The National Conservatism Institute of Australia Podcast

My guest today is Alexander Voltz is a young award-winning composer who also serves as the founding musical editor of Quadrant Magazine. Today we discuss:

• How important are music and arts to the identity of a nation?
• Should we consider post modern and similar theories which seek to delegitimise great works of arts and those that created them as not simply a good faith form of literary criticism but more a fundamental and hostile...

Katy Faust is a well-known American activist, author, and founder of Them Before Us, a non-profit organization advocating for children's rights, particularly emphasising the importance of children being raised by their biological mother and father.

Today we discuss:

- Why have social conservatives lost so many battles in recent times?

- How has conservative politics changed in the United States in the last 10 years?

- To what exten...

Anna McGovern is head of operations and spokesperson for the UK Women's Safety Initiative whose mission is to expose the dangers of uncontrolled immigration, put women and children first, advocate for victims, and demand real solutions.

Today we discuss:

- Why an organization like the Women's Safety Initiative is required

- How the situation in the UK compares to that in Australia

- Why does the political left on many issues (mass ...

Nathan Worcester is an award-winning journalist for The Epoch Times based in Washington, D.C. He frequently covers Capitol Hill, elections, and the ideas that shape our times. Today we discuss:

• The current mood in Washington at this time on the eve of possible military action against Iran
• What % of Republican members of congress are genuinely on board with Trump's agenda on foreign policy, trade, immigration and other areas
• The c...

My guest today is Dan Wild, Deputy Executive Director at the Institute of Public Affairs. Today we discuss:

• His thoughts on the last federal election campaign
• What he learnt running as a Liberal Party candidate in the seat of Spence, an outer suburban formerly industrial seat in Adelaide
• What he thinks of trade, foreign policy, and immigration and other traditional policies which are being reassessed on the right elsewhere in the...

My guest today is Morgan Cox, who became a household name prior to the Australian federal election campaign because of his heartfelt appearance on the ABC's flagship QandA program. In a short segment he explained the dire circumstances he was faced with as a renter and father of 3 trying to make ends meet.

Today we discuss:

1. The details of his current circumstance and family background and how the housing crisis is impacting on him

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Interview with academic Dr Eric Louw whose family has lived in South Africa since 1600s and used to be an anti-apartheid with the ANC but is now critical of the current government.

Today we discuss:

- What he thought of the confrontation in the Oval Office between Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa

- What the underlying causes are of the killing of white South Africans and whether it should be described as a g...

My guest today is Dr Judith Brett, Emeritus Professor of politics at La Trobe University. We discuss:

• What "liberalism" has actually meant in Australia - from Alfred Deakin to Robert Menzies to John Howard
• How it differs from simply "classical liberalism" or Gladstonian liberalism from the late 19th Century
• Where in her view the modern Australian Liberal Party has gone wrong and how it needs to better understand its history

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My guest today is Catherine McBride, who is an economist who advises the UK government.

Today we discuss:

1. Whether her views on trade policy have changed over the last 10 years
2. Whether the agreements the UK has signed since Brexit have been a success
3. What the "EU Reset" just announced by Keir Starmer means and whether it has de facto killed Brexit
4. Whether it is realistic to expect a high quality meaningful trade agreement between the...

My guest today is Dr Elizabeth Buchanan, a world-leading expert in the geopolitics of the polar regions.

Today we discuss:

- Why Trump wants Greenland

- The Ambitions of China and Russia and other powers in the Arctic and how concerned we should be

- Whether Australia is doing enough with regard to securing our position in Antarctica

- How she expects things to play out at both poles over the next 10 years

And much more

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My guest today is Sall Grover an Australian businesswoman and one of the parties in litigation originally entitled "Tickle v Giggle" which turns on the question of what the legal definition of a women is under Australian law.

After a brief detour in to Confucian philosophy, we discuss:

• The status of her litigation, and why the definition of women is so important?
• Whether she has received much support from women within the Austra...

Catch up discussion with Gerard Holland, Executive Director of the Page Research Institute and Jordan Knight of Migration Watch Australia.

We cover:

• Whether there are any positives to come out of the devastating loss on Saturday night for the centre-right in Australia
• The prospects for a new party in Australia and why the dynamic may be different here
• How the elite and donor class of the centre-right are still largely stuck in a Th...

My guest today is Poppy Coburn who is a journalist with UK The Daily Telegraph and has written and worked for a variety of publications including The Critic, Unherd, and GBNews.

She graduated from the University of Cambridge with a B.A. (Hons) in History and Politics, with a particular focus on the work of political philosopher Thomas Hobbes and was a Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute last year.

Today we discuss:

• How she d...

My guest today is Joseph Pearce who is chatting to us on the eve of his first speaking tour of Australia sponsored by Hartford College in Sydney.

Joseph Pearce is the internationally acclaimed author of many books, which include bestsellers such as The Quest for Shakespeare, Tolkien: Man and Myth, The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis and The Catholic Church, Literary Converts, Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, So...

My guest today is "The Black Horse" the anonymous X handle for one most interesting and perceptive commentators on Canadian politics and culture to have emerged in recent years.

In this episode we a do a deep dive on Canada and discuss:

• The underlying competition in that country between various power blocs
• The importance of trade and immigration policies on creating and maintaining Canadian nationhood and how this has been forg...

My guest today is Michael J Murphy who writes for the UK Daily Telegraph and Canada's National Post.

In the last couple of years he has covered extensively the problems in Ireland in relation to mass immigration and the growing political backlash.

In this episode we discuss:

• The scale of the problem in Ireland and some of its unique characteristics
• Why the progressive culture of the Irish political establishment has openly encoura...

Hans Mahncke is a lawyer and legal scholar who holds a Ph.D in law and has over 20 years of experience teaching at tertiary institutions across the globe.

For almost the last 10 years Hans has also conducted independent journalism on the Russiagate hoax and related matters. He has broken numerous stories and has close to 180K followers on his X account. He is the author of "Swiftboating of America" which provides a comprehensive ov...

My guest today is Lucinda Holdforth who is a former speechwriter to Australian Labour leader Kim Beazley, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, among others as well as author of several books including most recently "21st Century Virtues, How They Are Failing Our Democracy" which we reviewed for The Australian: https://nationalconservatism.org.au/culture/550/

Today we discuss:

- Whether there has been any change to modern corporate values which s...

My guest today is Phillip Blond author most famously of "Red Tory: How Left and Right Have Broken Britain and How We Can Fix It". Today we discuss:

• Why it has been so difficult to change the British Conservative Party since the release of his book
• Whether elected representatives of the British Conservative Party really understands conservatism
• His views on "Blue Labour", "National Conservatism", and whether Donald Trump is a "Red...