infographic.

There are several bodies attending from the Council for National Policy’s operations that are theocratic, operating to strip civic freedoms from women and LGBTQIA people. Tony Abbott has had interactions with these front groups at least since the era of Australia’s marriage equality vote.

The Atlas Network partner the Cato Institute is represented. This is ostensibly Charles Koch’s most overtly libertarian think tank. It is interesting that it continues to be represented amongst the American bodies pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into European far right work to strip women and LGBTQIA people of rights. Rupert Murdoch was on the Cato board from the late 1990s.

Present also is Ordo Iuris, an extremist Catholic European rights-stripping body that appears to have foundation links to Opus Dei.

This was my account of last year’s conference. It is noteworthy that the event has moved to annual rather than biennial standing.

Tony Abbott is a thoroughly connected figure in the network of radicalising right networks. His new role helming the Liberal Party makes this of critical importance.

We need to be demanding the Labor government focuses on the Australian figures representing transnational interests working to shove Australia towards the bloodshed and oppression we see emerging in the US and UK.