Draft:Drew Pavlou
Drew Pavlou is a Turkish-Australian far-right grifter. He gained notoriety in 2020 for protesting against the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the University of Queensland, for which he was temporarily suspended. While initially holding liberal beliefs, since 2025 Pavlou has increasingly expressed far-right views, such as anti-immigration, racism, and nationalism. He is notoriously active on Twitter, posting multiple times a day.
Biography[edit]
Pavlou was born in 1999 in Australia. His parents are of Turkish-Greek-Cypriot descent. Despite his anti-immigrant sentiment, Pavlou's grandparents were migrants who moved from Cyprus to Australia in the 1960s.[1]
His family moved to Brisbane when he was two years old, and have lived there since.
Political activism[edit]
Pavlou has consistently been an outspoken critic against the CCP, and its repression of the Uigurs and other ethnic minorities in China.
He founded the Drew Pavlou Democratic Alliance in 2021, an anti-CCP political party. The party contested the 2022 Australian federal election but failed to win a seat. The party was deregistered in November 2023.
Since 2024, Pavlou has taken extreme stances against immigrants. He regularly refers to non-white Australians as "strange foreign men", and argues for the deportation of anyone who criticises Israel or openly supports Palestine. He has described himself as "conservative on immigration", and supports limiting immigration to Australia. This is despite his grandparents being immigrants from Cyprus.
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References[edit]
- ↑ "The boy who kicked the hornet's nest". The Australian. Retrieved September 16, 2025.