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Milo Yiannopoulos has announced a new Australian tour

AUSTRALIA may face more violent protests after Milo Yiannopoulos announced a second tour — despite an outstanding $50,000 bill from his first visit.

Police and protesters clash at Milo event

GOOD news, folks! That attention-loving, Opera House-hating alt-righter with a bad dye job is coming back to Australia.

Conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos — who has made a business model out of saying deliberately provocative things — has announced seven shows beginning in late November.

He will be joined by fellow conservative Ann Coulter — who espouses the same views with slightly less terrible fashion sense — as they make their way across Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.

The online advertisement described them as “fearsome and fabulous” (descriptors can be subjective) and said the show “will feature Australian and British special guests”.

Yiannopoulos left Victoria is a $50,000 police bill, and media reports claim he is yet to pay the hefty sum.

Milo’s coming back.
Milo’s coming back.

Last month, Victorian Police Minister Lisa Neville said the bill was yet to be paid.

“He was presented with a bill and he hasn’t yet paid it. I know there is discussions going on at the moment with our government solicitors,” Ms Neville told radio station 3AW, according to Fairfax.

He was hit with the fine after a riot broke out at the entrance to his Melbourne show among protesters.

Two people were arrested and five police officers were injured during the five-hour ordeal.

Chants of “f**k off Nazis” were yelled by anti-fascist groups. Pepper spray was used after a fight broke out between two protesters and rocks were thrown at a police van.

Last year, Yiannopoulos was invited to Parliament House by Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm.

During an hour-long Q&A, he encouraged everyone to read Heitler’s Mein Kampf, saying people “should read the very, very worst as well as the very, very best that has been thought and written”.

Milo Yiannopoulos met with former politician Mark Latham at his Sydney office.
Milo Yiannopoulos met with former politician Mark Latham at his Sydney office.

On the Melbourne protests, he said: “I love it when protesters turn up to my shows. I want everybody to have their say,” he said.

“When people are yelling in the streets, it gets me off.

“When they start to throw punches, that’s when I have a problem, that’s when I don’t like it.”

Yiannopoulos was forced to resign as senior editor at alt-right news site Breitbart last February after saying sex between adults and children was sometimes “not that big of a deal” and describing victims as “whingeing selfish brats”.

He said older men could help young boys “discover who they are” when they couldn’t speak to their parents and offered “coming-of-age relationships”. He later denied supporting paedophilia.

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