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...
The Problem With The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship and the Wine and Cheeseboard Right
What should be the most important issue of the 2025 federal election in Australia? Nuclear power? Whacking woke? The gender wars? Taxes and costs of living? Some new or existing foreign conflict in Europe, the Middle East, or Asia? All worthy topics of discussion, no...
How Australian “Normiecons” Still Don’t Get The New Right
Every morning, I wake up and scan hopefully the opinion pages of The Australian for any sign of a sympathetic or proper understanding of the ‘new right’ – the dynamic intellectual movement that powered Trump to the White House and is upending governments across...
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Why the centre right in Australia shouldn’t have a “black armband view of history” when it comes to Federation.
The Australia Day debating season has now finally, mercifully, come to an end for another year. What is clear is that the political right and left in this country have very different perspectives about how 26th January, 1788 – the date a new British colony was...
Lessons from the New American Right
Australian centre-right politicians are very fond of quoting Winston Churchill. One of the last pieces of advice that great wartime leader gave before finally stepping down was that: ‘We must never get out of step with the Americans – never.’ Today, it is striking how...
After Jim Chambers’ Trip to Beijing, Our China Trade Policy Remains on Autopilot
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers flew back from Beijing last weekend keen to emphasise that our trade relationship with China has been, to use the overused buzzword of this government, ‘stabilised’. Now a lack of turbulence is admittedly what you want as you settle...
We’re losing our streets – Nobody knows what to do about Hezbollah supporters in Australia
Around the time of the Cronulla riots, the population of residents born in the Middle East numbered around 193,633. As of 2021, the MENA (Middle East, North African) population numbers around 800,000. Islam today is the second fastest growing religion in the country,...
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Labor’s six-figure student caps won’t solve a thing
Labor’s six-figure student caps won’t solve a thing People are angry about Labor’s plan to cap international students…
Immigration is a working class issue – and it deserves representation
Immigration is a working class issue – and it deserves representation My dad was a union man. He…
The kids are all right: Why Europe’s conservative youthquake is heading to Australia
Is conservatism cool again? Well, not really, no. But “something is happening out there,” according to Reform leader…
Labor must put young Aussie battlers before international students
The growing debate around international students ultimately comes down to a single question: does the government think housing…
Why Menzies was a National Conservative
Since the publication of John Howard’s “The Menzies Era” almost a decade ago, there has been an unexpected…
On Trade Australia Needs More Alexander Hamilton and Less Hawke/Keating/Howard
The Albanese government’s Future Built in Australia plan, if nothing else, has certainly caused an unexpected outbreak of…
The Dark Ages in Australia Were Not So Dark
Francesco di Petracco, better known as ‘Petrarch’, is rightly recognised as an artistic genius, the greatest scholar of…
Abbott’s free trade deal with China needs a rethink
The China-Australia Free Trade Agreement celebrated its five-year anniversary at the end of 2020. What are the odds…
Understanding National Conservatism
Understanding National Conservatism The Economist, the British magazine well-known for its particular metropolitan liberal worldview, had a pearl-clutching cover…
It’s Time Business Woke Up to Itself
Several years back I happened to meet author James Bartholomew, the person who can legitimately claim to have…
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NatConOz Interview – Jason Richwine, Centre for Immigration Studies: An Update on Deportations and other Immigration Policy Developments in the USA
NatConOz Interview: Dr Stephen McInerney – Australian identity in a time of multiculturalism and poetry in the TikTok Age
NatConOz Interview: Fleur Meston – Westminster Bubble Update and the Future of British Conservatism
NatConOz Interview: Mark Leach, Co-Founder of “Never Again is Now”
Dr Frank Salter – “Multiculturalism, Civic Nationalism, and Ethno-nationalism”
Dr Jamie Q Roberts – Author of “The Intellectual Dark Web: A History (And Possible Future)
Dr Bob Birrell, Leading Demographer: “The True State of Australia’s Immigration Disaster”
Tanveer Ahmed – Psychiatrist/Author – “The Bankstown Hospital Nurses and Antisemitism in Australia”
NatConOz: Bob Carr, Writer/Premier/Foreign Minister: “Trump, Australia, and Rethinking the Right”
NatConOz: Dr Philippa Martyr – “The Future of The Catholic Church in Australia and Why It Matters”
NatConOz Interview: Dr Jim Allan – “Should Canada Remain An Independent Country?”
