Controversial backbencher Jacinta Nampijinpa Price spoke in praise of slain American Charlie Kirk. Photo: Russell Freeman/AAP PHOTOS

Assassinated American activist Charlie Kirk has been lionised at the opening of a major conservative conference in Brisbane which has attracted Australia's leading names on the political right.

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In her first high-profile appearance since being dumped as opposition defence spokeswoman, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price began by referencing the slain MAGA influencer.

"To the family of Charlie Kirk, you have my respect and the respect of the audience today," she s

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