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A Trump impersonator and opera singers: CPAC was a spectacle, but the right still can’t agree how to take down Labor
Preferences proved the sticking point at the conference as conservatives face the prospect of a third successive election defeatGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastMany mainstream Australians would feel as if they’d been dropped in a foreign country at the Conservative Political Action Conference, lost amid oblique references to transgender swimmers, blue hair, women’s bathrooms, jokes about falling off stages and Matt Canavan in hi-vis and speed dealer sunnies.It’s an interesting spectacle. At this year’s conference in Brisbane, rightwing campaigner Monica Smit was deep