NatConOz Interview: George Christensen – The Serious Threats to Free Speech in Australia
NatConOz Interview – Moira Deeming – The Fight Against Gender Ideology Extremism in Australia
NatCon Oz – “Bookish and Based” Catch Up – United States President Inauguration Day Special
NatConOz Interview – Ian Fletcher – What Trump 2.0 Trade and Industrial Policy Should Look Like
NatConOz Interview – Aimee Terese – Aussie Queen of Online New Right
NatConOz Interview – Avik Roy – Prominent American Critic of National Conservatism
Interview with Andrew Hale – Senior Policy Analyst (Trade), Heritage Foundation – What will Trump 2.0 trade policies mean for Australia?
Interview with Simon Hankinson, Senior Research Fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at Heritage Foundation
NatCon Oz – “Bookish and Based” Catch Up – End of Year Wrap Up
Interview with Dr Gordon Menzies – Is Liberalism a Fundamentalist Ideology?
NatCon Oz Interview: Gregory R Copley – Long Time Washington DC-based Australian Strategic Analyst
NatCon Oz – Interview with Gray Connolly – Barrister, National Security Thinker, Conservative
NatCon Oz – Interview Virginia Tapscott – Columnist for The Australian – How Did We Get Family Policy So Wrong?
Jordan Knight on Spectator TV Discussing Immigration Policy
NatCon Oz – Dr Daniel Pitt – Post-Liberalism and the Future of Conservatism
NatCon Oz – Tim Andrews – Americans for Tax Reform – The Post Trump Victory View from Washington DC
NatCon Oz – “Bookish and Based” Catch Up – United States Post Election Special!
NatCon Oz – John Ruddick – Can Libertarians and National Conservatives Be Friends?
NatCon Oz – Dr Alan Moran – Can subsidies help Australians make more babies?
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NatConOz Interview – Jason Richwine, Centre for Immigration Studies: An Update on Deportations and other Immigration Policy Developments in the USA
NatConOz Interview: Dr Stephen McInerney – Australian identity in a time of multiculturalism and poetry in the TikTok Age
NatConOz Interview: Fleur Meston – Westminster Bubble Update and the Future of British Conservatism
NatConOz Interview: Mark Leach, Co-Founder of “Never Again is Now”
Dr Frank Salter – “Multiculturalism, Civic Nationalism, and Ethno-nationalism”
Dr Jamie Q Roberts – Author of “The Intellectual Dark Web: A History (And Possible Future)
Dr Bob Birrell, Leading Demographer: “The True State of Australia’s Immigration Disaster”
Tanveer Ahmed – Psychiatrist/Author – “The Bankstown Hospital Nurses and Antisemitism in Australia”
NatConOz: Bob Carr, Writer/Premier/Foreign Minister: “Trump, Australia, and Rethinking the Right”
NatConOz: Dr Philippa Martyr – “The Future of The Catholic Church in Australia and Why It Matters”
NatConOz Interview: Dr Jim Allan – “Should Canada Remain An Independent Country?”
NatConOz Interview: George Christensen – The Serious Threats to Free Speech in Australia
NatConOz Interview – Moira Deeming – The Fight Against Gender Ideology Extremism in Australia
NatCon Oz – “Bookish and Based” Catch Up – United States President Inauguration Day Special
NatConOz Interview – Ian Fletcher – What Trump 2.0 Trade and Industrial Policy Should Look Like
NatConOz Interview – Aimee Terese – Aussie Queen of Online New Right
NatConOz Interview – Avik Roy – Prominent American Critic of National Conservatism
Interview with Andrew Hale – Senior Policy Analyst (Trade), Heritage Foundation – What will Trump 2.0 trade policies mean for Australia?
Interview with Simon Hankinson, Senior Research Fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at Heritage Foundation
NatCon Oz – “Bookish and Based” Catch Up – End of Year Wrap Up
Interview with Dr Gordon Menzies – Is Liberalism a Fundamentalist Ideology?
