My guest today is Dr Jamie Q Roberts who is the author of soon to be published book called “The Intellectual Dark Web (A History and Possible Future)”

Jamie Roberts is a Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/jamie-roberts.html

Today we discuss:

- What he means by the Intellectual Dark Web, whether that term is still useful, and what should and should not be included in that definition

- What unites and what differences there are on the online right

- Whether there is any hope that the new media and online right and will reinvigorate our universities and traditional media

- What the future might hold for IDW types and intellectual life in the West more broadly

And much more.

https://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Dark-Web-History-Possible/dp/1634312708

https://x.com/jamieqroberts

My guest today is Dr Bob Birrell who is a well-known demographer and critic of mass immigration.

Bob was formerly a professor at Monash University and has acted as an advisor to successive Australian governments on immigration policy.

He is currently a president of the Australian Population Research Institute think tank which has just released a survey on the attitudes of Australian to immigration. www.tapri.org.au

Among other things we discuss:

- His recent report on Australians attitudes to immigration

- The impact of mass immigration on Australia in terms of productivity, social cohesion, housing, and fertility rates.

- Why Treasury has got the forecasts on immigration numbers so wrong

- What Australia will look like if we continue with our current policies

- Whether there is anything realistically that can be done

And much more.

Recent poll and research report conducted by APRI mentioned in the episode:

https://tapri.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Elites-vs-the-electorate-report1-2025-finalV2.pdf

Dr Tanveer Ahmed is a Sydney-based psychiatrist, author, and newspaper columnist.

His books include The Exotic Rissole, Fragile Nation and In Defence of Shame. He has written regularly for the Australian Financial Review, The Australian and for the Sydney Morning Herald amongst other publications. He has served on local government and on multiple Boards and advisory committees.

Today we discuss:

- The recent controversy regarding the Bankstown Hospital nurses and antisemitism more generally in Australia

- How seriously we should take those remarks and how they are similar and different to other forms of sectarianism that have existed in Australia

- Whether identity politics is really a bad thing and why individuals need identity

- To what extent the problem is ideology rather than simply long-standing intractable ethnic conflict

- Other questions regarding national identity, Islam, liberalism and the west

And much more.

https://www.amazon.com.au/s?i=books-single-index&rh=p_27%3ATanveer%2BAhmed&s=relevancerank&text=Tanveer+Ahmed&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1