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

And much more

https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/jmbrett

https://www.amazon.com.au/Enigmatic-Mr-Deakin-Judith-Brett-ebook/dp/B072HZ22HB

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 EU and Australia
5. What to expect in trade policy over the next 5 years

And much more

https://catherinemcbride.substack.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cate-mcbride/?originalSubdomain=uk

https://x.com/ceemacbee?lang=en

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

https://www.aspi.org.au/bio/dr-elizabeth-buchanan/

https://x.com/buchananliz?lang=en

https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/so-you-want-to-own-greenland/

https://www.brookings.edu/books/red-arctic/

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 Australian political parties, women in the corporate world, or organizations set up to support women
• What the best arguments are for persuading about the importance of this issue
• What the outcome of the litigation will mean and how she is doing emotionally.

And much more.

To donate to her litigation: https://gigglecrowdfund.com/

Sall Grover: https://x.com/salltweets

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 Thatcher / Howard revival normiecon mindset
• Why some of the right have their own post-materialist worldview and need to focus more on bread and butter issues
• How to make voting teal a low-status position

And much more

https://www.page.org.au/

https://x.com/jhk_______

https://x.com/gerardgholland

https://x.com/migrationwaus

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 describes her politics these days and how it differs from the bipartisan consensus in Westminster
• Whether there has been any real change within the British Conservative Party since its defeat in 2024
• Why Brexit was misinterpreted and how the political class across the Anglo Commonwealth, unlike in America, has not yet done the necessary thinking required to implement proper nationalist policy agenda
• Whether she has much hope for the UK in the years ahead

https://x.com/kafkaswife

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/p/pk-po/poppy-coburn/

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, Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile and Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc.

Today we discuss:

• His journey from far right politics with the National Front in Britain in the 1970s and his conversion to Catholicism
• What he makes of the current nationalist parties that have emerged in Europe over the last few years and how they compare to those he was associated with in his early life
• His thoughts on Nietzschean vitalism which has become popular among sections of the online right
• Whether evangelisation alone is sufficient to repair the West

https://jpearce.co/about/

https://www2.hartfordcollege.nsw.edu.au/joseph-pearce/

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 forgotten in recent years with detrimental consequences
• Many of the parallels between the Canadian political situation and that of Australia
• Who is going to win the upcoming Canadian election and whyAnd much more

https://x.com/TheBlackHorse65

https://theredensign.substack.com/