Menzies Research Centre

Robin Batterham, a former Australian chief scientist, joins Nick Cater to discuss common mistakes in interpreting science, the role of experts in government policy and the future of farming.

Novelist Lionel Shriver joins Nick Cater to discuss her new novel 'The Motion of the Body through Space' and how literalism is killing literature

Nick Cater and Brendan O’Neill analyse the mutating crisis that began with COVID-19 and morphed into BLM riots

Robert Menzies believed that humans became more virtuous the closer they came to God, says David Furse-Roberts, whose book Menzies And God, will be published soon.

"The greatest problems in our society today are problems which are essentially moral or spiritual."

Nick Cater talks to John O'Sullivan, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, from Budapest about the pandemic’s effects in Britain, Hungary and the US.

Nick Cater discusses the Chinese Communist Party's culpability for COVID-19 with security adviser John Lee; the performance of the aged-care sector in saving elderly Australians from the virus with Aged and Community Services CEO Pat Sparrow; and the role of human ingenuity in solving environmental problems with Copenhagen Consensus Centre president Bjorn Lomborg.

Nick Cater and Simon Haines on character, resilience and the spiritual side of Robert Menzies.

Judith Sloan assesses the economic impact of the lockdown, former Minerals Council CEO Mitch Hooke explains why mining remains robust and Senator Jim Molan discusses the security implications of China's increasing ostracisation with Watercooler LIVE host Nick Cater.

Never let a good crisis go to waste: Nick Cater is joined by Tom Switzer to discuss the reform dividend that might flow from the Coronavirus crisis

Peter Kurti tells Nick Cater that government is the only entity with the resources to fight the coronavirus pandemic. But just important as the deployment of resources is the withdrawal once the pandemic is over.

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A lecture by John Howard conducted at an event organised by the Page Research Centre and the Menzies Research Centre

An exclusive conversation between John Howard and John Anderson from a Menzies Research Centre event in late 2019.

The Reverend Peter Kurti explains to Nick Cater how the abortion debate has raised wider issues of choice, social duty and libertarianism.

Anastasia Lin was born in China and grew up in Canada. When she became Miss World Canada in 2015, she seized the opportunity to shine a light on the oppression of human rights in China. She explains to Nick Cater that the brutal communist regime does not reflect the true beauty of Chinese culture. She is currently in Sydney as a guest of the Centre for Independent Studies.

The ingredients for a uniquely free society were all in place in Australia in 1860: universal education, free elections, a free press and separation of church and state were either established or being advocated. So how did Australians deal with this historic opportunity? Author David Kemp and Nick Cater discuss 'A Free Country (1860-1901)', Volume Two of Dr Kemp's history of Australian liberalism...

Campbell Newman and Nick Cater on the state of Queensland by Menzies Research Centre

The author of best-seller The Righteous Mind on the "consensual hallucination" of modern morality, and the sacred conventions that are necessary to bind all groups, religious or not.

NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet in conversation with Nick Cater on Menzies-style liberalism, fiscal responsibility, the religious vote, media elitism, the black armband view of history, personal aspiration and the current fragility of civil debate.

British political activist, blogger, columnist and creator of the ConservativeHome website Tim Montgomerie talks to Nick Cater about the various challenges facing centre-right politicians in Australia and Britain.

As society becomes less religious, far from becoming more rational, it is becoming less so, former deputy prime minister John Anderson tells Nick Cater. And the most popular remedy - morality decreed by big government - will not end well.

Brexit, Australian culture, humour and identity politics

Two world leaders of the post-Thatcher era, John Howard and his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper, discuss elites, populism, nationhood, Europe and the scourge of political correctness exclusively for the MRC.

Why Wentworth is an electoral outlier, sugar taxes fail, Labor is in trouble with negative gearing and a special interview with US transgender economics academic Deirdre McLoskey.