Kirk’s Australian plan before death

NewsWire ^ | 9/12/2025 | Blair Jackson, Joanne Williamson

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Hundreds of Australians have attended a candlelight vigil to honour US conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, whose assassination at a Utah university sent shockwaves around the world.

Turning Point Australia, an offshoot of Mr Kirk’s Turning Point group, organised the sunset vigil in Sydney’s Hyde Park on Friday, attended by up to 1000 people.

The Aussie organisation’s director told the Sydney Morning Herald of plans to bring Mr Kirk to Australia prior to his assassination.

Turning Point Australia director Joel Jammal told the crowd the day Mr Kirk was “a great man” who inspired him.

“There will not be another man like Charlie Kirk,” he said.

Before the vigil, Mr Jammal posted online that “violence is never the answer to political disagreement”.

“Charlie’s life’s work shows us that if your ideas need violence to be accepted by others, then they’re not the right ideas.”

Mr Jammal told the Sydney Morning Herald there had been plans to bring Mr Kirk and his wife Erika to Australia.

“We were looking forward to bringing him out on tour because he was widely admired for his Christian values, a family man winning a noble fight to reconnect with politics,” Mr Jammal said.

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Joel Jammal, at left, below.