Menzies Research Centre

Robin Batterham, a former Australian chief scientist, joins Nick Cater to discuss common mistakes in interpreting science, the role of experts in government policy and the future of farming.

Novelist Lionel Shriver joins Nick Cater to discuss her new novel 'The Motion of the Body through Space' and how literalism is killing literature

Nick Cater and Brendan O’Neill analyse the mutating crisis that began with COVID-19 and morphed into BLM riots

Robert Menzies believed that humans became more virtuous the closer they came to God, says David Furse-Roberts, whose book Menzies And God, will be published soon.

"The greatest problems in our society today are problems which are essentially moral or spiritual."

Nick Cater talks to John O'Sullivan, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, from Budapest about the pandemic’s effects in Britain, Hungary and the US.

Nick Cater discusses the Chinese Communist Party's culpability for COVID-19 with security adviser John Lee; the performance of the aged-care sector in saving elderly Australians from the virus with Aged and Community Services CEO Pat Sparrow; and the role of human ingenuity in solving environmental problems with Copenhagen Consensus Centre president Bjorn Lomborg.

Nick Cater and Simon Haines on character, resilience and the spiritual side of Robert Menzies.

Judith Sloan assesses the economic impact of the lockdown, former Minerals Council CEO Mitch Hooke explains why mining remains robust and Senator Jim Molan discusses the security implications of China's increasing ostracisation with Watercooler LIVE host Nick Cater.

Never let a good crisis go to waste: Nick Cater is joined by Tom Switzer to discuss the reform dividend that might flow from the Coronavirus crisis