The National Conservatism Institute of Australia Podcast

My guest today is George Owers, author of the widely acclaimed new history book “The Rage of Party” about Britain in the late 17th and early 18th Century. Today we discuss: How the first political parties – the Whigs and the Tories - developed during this period Why this period has been relatively ignored compared to other times such as the Tudor, Elizabethan and Victorian eras The wild media envi...

My guest today is Dr John H Lott Jr who is a widely recognised as one of the leading academic voices in the gun control debate and is visiting Australia in the near future. Today we discuss: What the data shows about the effectiveness of Australia's gun laws The impact that restrictive gun laws have on crime How mass shootings are less likely where citizens are armed What he sees as the future of...

My guest today is Cheng Lei, a well-known Chinese-Australian journalist who worked for many years in China as journalist for both Western and Chinese news networks. She was infamously imprisoned in Beijing for many years on allegations that her reporting "endangered China's national security" before eventually being released after pressure from the Australian government. Today we discuss: - Her ca...

My guest today is Adam Creighton, a Senior Fellow and Chief Economist for Institute of Public Affairs and is also a columnist for The Australian newspaper. Today we discuss: The aftermath of the Covid hysteria, whether we will ever get a true reckoning, and what it has revealed about Australia's political and journalistic culture His views on trade policy in the US and whether there should also be...

My guest today is Northern Territory Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price. Today we discuss: Her involvement with the Australian music industry, the influence of black American rap music in aboriginal Australia, and revelations that her husband has experienced cancelation because of their positions on political matters such as the Voice referendum. Why the LNP did so poorly at the last federal electio...

My guest today is academic and prolific author Michael Lind who has for many years been one of the most prominent advocates for change in American industrial and trade policy. Today we discuss: The evolution of his thinking over the years and why he early rejected the open-borders libertarian right. The current state of Trump's policies, whether they have been beneficial to working Americans, the...

Professor Tor Hundloe is recognised as Australia's pioneer of environmental economics, having been at the forefront of research, teaching and practical management in this field for almost four decades. He has served as President of the Queensland Conservation Council, Councillor of the Australian Conservation Foundation, a founding member of the Queensland and National Environmental Law Associatio...

My guest today is Freya Leach who is, amongst other things, a commentator for Sky News Australia and Director of Youth Policy at the Menzies Research Institute. Today we discuss: Her background, how she became involved in politics How Australian politicians can do social media better, the hazards and opportunities it presents, and lessons we can learn from the US Whether women really are uninteres...

My guest today is Matthew Grant, National Governor of The Australian Natives' Association. Today we discuss: The history of the Australian Native Association, the role it played in federation and why it has been resurrected today. Why Australian history from federation until the 1970s is generally seen as backward socially, culturally, and economically by Australia’s political class Immigration –...

My guest today is Kenneth Crowther, the founding principal of St John Henry Newman College, an independent Catholic classical school in Brisbane. He recently completed his PhD in early modern cultural history and Shakespeare. He writes and speaks often about classical education in the liberal arts, and cohosts a podcast all about it, called Educating Humans. 1. The Chinese appreciate and teach the...

My guest today is Bridget McKenzie who is a Federal National Party Senator representing the state of Victoria. Today we discuss: 1. Her recent interesting CPAC speech and how it broke in some ways with the Howard era orthodoxy 2. Whether he need better metrics to assess how we are doing as a nation 3. How John McEwen and the National Party are often misunderstood and whether it can or should move...

My guest today is Danny Kruger MP Today we discuss: 1. What is his explanation for why the British Conservative Party failed so miserably that he felt compelled to leave and join Reform UK? 2. Is Reform UK a conservative party? If not, what would he say is its governing philosophy? 3. Whether there is still a market for David Cameron style progressive liberalism in Westminster? 4. What is the impo...

