The National Conservatism Institute of Australia Podcast

We interview former NSW Police Minister Carl Scully who together with Assistant Commissioner Mark Goodwin are the authors of an important new book "The Cronulla Riots - The Inside Story".

We discuss:

- What actually went on in December 2005 and how the true significance of these events has been misunderstood

- How the aftermath and revenge attacks were far more serious that what took place on Cronulla Beach and how the police responded

- How both the media and academics misunderstood and mischaracterised these events

- Some very positive elements that came out of the events in 2005 and how this reflects well on the Australian community

- What in his view it takes to make immigration a success

We interview Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) www.cis.org and a nationally recognised and influential expert on immigration issues in the United States

Among other things we discuss:

• What exactly is going on in Springfield, Ohio and why it matters more than whether cats and dogs are being eaten
• What problems the US has with illegal immigration that Australia has been able to avoid
• Why US centre-right has until recently talked very differently about immigration than in Australia
• Why legal immigration is the problem as well as illegal immigration
• Where we go from here.

Interview with academic Dr John Lee, senior consultant for the US Dept of Defense and former national security adviser to Australian Government.

Among other things we cover:

1. Australian treasurer Jim Chalmers upcoming trip to Beijing

2. What Australia's trade and investment relationship should be like with China

3. How Xi Jinping doesn't really differ that much from his predecessors

4. Ideology v culture in foreign policy

Regular catch up on contemporary issues between Jordan Knight, founder of Migration Watch Australia and Dan Ryan, Executive Director of The National Conservative Institute of Australia.

My guest today is John Roskam who is the the former long-time executive director and now senior fellow of the Institute for Public Affairs (IPA), a well-known centre-right think tank based in Melbourne, Australia. He writes a regular column for the Australian Financial Review, which he has done for over 20 years.

In this episode we discuss:

• How the philosophy of the Institute of Public Affairs has changed over the years and why it originally supported tariffs among other things
• His views on Australia's Federation and the "Australian Settlement" and whether the criticism from liberal free market types is justified
• Why he thinks the "Washington Consensus" has changed and what this means for the Canberra bipartisan consensus and how it might need to change going forward.
• His current views on foreign policy, immigration, trade and much, much more.

Interview with Gerard Rennick, Senator for the State of Queensland, Australia. Always interesting chatting to Gerard who is, whatever you may think about particular policy positions, a very authentic guy and has given a great deal of thought to where Australia is going.

We cover issues such as (a) how government decisions actually made both in Australia and internationally (b) what explains why governments across the world increasingly seem to move in lockstep (c) his criticism of the bipartisan consensus on trade, foreign policy, and immigration.

Dr. Samuel Gregg is the Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is a moral philosopher who has written and spoken extensively on questions of ethics in public policy, jurisprudence, and bioethics. He has an MA in political philosophy from the University of Melbourne, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in moral philosophy from the University of Oxford.

He has written and spoken extensively on questions of political economy, economic history, monetary theory and policy, and natural law theory. He is the author of seventeen books, including On Ordered Liberty (2003), The Commercial Society (2007), Wilhelm Röpke’s Political Economy (2010); Becoming Europe (2013); Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization (2019); The Essential Natural Law (2021); and The Next American Economy: Nation, State and Markets in an Uncertain World (2022).

In this episode we discuss a variety of topics including:

• What should trade policy be towards China (both for America and Australia)?
• How the "Washington Consensus" on trade and other matters has changed since 2016
• American trade policy over the years and whether periods of high tariffs have been justified in the past

Dr Gary Johns is a former minister in the Keating government. In his post political career he has been deeply involved in a variety of public policy matters impacting on Australia. Among other things he has been a regular columnist for The Australian, Commissioner of the national charities regulator, and the author of many books including "The Burden of Culture" and "The Charity Ball". He is the founder of the think tank, https://closethegapresearch.org.au/ focusing on aboriginal disadvantage.

In this episode we discuss among other things:

• His early political career and how his views changes since the Hawke/Keating era
• His views on trade generally and the new challenges since the Hawke/Keating/Howard era and the rise of China
• His views on foreign policy and whether there is a need for a reassessment after the last 30 years
• His views on immigration what possible solutions there might be to the challenges that have arisen

Matt Canavan, is a senator for the state of Queensland.

In this episode we discuss, among other things:

• What exactly should our trade and investment be like with China and more generally?
• How his thinking of foreign policy has changed since Iraq War?
• Why the "Washington Consensus" has changed but how the "Canberra Consensus" has not
• His views on mass immigration and what should be done including building new cities

Campbell Newman is the former LNP premier of Queensland and also served as Lord Mayor of Brisbane, the only person to have held those two roles. He is also son of Kevin and Jocelyn Newman who both respectively served as Ministers in the Federal Government.

In this episode we discuss, among other things;

• Why his parent originally voted for Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and how politics changed since that time
• How the bi-partisan consensus in Australia has changed on trade and immigration
• His views on JD Vance and Donald Trump and why there has not been the same change in the centre-right in Australia as there has been in the United States
• His thoughts on the recent protests in the UK and what this means for Australia