Opponents of a Melbourne conference organised by a pro-family religious group say they'll still protest despite the event's location being kept secret.
Organisers of the World Congress of Families conference have had to switch location three times, based on either security advice from police or cancellations by venues faced with a phone and online campaign.
Those registered to attend Saturday's event - to be officially opened by federal Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews - have been told the new location will be distributed late on Friday.
But hundreds of protesters are tracking the group, which they accuse of being anti-women, anti-gay and promoting intolerance, says protest spokesperson Debbie Brennan from the Coalition To Beat Back The Far Right.
"We know that this moving target keeps moving, and we do not know yet where this venue will be," Ms Brennan said on Thursday.
"If the World Congress of Families conference is either cancelled - or if it's forced to go way, way out to some remote part of Victoria - we have won as they won't be able to recruit people."
On its website, the World Congress of Families says it supports the "natural family" which is the "voluntary union of a man and a woman in the lifelong covenant of marriage".
Among problems facing society it also lists divorce, abortion and "confusions over sexual identity", along with human trafficking, violence against women and child abuse.
The protest coalition includes gay, abortion, refugee, single mothers and disability rights groups.
Ms Brennan said protesters would "disrupt the conference using our free speech" if it is held in Melbourne and hold a "victory rally" if it's staged outside the city.
Event organiser Babette Francis, from the Endeavour Forum, rejects the far right tag and instead says the politics of the World Congress of Families is "conservative and pro-life".
"I've got venues coming out of my ears at the moment," Mrs Francis told AAP.
"We will let those who registered know at the last minute," she said, as this would keep protesters "running around in circles".
"They can't do any more damage and can't kill any more babies while they're doing that.
"So long as they are focused on us, the babies are safe."
Several federal and state conservative politicians, including Mr Andrews, have rejected calls not to attend the conference.
Mr Andrews has dismissed claims he supports "religious extremists" who peddle an anti-choice and anti-gay agenda.
The minister was attending because it is a conference about families and relates to his portfolio, a spokeswoman told AAP.
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