Episodes
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Dr Tanveer Ahmed is a Sydney-based psychiatrist, author, and newspaper columnist.
His books include The Exotic Rissole, Fragile Nation and In Defence of Shame. He has written regularly for the Australian Financial Review, The Australian and for the Sydney Morning Herald amongst other publications. He has served on local government and on multiple Boards and advisory committees.
Today we discuss:
- The recent controversy regarding the Bankstown Hospital nurses and antisemitism more generally in Australia
- How seriously we should take those remarks and how they are similar and different to other forms of sectarianism that have existed in Australia
- Whether identity politics is really a bad thing and why individuals need identity
- To what extent the problem is ideology rather than simply long-standing intractable ethnic conflict
- Other questions regarding national identity, Islam, liberalism and the west
And much more.
https://www.amazon.com.au/s?i=books-single-index&rh=p_27%3ATanveer%2BAhmed&s=relevancerank&text=Tanveer+Ahmed&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1
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My guest today is Bob Carr - the longest serving premier of NSW who also served as Australian Foreign Minister in the Gillard Government.
Bob is a former journalist who has published several books touching on literature, Australian history, and his time in politics.
We had covered a variety of subjects in our chat - some of those like immigration and foreign policy - where I thought there is a surprising overlap with those who have a national conservative perspective.
On others, like trade policy, as you will see, he was less interested in discussing.
We also covered China, JD Vance’s recent speech, his views on Make America Healthy Again, who he thinks are the best writers and most well-read politicians in Australia today, and much more.
https://www.amazon.com.au/s?i=books-single-index&rh=p_27%3ABob%2BCarr
x.com/bobjcarr
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My guest to today is Dr Philippa Martyr who is an academic at the university of Western Australia, an author, a regular columnist of the Catholic Weekly, and one of the more knowledgeable people about the state of the Catholic Church in Australia today.
She has just released a new book “Witness: The Future Catholic Church in Australia” which contains probably the most comprehensive and UpToDate data about the true state of the Church and Catholic-branded organizations in Australia. It does not paint a pretty picture. However, she is a friend of the Church and the book also contains some thoughtful analysis about what should its future should look like.
In our chat we discuss
1. Why non-Catholics should care about the state of the Catholic Church in Australia today
2. How dire things really are
3. What the cause of this situation?
4. Whether we need a Catholic DOGE to get Catholic organizations focused on their true mission.
And much more.
https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/Witness-The-future-Catholic-Church-in-Australia-by-Philippa-Martyr_p_636.html
https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/philippa-martyr
https://catholicweekly.com.au/author/dr-philippa-martyr/
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My guest today is Australia-Canadian academic and writer Dr James Allan.
Jim currently is the Garrick Professor of Law at the University of Queensland and has taught at universities across the English-speaking world. He writes a regular column for the Spectator Australia and has been prominent in many public debates in Australia such as the recent Voice referendum, free speech restrictions, the government heavy handed response to Covid, and the debate about a bill of rights.
In this episode we discuss:
Whether Canada Should Remain An Independent Country or Be Part of the USA like Trump seems to be suggestingHow Canadian elections differ from other English-speaking western democraciesWhether there is any real difference between the Canadian Conservative Party and the Australia Liberal Party and whether any are really conservativeWhat should be done if anything about the Australia SenateHow matters like immigration, trade, free speech are playing out across the Anglosphere todayAnd much more.
https://law.uq.edu.au/profile/1302/james-allan
https://www.spectator.com.au/author/james-allan/
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George Christensen is a former Member of Parliament and journalist, who currently serves as the Campaign Director for CitizenGO Australia https://nationfirst.com.au/
We discuss among other things:
What the new hate speech laws mean for Australian and why people are concernedWhat is likely to happen regarding the enforcement of these lawsWhether Elon Musk and Donald Trump would be persecuted under Australia's current speech regimeWhether there is anything special about Nazi symbols and whether they should be bannedWhat is means for religious libertyWhat concerned citizens should doAnd much more. Details of the new Australian hate speech laws are found here: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r7240
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My guest today is Moira Deeming a well-known Australian politician who has been member of the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house of the Parliament of Victoria, for the Western Metropolitan Region since 2022.
Moira has risen to national prominence in Australia and internationally as a result of her battle resisting various aspects of gender ideology. She was also involved for most of last year in high profile defamation trial against then Victorian Liberal leader who falsely accused her of being an associate of neo-Nazi sympathisers and extremists.
Moira has an interesting and unconventional background for a Liberal Party representative and has long standing traditional ties to the Labor Party. The district she represents an area which has long been seen as being "dead red" i.e. an area where the centre-right has no chance of success. Today we discuss:
How she is holding up after her long trialWhat she thinks is ultimately driving proponents of the gender ideologyWhy it is that even politicians that agree with her do not have the courage to speak upWhy there is an intergenerational divide among women on gender ideologyWhat impact Trump's recent executive orders might have in AustraliaWhat she thinks of the realignment in politics in the UK and US and what is means for AustraliaWhy Victoria is no longer the "jewel in the crown" of the Liberal Party and what can be done about that.And much much more.
