Rightwing commentator says she is hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket and claims she was misled by promoter Rocksman

None of the 15,000 ticket holders for conservative influencer Candace Owens’ cancelled Australian tour are expected to get their money back from the promoter, after it spent all its money then collapsed.

Owens herself says she is hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket and claims she was misled by the promoter, Rocksman, a company with links to the influential conservative lobby group Turning Point Australia.

Rocksman collapsed with just 21 Australian cents in its bank account and will never refund Owens, her Australian ticket holders or other creditors, according to its liquidator’s statutory report to creditors, filed with Asic and dated 3 March.

Owens is a rightwing commentator who has since had a public falling out with Donald Trump.

  • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    104
    ·
    1 day ago

    Her 2024 Australian tour was delayed then cancelled after the Australian government refused to give her a visa as she had the “capacity to incite discord”, a decision the high court backed in October.

    lmao

    • plyth@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      12 hours ago

      Which is funny considering that all that conservatism was seeded by Fox News, a company owned by an Australian.

      • lolrightythen@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        10 hours ago

        Makes me think if the Murdoch’s wanted her there, she’d be allowed.

        She’s just unintended waste byproduct.