‘You’re in the Minority’: Conservative Students Struggle to Find a Voice on University Campus

People march in solidarity with protests in the United States in Melbourne, Australia on June 6, 2020. Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

As Barclay McGain walked into the campus of the University of Queensland (UQ), the lack of diversity in political clubs caught his attention.

There’s the Socialist Alternative, three different climate change clubs, the UQ Greens, the Labor left, and the Labor right.