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Dan Ryan, Executive Director of NatCon Australia and Jordan Knight, Founder of Migration Watch get together on the day of Donald Trump formally takes office.
We discuss among other things:
The aesthetic of the new right and how Trump's use of YMCA as his campaign theme song fits in to it - or does it?How serious is Trump about annexing Canada and whether there is some deeper logic behind it as a way of getting other Anglophone countries to man up The reaction from the mainstream left and right in Australia to the Trump victory and whether there is any evidence they understand the national conservative agenda Marco Rubio confirmation hearing speech to be new US Secretary of State, how he is political astute, and talks in a way no Australian politician yet does on trade, immigration and foreign policyThe in-fights on the new right - HIB visas, Vivek Ramaswamy and how the tech bros misunderstood the immigration debate, Elon's involvement in the UK grooming gangs debateWhether the black-pills have it right or whether young men and and should pick themselves off the ground YMCA styleAnd much much more
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My guest today is Ian Fletcher who is one of the leading academic critics of free trade in the United States today. Ian is on the advisory board of the Coalition for a Prosperous America and is the author or co-author of many books including Free Trade Doesn’t Work, The Conservative Case against Free Trade, and most recently Industrial Policy for the United States.
https://prosperousamerica.org/advisory-board/ian-fletcher/ https://www.amazon.com.au/stores/author/B003BDMOEI
We discuss among other things:
- Who is going to be in charge of trade and industrial policy in Trump 2.0
- What the impact of Trump trade policy on Australia is likely to be
- What trade and industrial policy means for the USD and for currencies
- How industrial policy can be done poorly and how to avoid some of the downsides
- What Australia's trade policy should be like going forward - How to determine what goods you need to produce locally and which (if any) you can be comfortable importing
And much more
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My guest today is Aimee Terese a well-known online political and social commentator x.com/aimeeterese .
Aimee is Australian although she is not particularly well known in her homeland. However, she does have a prolific following on X and is influential in online right circles in the United States and elsewhere.
Today we discuss:
How she sees herself and how her political views evolvedIf X didn't exist what she would doThe interaction between the online right and the mainstream media and the general publicSex differences and how they play out in politicsCensorship, cancellation and the free pressWhether many humans actually want truth Her views on religionAnd much more.
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Today I speak with Avik Roy who is a US conservative commentator, activist and founder of the foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity https://freopp.org/team/the-freopp-founders-avik-roy/
He has particular expertise in health care reform and has advised Mitt Romney and other Republican Presidential candidates in this area.
He has also been a prominent critic of the national conservative movement in the United States and was instrumental in pulling together something call "The Freedom Conservative Statement of Principles" found here: https://www.freedomconservatism.org/p/freedom-conservatism-a-statement
We talk briefly about health care in the United States, how concerns about Obamacare did not feature as much in the most recent Presidential election as they have in the past, and his view about what the appointments of RFK Jr and Jay Battachaya mean.
We then get in to national conservative v freedom conservative debate. His views on JD Vance, Trump and some of the key areas such as trade, foreign policy and immigration, where NatCons and his freedom cons have different approaches, and whether this is all just a rehash of what Disraeli and Gladstone were debating in the 19th Century.
Hope you enjoy.
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Andrew is a Senior Policy Analyst in Trade Policy at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC. Used to work for the British and American governments dealing with foreign policy and trade issues for many years.
We discuss:
Who is actually going to be in charge of trade policy under Trump 2.0?What trade policies are likely to be actually implemented?What will be the likely trading relationship between China and the US in future?Will Australia receive or need an exemption from any new trade policies?What should Australia's trade policy be going forward? Should we implement tariffs on China?And much more.
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Interview with Simon Hankinson - Senior Research Fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation
How much of a focus immigration now is among think tanks in the US Capital and how much this has changed since the pre-Trump eraWhat Trump's policy is likely to be with respect to legal immigrationWhy Tucker Carlson seems to like The Heritage Foundation rather than other DC think tanksHow diversity, equity and inclusion programmes undermine US foreign policyAnd much more
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Jordan and Dan catch up Among other things we discuss:
- Reactions to immigration restriction speech by tech entrepreneur Matt Barrie
- Why the major parties in Australia aren't doing anything about mass immigration even though Kier Starmer and Justin Trudeau are making statements, at least in theory, saying numbers must be cut dramatically
- Why ABC Chairman Kim Williams and the mainstream media in Australia remain clueless about the new media environment
- Why are single women not voting for Trump unlike other demographic groups and what to do about it
- Why the reaction to the synagogue attack in Melbourne largely avoids the real issue of immigration
And much more
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Gregory R. Copley is a strategic analyst who for over half century worked at the highest levels with various governments around the world.
