The Liberals have a Jacinta Nampijinpa Price problem.

The firebrand Northern Territory senator, so effective in killing the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, has been a major nuisance on the broad church’s far rightward pews. Price’s ludicrous claim that Labor is importing Indian migrants to win votes led to her being dumped from Sussan Ley’s frontbench and resulted in more sensible Liberals undertaking a grovelling apology tour to the exotic western Sydney suburb of Harris Park.

Joining Ley on that trip was state Liberal leader Mark Speakman, whose merry band of strugglers in NSW has also had a bit of a Price problem. He copped heat over initially defending Price’s appearance at a state Liberal fundraiser, right when her comments about Indian immigrants were causing a stir and threatening to make the party toxic among another large migrant group. Speakman later apologised for Price’s comments.

Now the apology tour is done, the Coalition is moving onto the internal climate fight it’s been having since the days of Kevin 07 – and Price is making a comeback in NSW. She’s set to headline another fundraiser next month, organised by the conservative Roseville branch, where she’ll be interviewed by Sky News silly bugger Rowan Dean.

The vibe from the NSW Liberals was that this was just another fundraiser and the party had to raise cash somehow. The broad church hosts events featuring preachers of all manner of political denominations, after all.

The Roseville event wasn’t supposed to have been Price’s only engagement in Sydney. She had been advertised to speak at a “Put Australia First” rally, calling for “immigration reform”, support for free speech and an end to net zero, organised by anti-everything activist Monica Smit. However, despite her office not returning our questions, she seems to have backed out of this gig, her name having been removed from online posts.

For all Price’s political talent, her comments on Indian migrants have made her a darling of resentful, terminally online basement dwellers who blame that diaspora community for their own failures in life.

So long as she stays tight with such people, mainstream Liberals who still aspire to win elections one day will be happy to see her remain in backbench exile.

Pete’s retreats

Pete Evans, the former My Kitchen Rules host turned broth-for-babies and MAGA enthusiast, has sold his property near (where else?) Byron Bay.

But the chef nicknamed Paleo Pete continues to promote retreats at the 7.9-hectare property, which was sold by private treaty last month after a lengthy campaign.

Evolve Sanctuary was marketed as a natural haven situated in “one of the world’s spectacular rainforest settings”, capable of hosting up to 17 people in seven secluded cabins and up to 34 people for stand-up and sit-down events.

Despite the sale, clean-living types can still buy tickets to events at Evolve Sanctuary, including a five-day fasting retreat ($2500), a bitcoin and wellness retreat ($2000) and a women’s wellness retreat ($1850).

The crypto retreat is payable by bitcoin. It features the team from The Bitcoin Adviser, whose calculator suggests bitcoin will grow 85 per cent a year for the next 10 years, with the disclaimer that Bitcoin’s historical compound annual growth rate has been “highly variable”.

Evolve Sanctuary’s website says The Bitcoin Adviser team will teach “the very basics of what bitcoin is, how to buy and the different ways to secure, and the future of this extraordinary tool for not only wealth but for freedom”.

As CBD has reported, Evans’ new cookbook, Healthy Food for Healthy Kids, is published by a charity chaired by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the vaccine sceptic appointed US secretary of health.

Unlike a previous Evans’ cookbook, it does not encourage parents to replace breast milk or infant formula with bone broth. But it does warn readers “not to use tap water (unless you have a well)”.

Pocock’s punt

CBD brought word recently that Wallabies captain turned independent ACT senator David Pocock had crash-tackled the Albanese government’s tardiness on transparency by launching his own disclosure log of people granted access to parliament by MPs.

While only a few fellow independents opted into the website, senate questions on notice revealed Finance Minister Katy Gallagher sponsored a pass for renowned feminist author Anne Summers, while former science and industry minister Ed Husic got one for Clare Gill, top spinner for online conveyancing monopolists PEXA. Pocock’s fellow independent Lidia Thorpe revealed she’d sponsored a pass for United Firefighters Union boss Peter Marshall.

Meanwhile, Pocock was part of a panel for frequently cancelled former ABC host Josh Szeps’ Uncomfortable Conversations podcast alongside independents Helen Haines, Allegra Spender and Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie.

The recording was part of an event in Canberra organised by Pocock’s mate, Instagram star Konrad Michalski (aka Punters Politics).

There was much banter, and a few jeers from the crowd, especially when McKenzie, Qantas’ tormentor-in-chief, defended her membership of the airline’s Chairman’s Lounge.

“If you can’t take their money and then screw them over, then you don’t deserve to be in this job,” McKenzie said.

We’ll keep that defence handy for future reference.