By Riley O’Leary for the Griffith Journal

30 August 2026

A political “Right-Wing” Club is set to launch at Griffith University.

Founded by first-trimester student Jordan Dai, the group has been setting up stalls at Nathan Campus for a little over a week and currently has 13 members.

The club is currently in the process of adopting its constitution and is liasing with Clubs at Griffith to launch the club officially.

Currently, there are three political clubs at Griffith’s Brisbane campuses: the Griffith University Greens Club, the Griffith University Labor Students Club, and the Griffith University Socialist Alternative Club.

Right-wing Club founder Jordan Dai says that he wants the club to provide an alternative viewpoint to the already established political clubs at Griffith.

“It’s a club that’s been started so that students who have more right-wing or conservative or centre right opinions or what have you (can) be able to express (them) on campus,” Mr Dai said.

Part of the club’s preamble is as follows:

“We as a club recognize the enduring contribution of Australia’s indigenous heritage, immigrant character and contributions, Judeo-Christian traditions and Anglo-Celtic heritage development of our nation.

“The club supports equality citizenship and common purpose and believes that Australians should share equal in the opportunities and responsibilities of our great southern land regardless of origin, faith or background.”

The club is not explicitly linked to a political party, instead being open to anyone regardless of party, unless they are already a member of an existing student political club.

“For the most part, we love to see all people join the club who want to make a contribution and have an interest in centre-right ideas or have centre-right views themselves.”

Mr Dai says he hopes the club can run “affordable” events, which includes a potential memorial for Charlie Kirk, a U.S conservative political activist who was assassinated last September.

“We’re going to have political training sessions.

“I’d love to see on campus, for example, a Charlie Kirk memorial one year on from his death, that’s commemorating one year since his passing.

“Apart from that, we potentially will have future events celebrating Australia as a nation and advocating right wing values and showcasing what right wing part, different right-wing groups, organisations, so forth can offer.”

Other political clubs have their say

Sam Sayer, President of the Griffith University Labor Students Club, has said that he strongly disagrees with the platform of the Right-Wing Club, but will welcome the opportunity to debate them.  

“I say to the Right-Wing Club people that if they really think they can make a case, then they should be willing to do it publicly,” Mr Sayer said.

“We’re always willing to talk to any groups on campus as we’ve shown, I think, with some of the Greens debates, SRC debates, et cetera

“We’re comfortable with our positions and we’re willing to fight for them.”

Griffith University Greens Club President Sebastian Ward-Chadwick believes that the Right-Wing Club has not been created in the best interests of students.

“We don’t think that the Right Club is really in the best interests of students,” he said.

“Even if they claim not to be affiliated with a particular party, any club that claims to be pulling to the right is going to attract Pauline Hanson style of racial politics into campus.

“We don’t think that would be a good thing, especially for international students.”

SRC board member Kyle Low, who is a member of the Griffith University Socialist Alternative Club, provided a short statement on the formation of the Right-Wing Club.

“I think that we should fight disgusting right-wing politics, whether that’s on our campus or in the streets.

“Students do not support the racist, sexist politics of the Liberals, and One Nation.”

Will the Right-Wing Club run for SRC?

The SRC (Student Representative Council) Elections are coming up, to elect four members to the nine-seat board on a two-year term.

Griffith University Greens Club President Sebastian Ward-Chadwick confirmed to the Griffith Journal that the club would be running candidates in some capacity.

“We will be running for the SRC,” he said.

“You can expect there will be announcements of that in the next week or so.”

It is expected that the Griffith University Labor Students Club, who currently have members on the board under the Revitalise banner, will be running candidates once again.

The five Revitalise seats on the board were elected last year, so they will be continuing for next year as well.

The Griffith University Socialist Alternative Club is also expected to run a number of candidates in the election.

They currently have two seats on the board, who’s terms are expiring; the group will be battling to retain their position on the SRC board.

Right-Wing Club President Jordan Dai said that the club is considering running in this election, though has no formalised plans to do so.

“We will not leave it up to Labor, Greens and Socialists to battle for the four seats.

“We will, I’ll look into that,” he said.

Nominations for the election open on September 7 and close September 14.

Voting will take place over the week of week 10, opening Monday 21 September and closing Friday 25 September.