He currently serves as President of the Washington-based International Strategic Studies Association and is editor-in-chief of the online journal Defence & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy. Born in Western Australia, he Member of the Order of Australia and is the author or co-author of over 35 books. Further information found here: https://www.strategicstudies.org/issa/GRCbio.htm
We discuss:
How he ended up in Washington DCWhy has detailed in-country knowledge been degraded and what it meansHow does one strike the balance between covert operations that a state needs to conduct to secure its interests and what its nations citizens should be entitled to knowWhat should Australia's trade policy be with the United States and China going forwardWhat lessons the Normans can teach us todayWhat should Australia aspire to be as a nation in 50 yearsAnd much more
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My guest today is Dr Gordon Menzies. Gordon is an Associate Professor in Economics at the UTS Business School in Sydney.
He has had an illustrious academic career. Amongst other things he received his PhD from Oxford University and is a former economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia.
In 2021 he published a book “Western Fundamentalism – Democracy, Sex and the Liberation of Man”.
We discuss:
Whether “liberalism” should be compared to a fundamentalist ideologyHow he now feels about the economic liberalisation of the 1980s in Australia in which he was deeply involved at a policy making levelHow economic liberal thinking has influenced modern relationship and has changed their natureWhat is wrong with the view that ever-increasing social, economic and sexual freedom will lead to greater happinessThe problem of viewing traditional social institutions and customary restraints as simply individual choice within an overall liberal frameworkWhether there is cure for liberal fundamentalismAnd much more.
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Gray Connolly is a Barrister-at-Law in Coram Chambers in Sydney, Australia. His practice is mainly in constitutional law, public law, as well as corporations and resources law. Gray has advised the Australian Government on national security and public law matters.
Gray served previously as a naval intelligence officer in the Royal Australian Navy in the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, East Timor, and the Middle East, including service in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Gray also periodically writes on national security and governance matters from a conservative perspective. He keeps a blog at “Strategy Counsel” and his Twitter is @GrayConnolly
Wide-ranging discussion befitting a man with such deep and broad knowledge about so many things. We cover his political development, Ukraine, Middle East, China, Big Australia, and how close we are to our modern day Caesar crossing the Rubicon.
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Virginia is a former ABC journalist and now freelance writer based on a farm in southern NSW where she lives there with her husband and four kids.
She is a regular contributor to The Australian, author of soon to be published book “All Mothers Work”, and founder of www.parentsworkcollective.org.au
She recently spoke at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship in Sydney where we met. In this interview we discuss:
How we can improve the image of motherhood in the media, why this is necessary, and how this might be achievedWhat a sensible pro-natalist / family policy looks like and how we need to make parenting less of a heroic undertaking than it currently isWhat she makes of the "tradwife" phenomenonWhat single professional career-minded women do and don't understand about motherhood - pros and consWhether she considers herself a feminist and her views on Simone De Beauvoir, Betty Friedan and othersAnd much more
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I speak with UK academic Dr Daniel Pitt about his recent book on Post-liberalism and the Future of Conservatism. We discuss among other things:
The situation in the UK today and why, despite having many erudite and interesting intellectuals, journalists, podcasters on the right, British politics is such a basket case at the momentHow British conservatism differs from conservatism in the new worldWhether and how liberals and conservatism should cooperate?Why Australia does not have the same intellectual tradition when it comes to "conservatism"What "national conservatism" actually means and how it differs (if at all) from past versions of conservatismWhere "red toryism" and "blue labour" are now What a post-liberal and future conservative future looks like.And much more.
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My guest today is Tim Andrews is Director of Consumer Issues for Americans for Tax Reform based in Washington DC.
He was previously Executive Director of the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance is or has been on the boards of a host of free market think tanks globally including the HR Nicholls Society, and the Australian Libertarian Society. He previously ran the very successful Friedman Conferences in Sydney for many years.
We discussed:
The current mood in Washington DC and how people are reactingHis interpretation of Trump policy framework and whether it really differs from the previous Reagan centre-right Washington ConsensusHis views on Ukraine war His views on immigration and his personal experience with the Cronulla Riots in SydneyOur long standing argument on trade policy and why he still is in favour of free tradeWhether if any of his policy positions have changed since Trump rise in 2015. How the Trump presidency could go wrong and whether the current national conservative moment could in turn followed by a more libertarian moment in due courseAnd much more.
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Jordan and Dan catch up to discuss the US Election (with joy)!
Among other things we discuss:
Why Gen X and Gen X swung strongly behind TrumpHow Trump 2024 differs from 2016What the new coalition of Tech Bros (Elon, Theil, etc), Media Bros (Rogan, Tucket, etc) , Health Bros (RFK Jr, etc), and Thinking Bros (JD Vance, Vivek, etc) make the MAGA agenda stronger and more durableHow the Australian mainstream media and the political class still don't get itHow the UK political class are especially cluelessHow it could all go wrong and right over the next 4 years - Montre plus
