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Why the establishment is failing: Inside the populist revolt
What's really driving the rise of Pauline Hanson, Nigel Farage, and the global populist wave? Internationally renowned political strategist Isaac Levido joins the Menzies Research Centre's David Hughes to break down why voters across Australia, the UK, and the US are abandoning traditional…
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"We're actually poorer": The Decline of Australia I Senator Jane Hume
Why are Australians feeling poorer despite their wages increasing? Shadow Finance Minister Jane Hume sat down with the MRC's Centre for Youth Policy Director Freya Leach to discuss why Gen Z in particular are feeling the pain of Australia's cost of living crisis. Senator Hume also shuts down...
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Boris Johnson: Trump, Brexit and Ukraine
One of the world's most recognisable former statesmen dropped by the offices of the Menzies Research Centre in December to record a bonus podcast with our very own Freya Leach. To mark the recent publication of his new memoir, Unleashed, Boris Johnson sat down with Freya to discuss the reasons...
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Rethinking Childcare: Erica Komisar joins Freya Leach
Freya Leach, Director of the Centre for Youth Policy, is joined by Erica Komisar in this bonus episode of the Menzies Research Centre podcast, recorded on the sidelines of the ARC conference in Sydney. Erica is a psychoanalyst who brings fresh insights on how we can better raise our children. Her...
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Behind the Brief: What it's like to work for a prime minister
Freya Leach is joined by the MRC's new policy director and chief economist Nico Louw in this fascinating discussion covering the biggest public policy challenges of our time, from the Covid pandemic through to our current economic challenges. Nico, who was senior adviser to Scott Morrison and did...
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Brendan Nelson: The Art of Leadership
Brendan Nelson’s career path would confound any career counsellor. Over three decades he has been a general practitioner; President of the Australian Medical Association; a parliamentarian; Education and Defence Minister; Leader of the Opposition; Ambassador; and Director of the War Memorial. He…
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Jacinta Price: The Voice and Victimhood
In this special edition of the Menzies Research Centre Watercooler podcast, Senator Jacinta Price joins Freya Leach to address the concerns of young Australians about enshrining an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice in the Constitution. Senator Price, known for her work on Indigenous...
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True Believers: Nick Greiner
In this series of Watercooler podcasts, we’re attempting something big: to define the virtues that unite Australian Liberals in the 21st century. Our starting point is the We Believe statement issued to mark the 10th anniversary of the Liberal Party in 1954. Each episode examines one of the 17 We...
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True Believers with Tony Abbott: The Character Test
In the True Believers podcast series, Nick Cater revisits the 1954 We Believe statement which attempted to articulate the key Liberal Party virtues. In this episode, he is joined by Australia's 28th Prime Minister, The Hon Tony Abbott, AC, to discuss the influence of government policy on…
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Scott Yung: A passion for education
In this episode of the Watercooler podcast, David Hughes welcomes Scott Yung, an education entrepreneur and advocate for Robert Menzies' vision for Australia. Scott shares his inspiring story of starting from humble beginnings in Sydney's Waterloo, growing up in a Housing Commission, and…
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Advance Australia Fair: Freya Leach, Nick Cater, Keith Wolahan
In the True Believers podcast series, Nick Cater and Freya Leach revisit the 1954 We Believe statement which attempted to articulate the key Liberal Party virtues. In this episode, they are joined by Keith Wolahan, MP, a former military veteran, the consider the importance of patriotism and a...
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True Believers: King and Country with Nick Cater, Freya Leach and Louise Clegg
In this special series of Watercooler podcasts, we’re attempting something big: to define the virtues that unite Australian Liberals in the 21st century. The True Believers podcasts are the start of what we hope will become a wider conversation about the ideas that bind members of the Liberal…
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True Believers: Nick Cater, Freya Leach, Georgina Downer
With Nick Cater, Freya Leach and Georgina Downer. In this special series of Watercooler podcasts, we’re attempting something big: to define the values that unite Australian Liberals in the 21st century. The True Believers podcasts are a forum for free-ranging discussion that we hope will promote…
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Forever Young: Reframing Liberalism in a new millennium
Liberalism does not have a use-by date. Its principles are tuned to the abiding human condition, rather than the particular circumstances of the day. But the telling of the Liberal story has to evolve to suit the language and temperament of the new millennium. The Liberal agenda must be…
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Voice in the wilderness
Australians face the prospect of a referendum here in Australia in as little as six months time where they’ll be asked to decide there should be a new institution to represent the views of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people in the corridors of power. It will be known as the Voice, its...
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Henry Olsen: Crunch time on the right
For the Liberal Party of Australia, the loss of government in May after nine years was dispiriting, but hardly a novel experience. It was the nature of the loss that shocked - the loss of seats not just to their old rival, the Labor Party, but the loss of once-safe conservative seats in wealthy...
