John Roskam: Senior Fellow at The Institute of Public Affairs

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 thingsHis views on Australia's Federation and the "Australian Settlement" and whether the criticism from liberal free market types is justifiedWhy 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.