The National Conservatism Institute of Australia Podcast

My guest today is David Furse-Roberts a well-known Australian academic who amongst his many books has written a biography on the great 19th Century British parliamentarian and social reformer, Lord Shaftesbury.

Today we discuss:

• Who Lord Shaftesbury was, his background, and his political and religious conversion
• His criticisms of laissez-faire capitalism, his alternative Tory paternalist approach, and what he would have made of today's global economy
• How he might have viewed today's libertarian right, the radical left, and MAGA, and our politics more broadly

And much much more

https://www.amazon.com.au/Making-Tory-Evangelical-David-Furse-Roberts/dp/1532654308

My guest today is Harrison Pitt, Senior Policy Fellow at Restore Britain.

Today we discuss:

• What is Restore Britain? What does it hope to achieve? What’s wrong with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK? And whether the goal of Restore is to keep Reform honest or genuinely replace them?
• How he is approaching key new right issues like changes to trade and foreign policy which are not talked about as much as immigration in the UK?
• How practically and reasonably he thinks the demographic transformation of the UK can be reversed
• How new right / national conservative movements can help each other in Australia and the UK

And much much more.

https://x.com/Harry_pitt

https://x.com/RestoreBritain_

My guest today is Brian Marlow a well-known policy advisor and campaign director in Australia who has worked with centre-right parties and organizations here for many years.

Today we discuss:

1. An in depth assessment of the post-mortem review of the Liberal Party’s 2025 Federal election campaign

2. The change in policy and ideological thinking required in the Liberal Party and why there needs to be a better understanding of the new right and political conservatism more generally.

3. Our assessment how things will pan out over the next few years and why there the mainstream parties still have not provided an adequate diagnosis of the radicalism that has emerged let alone given any sense they understand the change required.

4. Discuss our own strategies going forward to help bring about change.

And much much more

I hope you enjoy our discussion.

https://x.com/BrianTaxpayers

https://www.reviveaus.com/

My guest today is Mary Winkels an independent regulatory and policy advisor and mother of 4.

Today we discuss:

• Her recent opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review and what the new advocacy group "Childcare Choice" is hoping to achieve
• Why childcare policy is likely to be a key issue at the next federal election
• What explains the ideological divide on this issue
• Why raising children is so difficult today and what really can be done about failing birth rates

And much much more

I hope you enjoy our discussion.

https://www.afr.com/by/mary-winkels-p538jj

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-winkels-02893580/

My guest today is Tom Switzer who is a well-known Australian commentator and foreign policy expert.

Tom has worked at a variety of publications and think tanks across the Anglosphere including the American Enterprise Institute, The UK Spectator, The Australian newspaper, amongst others. He currently hosts a foreign policy focused podcast called "Switzerland".

Today we discuss:

• The US-Israeli military strikes on Iran, what this means for the region, and whether this represents a fundamental change in Trump's foreign policy
• What role Israel has played in this latest action and whether this was legitimate
• Why a realist foreign policy perspective has had few champions in Canberra over the years
• How Australian trade policy should be adjusted with China and others
• His thoughts on the 30th anniversary of the election of the Howard government

And much much more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Switzer

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/switzerland-with-tom-switzer/id1867017379

My guest today is Keith Wolahan former MP for the Victorian Federal Seat of Menzies.

Today we discuss:

- His recent essay on the future of the centre-right in metropolitan Australia and how our situation, in his view, differs from that of the UK and USA

- The challenge that immigration, housing and the changing nature of the workforce pose to the liberal party and how we need to move on from the Howard era

- Some of his key data findings and in particular the Chinese vote

- His plans for the future

And much more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Wolahan https://inflectionpoints.work/articles/liberal-foundations

My guest today is Charles Cornish-Dale aka "Raw Egg Nationalist" who has published a new book entitled "The Last Men - Liberalism and the Death of Masculinity".

Today we discuss:

• Whether liberalism and masculinity are really in conflict
• Why "new right" in the UK, Europe and Australia have not yet adopted US MAHA style policies and why they should
• The link between endocrine disruptors and transgender issues
• The scale of harmful chemicals in the environment to what extent this is intentional
• What can be done at both a personal and political level
• How many eggs he actually "slonks" per day

And much much more

https://x.com/Babygravy9

My guest today is former Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott.

Today we discuss:

• His new book "Australia: A History - How An Ancient Land Became A Great Democracy"
• What he means when he says "Australia has been fundamentally a 'liberal' project"
• Whether Australia would have been different if we had not adopted the restrictive rules on immigration and high tariffs policies at Federation
• Whether he agrees with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the foolishness of "free trade"
• How countries like Australia decide, given the mixed results of the last 30+ years, what conflicts they should get involved or continue with in future
• Whether "liberal values" are sufficient to define or keep nations together
• What he thinks of my

And much, much more.

https://www.tonyabbott.au/

My guest today is Emma Dawson, Executive Director of the Australian Labor Party's think tank, the Chifley Research Centre. Today we discuss:

• What the increasingly inexact and unhelpful terms, "left" and "right", mean these days as well as what she understands by the term "populist"
• How the Australian Labor Party has moved on from the Hawke-Keating-Howard era and where it has not
• Her thoughts on "liberalism" and "free trade"
• Whether it is possible to have an adult conversation about immigration in Australia
• Why young women are turning to the radical left

And much more

https://www.chifley.org.au/

https://x.com/ChifleyResearch

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 environment and political characters during this time and
• What political conservatives can learn from studying this period

And much much more.

I hope you enjoy our discussion.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Rage-Party-George-Owers-ebook/dp/B0F98H6Q14

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