Australian Issues: Lauran Townsend and Vinay Kolhatkar

Dear members,
We have had to switch dates for the meetup. And now we have an additional speaker, Councilor Lauren Townsend!

Councillor Townsend was elected to Waverley Council in 2024. She entered politics after almost a decade of pro bono criminal defence work.
Councillor Townsend has been a member of the Liberal Party for most of her life until recently. Like many, she realised that the Liberal Party has lost its identity and lost its way and has now joined One Nation.
She will talk about why she switched political parties.

Vinay Kolhatkar will be giving a short presentation on what it means to have Mono-, Uni-, or Multiculturalism, so we can all make up our own minds as to what’s best for us individually, and for Australia as a whole.
There will be plenty of time for attendees to ask questions, make comments and interact.

And please purchase a meal and/or drinks. After all this venue has been provided free by Shakespeare’s so that is the least we can do.
Vinay is the author of the politically incorrect novels, A Sharia London and The Frankenstein Candidate. He is also a coauthor of Media Wars: The Battle to Shape Our Minds, and of Modernizing Aristotle’s Ethics, which was published by an academic press and sold to university libraries worldwide as a text for philosophy and psychology. His latest novel is Dreams of Orphans, which was released on 30th September.

Until August 2026, he was the federal secretary and director of policy for the Libertarian Party and ran in two federal elections as their candidate. He is also an occasional columnist for Spectator Australia, where he likes to warn the western world of the incoming threat of neo-Marxism and their alliance with terrorist ideologies.

See you then,
Craig White