‘You’re in the Minority’: Conservative Students Struggle to Find a Voice on University Campus
As Barclay McGain walked into the campus of the University of Queensland (UQ), the lack of diversity in political clubs caught his attention.
There’s the Socialist Alternative, three different climate change clubs, the UQ Greens, the Labor left, and the Labor right.
Meanwhile, on the right, there’s the UQ Liberal National Society, which McGain argued is “not conservative” in his opinion.
There’s also the UQ Monarchist League, one of Australia’s largest conservative clubs, of which McGain’s the president. He said the club “wasn’t going to be started if we wanted to call it the UQ conservative club” because its values “don’t align with the student administration.”…