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Mark P Mills: The energy transition delusion
The modern world’s dependence on hydrocarbons won’t be ending any time soon, says Mark P. Mills. He says it is physically impossible to switch from coal, oil and gas to solar, wind and batteries in any meaningful time frame. “It is a dangerous delusion to base policies on the idea that such a...
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Michael Shellenberger: A nuclear future
The election of a Labor government in Australia has dramatically raised the stakes in the energy debate. Labor’s 2030 target requires the closure of 60% of our coal generation capacity over the next eight years, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator. If we cannot replace this with...
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Standing with Taiwan: Kevin Andrews
Fifty years ago in December, a Labor government led by Gough Whitlam signed an historic agreement with Communist China establishing diplomatic relations between Canberra and Beijing. The price China demanded was that Australia agreed to the One China policy, which demoted the independent nation…
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Gimme Shelter: Emilie Dye
The intergenerational wealth gap, driven partly by rising property values, is changing expectations and limiting life-style choices for younger Australians. The security of home ownership is arriving later in life, if it is achieved at all. Family formation is delayed as the 2021 Census shows...
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Alan Jones on Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser is Australia’s fourth-longest prime minister, taking office in controversial circumstances amid the turmoil of Gough Whitlam’s dismissal in 1975 and exiting seven and a half years later when Labor’s Bob Hawke thwarted his ambition to gain a mandate for a fourth term. Yet the manner...
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Oliver Hartwich: The Ardern experiment
Australia has benefitted greatly from the two-way trans-Tasman trade in policy ideas in the last 40 years. In the early 1980s, a New Zealand Labour government led by David Lange and his remarkable treasurer Roger Douglas introduced deregulatory economic reforms later adopted by the Hawke...
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The way forward: A conversation with John Howard
John Howard experienced both the highs and lows of politics during 33 years in Parliament, 14 of which were in Opposition. In this Watercooler Conversation with Nick Cater, Australia's second longest-serving prime minister draws lessons from the Liberal Party's 2022 election defeat and urges…
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Paul Kelly: The next chapter
The Liberal Party has been ejected from government in Canberra on only four occasions. Paul Kelly has reported on all four, starting with the It's Time election of 1972 through to the defeat of Scott Morrison's government at the May 2022 federal election. In this Watercooler conversation with…
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Katherine Deves: In her own words
The question, “What is a woman?” has become the barbecue stopper of the 2022 election, thanks in part to the pre-selection of a courageous and outspoken candidate in the seat of Warringah in Northern Sydney. Katherine Deves’ campaign for the rights of biological females not to compete against...
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Mick Mulvaney: Fail of the Century
Mick Mulvaney describes the sledgehammer approach to Covid-19 that shut down global economies for months as one of the biggest mistakes of the 21st Century. Mulvaney was President Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff when the pandemic hit. He says the withholding of information by China and the...
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The courage of Malcolm Fraser: Denis White
Malcolm Fraser led a Liberal Party Government for seven years and 122 days. When he lost to Bob Hawke at 1983 election, no prime minister except Robert Menzies had occupied the job for longer. Yet his reputation has been overshadowed by the controversy about the way he came power and quarrels…
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Benny Peiser: Putin's Climate War
Benny Peiser has been following the climate policy debate for more than a century. In this Watercooler Conversation, he joins Nick Cater to discuss how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has exposed Europe’s chronic energy insecurity and reframed the climate policy debate. Europe is dealing with a...
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What became of the rights of women
It might seem strange to be debating the question of what is a woman in an election campaign in which so much is at stake. But the controversy over the choice of a Liberal Party candidate for the seat of Warringah has turned this into one of barbecue-stoppers of the election so far. The rising…
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The courage to fight: John Anderson
The peaceful, western-dominated world order - secured by the victors in world War 2 and an incalculable cost - is showing signs of fraying. Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and Communist China’s global ambitions may have already propelled us into a new era of global strategic conflict…
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What's the point of university: Salvatore Babones
Australia’s universities are in trouble. A decade or more of chasing revenue from foreign students has changed the character of universities and left them vulnerable to external disruption like the Covid-19 border bans. The rankings system with which rewards research citations more highly than…
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Soviet Union 2.0: Putin's grand ambition
John O'Sullivan is a leading Conservative thinker, journalist, editor, and advisor to Margaret Thatcher. He’s the author of: The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World. definitive history of the events that led up to the collapse of the Berlin Wall 33 years ago...
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Putin's plan to defeat democracy
Rebekah Koffler is a Russian-born American citizen who joined U.S. intelligence where she observed the threat from Russia up close. Her book 'Putin’s Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America' delves into the mind of Russian President Vladimir Putin and reveals his ambition to dominate...