My guest today is Angus Taylor who is currently Australia's Shadow Minister for Defence and who previously held senior ministerial roles during the last centre-right government. Today we discuss: What he thinks about the Australian Government's just announced emission reduction targets and "net zero" generally? Whether LNP representatives should attend the "March of Australia" rallies and what he...

My guest today is Garth Hamilton, an outspoken Federal MP for the seat of Groom (centred around Toowoomba in Queensland). Today we discuss: - What he is doing in New York City and what he hope to achieve there - The divides in the centre-right in Australia on immigration, net zero, and other matters - What lessons we can learn in other countries about the future for the Liberal Party - The lessons...

My guest today is Queensland Senator Pauline Hanson. Today we discuss: The Furore regarding Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and whether she should apologize for her suggestion that the Labor Party misusing immigration program for electoral advantage Why we have not seen the same type of political change on the right compared to the UK, USA, and parts of Europe What originally caused her to become...

My guest today is psychiatrist, Dr Andrew Amos who has been an outspoken critic of gender ideology in psychiatry as well as other aspects of the way medicine is practiced in Australia today. Today we discuss: 1. What is the governing political philosophy is which governs his profession and how and why this politicization occurred 2. What we have lost in abandoning the more paternalistic approach t...

My guest today is Dr Dani Sulikowski, one of the most interesting and controversial academics in Australia today. Today we discuss: - What is female "manipulative reproductive suppression"? Why it is a key driver in civilizational collapse and how it explains a variety of modern social phenomenon from "body positivity", other women encouraging others to cut their hair short, to weigh loss advice....

My guest today is the Hon Andrew Hastie MP, federal member for Canning and Shadow Minister for Home Affairs. Andrew is a former SAS solider and an extremely articulate and thoughtful politician on the Australian centre-right. He has long be considered to be a contender for the leadership the Liberal Party of Australia and as a potential future Prime Minister. Today we discuss: Whether there has be...

My guest today is Queensland Senator Susan McDonald. Today we discuss: The serious crisis in Australia's mining processing and smelting industry with potentially 70,000 jobs at risk Whether the key plants, and manufacturing more generally in Australia, can survive so long as we continue with "net zero" and other related carbon dioxide emission commitments Whether we also need a reassessment of tra...

Catch up with Katherine Deves who amongst other things is a former Liberal Party candidate for the Australian Federal seat of Warringah, media commentator, and a lawyer in the high-profile Tickle v Giggle litigation. Today we discuss: How last week's hearing in the Federal Court went in Tickle v Giggle and where to from here What is driving the "teal" phenomenon in inner city seats in Australia an...

My guest today is Professor James Laurenceson is an economist and director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney. Today we discuss: Whether the 10 year old China Australia Free Trade Agreement has been a success The crisis in Australian manufacturing sector and to what extent China is to blame Why Australia has not yet undertaken the same type of reconsi...

My guest today is Damian Coory host and producer of the independent Australian centre-right weekly video news podcast "The Other Side", and also an experience journalist and public relations expert who has worked at highest levels in the corporate world in the Asia-Pacific region for over 40 years. Today we discuss: What the media landscape looks like for political commentary and serious cultural...

My guest today is Caroline Di Russo, President of the Western Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia, commentator and host of "The Royal Report" for Sky News Australia. Today we discuss: - What running a political party actually involves and the challenges in setting up a new one in Australia - The problems with the centre-right in Australia - women voters, inner city voters, and ot...

My guest today is Laoise de Brún who is an Irish barrister and prominent campaigner against gender ideology and other issues which impact on women’s rights in that country. Today we discuss: 1. The current state of play in Ireland and whether there has been as successful push back against gender ideology as we have seen in the UK 2. How gender ideology and mass immigration are related and what is...

My guest today is Dr Greg Melleuish who is a well-known Australian academic who teaches amongst other things on the history of liberalism in that country. Today we discuss: - To what extent Disraelian political conservatism existed Down Under - Whether the Australian Liberal Party was actually founded on "classical liberalism" - What he thinks of "Red Tories" like Phillip Blond and "post-liberal"...