Alex Antic rolls out red carpet for MAGA-aligned WHO haters

June 17, 2026 — 5:00am

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Few elements of the identity crisis hobbling the federal Liberal Party amuse us quite like the antics of South Australian senator Alex Antic, predictable as he’s become.

The outspoken backbencher has previously downplayed concerns aired by his moderate colleagues, as this masthead has reported, that the demotion of a senior woman would trigger voter backlash by saying “the ‘gender card’ is nothing but a grievance narrative”.

Then there’s Antic’s previous opposition to vaccine mandates and gender reassignment surgery for teenagers. He’s also accused the ABC of grooming children for allowing a drag queen to appear on Play School.

So it was almost cute to hear on Tuesday that Antic, perhaps suffering a bout of Pauline Hanson-induced relevancy deprivation syndrome, was at it again.

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In an email that triggered eye-rolls among his parliamentary colleagues, Antic announced he’d be rolling out the red carpet for a parliamentary briefing from Professor Ramesh Thakur and Dr David Bell of the International Health Reform Project at Parliament House on June 24.

The project is an initiative of a MAGA-aligned US think tank called the Brownstone Institute, which, according to The Telegraph of London, has previously produced work commissioned by UK Reform........

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