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Jussie Smollett's conviction for staging a hate crime against himself is a blow not just to his reputation, but the credibility of the woke narrative he tried to exploit, says Nick Cater.Read Nick Cater's column in The Australian: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/the-smollett-case-and-waking-up-to-woke-folly-of-good-v-evil/news-story/d55407d62713b7efb3207c44ed02e7f6Email Nick Cater: watercooler@menziesrc.orgThis is a bonus Watercooler podcast presented by the Menzies Research Centre

Labor's climate policy is so full of holes that it will haunt Albanese until election day as surely as it attached itself to Bill Shorten like some godforsaken seabird in a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem, says Nick Cater.Read Nick Cater's column in The Australian: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/nick-cater Email Nick Cater: watercooler@menziesrc.orgThis is a bonus Watercooler podcast presented by the Menzies Research Centre

Michael Leunig is one of Australia's best-loved cartoonists. His work has appeared in The Age for more than 40 years.  He talks to Nick Cater about the cartoonist's shrinking role as court jester and free thinking spirit in an age when the restrictions around humour are increasingly suffocating and the penalties for dissidents increasingly harsh.Email Nick Cater: watercooler@menziesrc.orgSupport this podcasts by subscribing from just $10 a month at www.menziesrc.org/subscribeBook a seat for the 9th John Howard Lecture with Dr Brendan Nelson in Sydney on December 16, 2021: https://www.menziesrc.org/events

The Religious Discrimination Bill strikes a blow against the intolerable and intolerant religion of social justice.Nick Cater presents his latest column from The Australian.Email Nick Cater: watercooler@menziesrc.orgBook a seat at the 9th John Howard Lecture: www.menziesrc.org/events

The stability of the two-party parliamentary system is challenged by the rise of special interest campaign groups and the rise of minor parties. Yet joining a mainstream party is still the best path for individuals who want to achieve change in the national interest, argues Tim James.Tim James Is Executive General Manager of Menzies Research Centre and has been a member of the Liberal Party since 1993.Nick Cater is Executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre.Email Nick and Tim: watercooler@menziesrc.com

In this column from The Australian, Nick Cater argues that the exclusion of the unvaccinated from public places is an insult to our intelligence. It cannot be justified on public health grounds unless the object is deterrence through humiliation. Email Nick Cater watercooler@menziesrc.orgRead the column:https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/the-tyranny-of-ineptitude-drives-more-to-the-streets/news-story/0e5370a6bd54c95611634dfc92b7038d

Stephen Chavura joins Nick Cater to defuse the loaded language of the anointed, starting with the terms “left” and “right”. As Thomas Sowell observed, while it is relatively easy to define what it means to be “on the left”, the term “right wing” seems little more than a label used by the anointed to condemn those with him they disagree.“Those who oppose the left are said to be on the right — and when they are strongly opposed, or opposed across a broad spectrum of issues, they are said to be on the “far right,” writes Sowell.Dr. Stephen Chavura teaches European and Australian history at Campion College.Nick Cater is Executive Director at the Menzies Research Centre

In this Directors' Cut edition of Watercooler, Nick Cater, John Roskam and Oliver Hartwich discuss the things about which we need a more intelligent conversation.Nick Cater is Executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre.John Roskam is Executive Director of the Institute for Public AffairsDr Oliver Hartwich is Executive Director of the New Zealand InitiativeEmail Nick CaterSupport these podcasts by subscribing to the Menzies Research Centre from just $10 a month

Smart phone technology means the most dangerous place for children is alone in their own bedroom. In this bonus podcast, Nick Cater presents his latest column from The Australian. Read the column Email Nick Cater: watercooler@menziesrc.org

Victoria's Dan Andrews is demonstrating that high-handedness and ham-fistedness are two sides of the same coin. Menzies Research Centre Executive Director Nick Cater presents his weekly column in The Australian as a podcast.Read the columnEmail Nick Cater: watercooler@menziesrc.org