The National Conservatism Institute of Australia Podcast

My guest today is Dr Bob Birrell who is a well-known demographer and critic of mass immigration.

Bob was formerly a professor at Monash University and has acted as an advisor to successive Australian governments on immigration policy.

He is currently a president of the Australian Population Research Institute think tank which has just released a survey on the attitudes of Australian to immigration. www.tapri.org.au

Among other things we discuss:

- His recent report on Australians attitudes to immigration

- The impact of mass immigration on Australia in terms of productivity, social cohesion, housing, and fertility rates.

- Why Treasury has got the forecasts on immigration numbers so wrong

- What Australia will look like if we continue with our current policies

- Whether there is anything realistically that can be done

And much more.

Recent poll and research report conducted by APRI mentioned in the episode:

https://tapri.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Elites-vs-the-electorate-report1-2025-finalV2.pdf

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

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

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/

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 suggesting
• How Canadian elections differ from other English-speaking western democracies
• Whether there is any real difference between the Canadian Conservative Party and the Australia Liberal Party and whether any are really conservative
• What should be done if anything about the Australia Senate
• How matters like immigration, trade, free speech are playing out across the Anglosphere today

And much more.

https://law.uq.edu.au/profile/1302/james-allan

https://www.spectator.com.au/author/james-allan/

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 concerned
• What is likely to happen regarding the enforcement of these laws
• Whether Elon Musk and Donald Trump would be persecuted under Australia's current speech regime
• Whether there is anything special about Nazi symbols and whether they should be banned
• What is means for religious liberty
• What concerned citizens should do

And 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

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 trial

• What she thinks is ultimately driving proponents of the gender ideology

• Why it is that even politicians that agree with her do not have the courage to speak up

• Why there is an intergenerational divide among women on gender ideology

• What impact Trump's recent executive orders might have in Australia

• What she thinks of the realignment in politics in the UK and US and what is means for Australia

• Why Victoria is no longer the "jewel in the crown" of the Liberal Party and what can be done about that.

And much much more.

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 policy
• The 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 debate
• Whether the black-pills have it right or whether young men and and should pick themselves off the ground YMCA style

And much much more

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

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 evolved
• If X didn't exist what she would do
• The interaction between the online right and the mainstream media and the general public
• Sex differences and how they play out in politics
• Censorship, cancellation and the free press
• Whether many humans actually want truth
• Her views on religion

And much more.