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Ukraine: The Pity and the Sorrow
In this special Watercooler Conversation, recorded 24 hours after Russia's declaration of war on Ukraine, we assess the adequacy of the Western response, its global implications and what it means for Australia with the help of Dave Sharma, federal member for Wentworth, former ambassador to…
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Frank Furedi: Democracy Under Siege
The lurch away from democratic government towards technocratic command and control has been one of the most disturbing developments in the last two years. Some are content to see it as inevitable as we wage war against the Covid-19 virus - that parliamentary process and executive accountably must...
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Australia Day Pt 2: Margaret Cameron-Ash
In the second of two Watercooler conversations centred around Australia Day and the need for stronger foundational narrative that accurately describes our country and that values that unite us. It is hard to have serious discussion about the meaning of European Settlement unless we can first…
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Australia Day Pt 1: Anthony Dillon
Anthony Dillon is a powerful voice for Australia's forgotten indigenous people, those without the privileged platform occupied by the educated, urban elite. In this Watercooler conversation with Nick Cater, he argues that ill-founded attacks on Australia are holding us back from true...
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Triumph of the Anointed
The Covid-19 pandemic was a gift for Australia’s putative ruling class, says Nick Cater, in this essay for Spiked online. A self-appointed nomenklatura elite has exploited a public health threat to infiltrate areas of our private lives we once imagined sacrosanct. They have robbed the Australian...
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Fanning the flames of race politics
The reaction to the torching of Canberra's Old Parliament House by Aboriginal protestors last week is evidence of the woke-ward drift of both the media and the police force. Nick Cater presents his latest column from The Australian. Read the column here: Email Nick [email protected]…
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Cater: Enough Covid panic
Omicron is the variant we can probably live with, says Nick Cater. So let's stop panicking about vaccinations and get back to living our lives. Nick Cater presents his latest column from The Australian in this bonus podcast from the Menzies Research Centre. Read Nick Cater's column in The...
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Values Matter: Brendan Nelson
In the face of the biggest strategic alignment in most of our life times, Australians must unite around values and reconcile their differences. Brendan Nelson puts forward a practical proposal for bringing together two conflicting narratives of Australian settlement and ending the controversy…
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Cater: After Smollett, the wokelash
Jussie Smollett's conviction for staging a hate crime against himself is a blow not just to his reputation, but the credibility of the woke narrative he tried to exploit, says Nick Cater. Read Nick Cater's column in The Australian:...
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Cater: A model of climate conceit
Labor's climate policy is so full of holes that it will haunt Albanese until election day as surely as it attached itself to Bill Shorten like some godforsaken seabird in a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem, says Nick Cater. Read Nick Cater's column in The Australian:...
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Leunig Uncensored
Michael Leunig is one of Australia's best-loved cartoonists. His work has appeared in The Age for more than 40 years. He talks to Nick Cater about the cartoonist's shrinking role as court jester and free thinking spirit in an age when the restrictions around humour are increasingly suffocating…
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Confronting secular bigotry
The Religious Discrimination Bill strikes a blow against the intolerable and intolerant religion of social justice. Nick Cater presents his latest column from The Australian. Email Nick Cater: [email protected] Book a seat at the 9th John Howard Lecture: www.menziesrc.org/events
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Party Spirit: Nick Cater and Tim James
The stability of the two-party parliamentary system is challenged by the rise of special interest campaign groups and the rise of minor parties. Yet joining a mainstream party is still the best path for individuals who want to achieve change in the national interest, argues Tim James. Tim James…
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Tyranny of Ineptitude
In this column from The Australian, Nick Cater argues that the exclusion of the unvaccinated from public places is an insult to our intelligence. It cannot be justified on public health grounds unless the object is deterrence through humiliation. Email Nick Cater [email protected] Read…
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Loaded Words: Stephen Chavura and Nick Cater
Stephen Chavura joins Nick Cater to defuse the loaded language of the anointed, starting with the terms “left” and “right”. As Thomas Sowell observed, while it is relatively easy to define what it means to be “on the left”, the term “right wing” seems little more than a label used by the anointed...
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Roskam, Hartwich and Cater: Covid, climate and freedom
In this Directors' Cut edition of Watercooler, Nick Cater, John Roskam and Oliver Hartwich discuss the things about which we need a more intelligent conversation. Nick Cater is Executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre. John Roskam is Executive Director of the Institute for Public Affairs...
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Rebooting childhood
Smart phone technology means the most dangerous place for children is alone in their own bedroom. In this bonus podcast, Nick Cater presents his latest column from The Australian. Read the column Email Nick Cater: [email protected]
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