NatCon Oz Interview: Gregory R Copley – Long Time Washington DC-based Australian Strategic Analyst
NatCon Oz – Interview with Gray Connolly – Barrister, National Security Thinker, Conservative
NatCon Oz – Interview Virginia Tapscott – Columnist for The Australian – How Did We Get Family Policy So Wrong?
Jordan Knight on Spectator TV Discussing Immigration Policy
NatCon Oz – Dr Daniel Pitt – Post-Liberalism and the Future of Conservatism
NatCon Oz – Tim Andrews – Americans for Tax Reform – The Post Trump Victory View from Washington DC
NatCon Oz – “Bookish and Based” Catch Up – United States Post Election Special!
NatCon Oz – John Ruddick – Can Libertarians and National Conservatives Be Friends?
NatCon Oz – Dr Alan Moran – Can subsidies help Australians make more babies?
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Jordan Knight - Director
Jordan is the founder of Migration Watch Australia www.migrationwatchaustralia.com.au and adviser to Independent NSW MP Rod Roberts. He previously worked in advertising and start-ups. He regularly writes for The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph.
Anthony Cappello – Director
Anthony Cappello is the founder and executive director of Connor Court Publishing, Australia’s largest independent publisher of conservative and centre-right books.
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Trade
How Australian “Normiecons” Still Don’t Get The New Right
Every morning, I wake up and scan hopefully the opinion pages of The Australian for any sign of a sympathetic or proper understanding of the ‘new right’ – the dynamic intellectual movement that powered Trump to the White House and is upending governments across...
Lessons from the New American Right
Australian centre-right politicians are very fond of quoting Winston Churchill. One of the last pieces of advice that great wartime leader gave before finally stepping down was that: ‘We must never get out of step with the Americans – never.’ Today, it is striking how...
After Jim Chambers’ Trip to Beijing, Our China Trade Policy Remains on Autopilot
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers flew back from Beijing last weekend keen to emphasise that our trade relationship with China has been, to use the overused buzzword of this government, ‘stabilised’. Now a lack of turbulence is admittedly what you want as you settle...
Immigration
The Problem With The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship and the Wine and Cheeseboard Right
What should be the most important issue of the 2025 federal election in Australia? Nuclear power? Whacking woke? The gender wars? Taxes and costs of living? Some new or existing foreign conflict in Europe, the Middle East, or Asia? All worthy topics of discussion, no...
Why the centre right in Australia shouldn’t have a “black armband view of history” when it comes to Federation.
The Australia Day debating season has now finally, mercifully, come to an end for another year. What is clear is that the political right and left in this country have very different perspectives about how 26th January, 1788 – the date a new British colony was...
We’re losing our streets – Nobody knows what to do about Hezbollah supporters in Australia
Around the time of the Cronulla riots, the population of residents born in the Middle East numbered around 193,633. As of 2021, the MENA (Middle East, North African) population numbers around 800,000. Islam today is the second fastest growing religion in the country,...
Foreign Policy
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...
Don’t Mention the Chinese Elephant in the Room
Watching many in Australia’s commercial elite talk about China is increasingly like watching mainland Chinese television. Occasionally, informative things are said, but it is also always important to keep in mind the topics that are not discussed and the issues not...
Culture
It’s Time Business Woke Up to Itself
Several years back I happened to meet author James Bartholomew, the person who can legitimately claim to have coined the phrase, “virtue signalling”. If social media had been around then, I guess I would have felt pressure to post some cheesy photo and say how...
Living in Harmony A Mixed Blessing
AUSTRALIA officially celebrates Harmony Day on March 21, but I see festivities kicked off at least a month ago. Who knows? One day we may, like China, end up celebrating Harmony Day all year round. Beijing is big on the idea of harmony. "Harmonious Society" is perhaps...
We can not longer tolerate what ails us, Nor it’s remedy
Earlier in my career, in a very different world, I lived in China. It was possible, then, to stand on Tian’anmen Square one day and on Bondi Beach the next. I often marvelled at how these two places could exist on the same planet. Soon after disembarking from my...