Prof Frank Bongiorno - What History Can Teach Us About The Crisis On The Australian Right

My guest today is Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History and Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas at the University of Canberra and one of Australia's most well-known historians. Today we discuss: - The recent articles in Australian Historical Studies Journal to which he contributed concerning the so-called "Crisis of The Australian Right" and what parallels exist in our history to what is occurring now - How he understands the terms "left" and "right", "liberal" and "conservative" and how various parties in the the past have used these terms - Whether any member of pre-Whitlam ALP would be welcome in Albanese's cabinet and if there is even any common link between the party of old and today - Whether politicians from the Federation age and before the age of open borders liberalism have something to teach us. And much morehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bongiornohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-bongiorno-b9122214/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1031461X.2026.2694425