Why the need for The National Conservative Institute of Australia?
The National Conservative Institute of Australia (“NCIA”) is a new think tank focused on putting the nation-state and traditional conservatism back at the heart of policy formation and decision...
Resurfaced government document shows that Australia’s multiculturalism experiment was a divisive sham from the start
First published in SkyNews Australia July 2026 © Jordan Knight 2026. All Rights Reserved. Read the original at Sky News Australia
‘Decivilising’: Australia’s slide into chaos and criminality continues apace – yet our current leaders are too weak to even admit it, let alone fix anything
‘Decivilising’: Australia’s slide into chaos and criminality continues apace – yet our current leaders are too weak to even admit it, let alone fix anything First published in SkyNews Australia 17 June 2026 © Jordan Knight 2026. All Rights Reserved....
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Open borders final boss: One Nation and the Liberals will have to stand up to big business if they want to cut immigration
Open borders final boss: One Nation and the Liberals will have to stand up to big business if they want to cut immigration First published in SkyNews Australia 14 June 2026 © Jordan Knight 2026. All Rights Reserved....
‘Unliveable’ under Labor: Australians talk about leaving country for good as their chance to grow wealth is crunched by economy and immigration perfect storm
'Unliveable' under Labor: Australians talk about leaving country for good as their chance to grow wealth is crunched by economy and immigration perfect storm First published in SkyNews Australia 2 June 2026 © Jordan Knight 2026. All Rights Reserved....
The Jobs Australians Supposedly Won’t Do – Protecting Australian Jobs From Cheap Labour Is Critical
We are often told that Australia needs foreign workers because there are many ‘jobs that Australians won’t do’. Across a wide range of industries – aged care, agriculture, retail, healthcare, hospitality – a common complaint is that Australians are unwilling to fill...
43 million by 2100 Is A Choice, Not Our Destiny – With Asia’s Population Set To Fall How ‘Big’ Should Big Australia Become?
Australia’s rapid population growth is often linked to the sheer size of Asia’s population. Look how many people there are up there! Surely it’s inevitable that we will have to fit a lot of them down here… Recent trends support this intuition. Data just published by...
Recent posts
Australia Can’t Do The Same Thing As UK on Mass Immigration and Expect a Different Result
In Angus Taylor’s recent keynote speech on immigration, he repeatedly cited the experience of the UK and Europe…
‘Clearly hit a nerve’: Hanson, Taylor, Canavan rally around ‘Australia first’ terminology as fuel supply crisis triggers debate about nationhood
‘Clearly hit a nerve’: Hanson, Taylor, Canavan rally around ‘Australia first’ terminology as fuel supply crisis triggers debate…
‘Takes the sting out of their messaging’: The basic error the Liberals keep making that undermines Angus Taylor’s new immigration stance
‘Takes the sting out of their messaging’: The basic error the Liberals keep making that undermines Angus Taylor’s…
NatCon Australia Submission to the General Review of China-Australia Free Trade Agreement
https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/chafta-general-review-submission-national-conservative-institute-australia.pdf
‘Hyper Australia’: The refreshing vision you won’t hear Albanese talking about which seeks to reverse the nation’s decline
‘Hyper Australia’: The positive vision for our nation you won’t hear Albanese talking about First published in SkyNews…
Ability of big business to lobby for unsustainable immigration policies exposes ‘undemocratic’ nature of Australian political debate
Ability of big business to lobby for unsustainable immigration policies exposes ‘undemocratic’ nature of Australian political debate First…
‘The old world is gone’: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says what every reasonable Aussie is thinking about mass immigration
‘The old world is gone’: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says what every reasonable Aussie is thinking…
The Australian Right Needs Less Mitt, More Marco
In many ways Angus Taylor is like Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts and unsuccessful 2012 Republican…
The Existential Crisis Facing The Australian Liberal Party
‘Total death’: Fed-up conservatives troll Liberals with brutal meme as they bank on the party’s total destruction First…
The Australia that Labor created: Shock number of young Aussies thinking about leaving the country for good
The Australia that Labor created: Shock number of young Aussies thinking about leaving the country for good …
National Conservative Australia - Interviews
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Trade
NatCon Australia Submission to the General Review of China-Australia Free Trade Agreement
https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/chafta-general-review-submission-national-conservative-institute-australia.pdf
The Australian Right Needs Less Mitt, More Marco
In many ways Angus Taylor is like Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts and unsuccessful 2012 Republican Presidential Nominee. Both are clearly intelligent, high-calibre individuals. Romney graduated with top-tier results from Harvard Law and Business...
Hawke and Keating were wrong. There is a strong case for tariffs
The Hawke-Keating-Howard era is endlessly lauded as the “golden age” of reform in Australia. In no small part, this is because, in a sharp break with the past, our country – on a bipartisan basis – decided to dramatically cut tariffs. Perhaps it is not surprising,...
Immigration
Resurfaced government document shows that Australia’s multiculturalism experiment was a divisive sham from the start
First published in SkyNews Australia July 2026 © Jordan Knight 2026. All Rights Reserved. Read the original at Sky News Australia
‘Decivilising’: Australia’s slide into chaos and criminality continues apace – yet our current leaders are too weak to even admit it, let alone fix anything
‘Decivilising’: Australia’s slide into chaos and criminality continues apace – yet our current leaders are too weak to even admit it, let alone fix anything First published in SkyNews Australia 17 June 2026 © Jordan Knight 2026. All Rights Reserved....
Open borders final boss: One Nation and the Liberals will have to stand up to big business if they want to cut immigration
Open borders final boss: One Nation and the Liberals will have to stand up to big business if they want to cut immigration First published in SkyNews Australia 14 June 2026 © Jordan Knight 2026. All Rights Reserved....
Foreign Policy
The Australian Right Needs Less Mitt, More Marco
In many ways Angus Taylor is like Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts and unsuccessful 2012 Republican Presidential Nominee. Both are clearly intelligent, high-calibre individuals. Romney graduated with top-tier results from Harvard Law and Business...
Caution Ahead on the Asian Century
"WHEN I was a little girl you amazed me by landing on Mars. I'll always remember thinking, on that great day: you guys in Beijing - you can do anything." Australian prime minister's address to National People's Congress - circa 2060. My morning commute involves a...
Pollies cant denies horror of China’s communist stand
In recent times it has become increasingly common for centre-right Western politicians, in order to show their profound understanding of modern China, to quote the declaration chairman Mao Zedong supposedly made at the founding of the People's Republic. "Zhongguo...
Culture
“New” Right Jurisprudence Is Really Not So Radical
Is the best way to handle all contentious social issues in a nation to allow them to be determined at a state or local level? That appears to be the argument Louise Clegg is making in her latest piece for the Spectator "Refusing to Rule America". She cites approvingly...
The Australian Right needs a touch of Disraelian style and glamour
Some of my clever political friends have recently started to refer to me, wryly, as Australia's secret and powerful Disraeli Lobby. This is because of my insistence – okay, mild obsession – that studying Britain’s greatest 19th Century conservative Prime Minister...
The Answer for the Centre-Right Is Not Imported, Out-of-date, British Teal Progressivism, But a New Australian Conservatism
There have been many interesting reactions to the Australian Liberal Party’s catastrophic loss on Saturday. But surely one of the most bizarre has been how leading progressive Liberals have declared that we need “modernization” and a “focus on values and priorities of...