Fire at Will

Mick Ryan is a retired Major-General in the Australian Army. His decorated 35 year military career included deployments to East Timor, Iraq, and southern Afghanistan, as well as a stint as a strategist on the United States Joint Staff in the Pentagon. This experience, in conjunction with an impressive academic resume, has earnt him a reputation as one of Australia’s finest military minds.His new book, ‘White Sun War’, is an engrossing imagining of a future conflict between China and the US over Taiwan. In this conversation with host Will Kingston, Mick discusses what that conflict may look like.Follow Australiana on social media here.Subscribe to The Spectator Australia here.Buy White Sun War here.

Daisy Cousens is one of the most insightful and entertaining voices in Australian political and social commentary. She’s mastered legacy media via contributions to Sky News, Q&A and The Spectator Australia, but it’s her burgeoning reputation as a YouTuber that has catapulted her to global attention. Over 215 thousand people now subscribe to her channel.In this episode, Daisy and host Will Kingston go on an intrepid adventure into the culture wars and Australian and American politics.Follow Australiana on social media here.Subscribe to The Spectator Australia here.Subscribe to Daisy’s YouTube channel here.

Warren Mundine grew up in a poor Aboriginal family in the 1950’s and rose to become the National President of the Australian Labor Party, an advisor to five Prime Ministers, a successful businessman and a tireless advocate for indigenous Australians.In this conversation with host Will Kingston, he discusses why he is opposing the Voice, and outlines some practical things we can do instead to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians.Follow Australiana on social media here.Subscribe to The Spectator Australia here.Note: We had some minor issues with sound quality on Warren's side. Stick with it. It's worth it.

Cameron Murray is an Australian author and economist, who specialises in property markets, environmental economics and corruption. His latest book is titled ‘Rigged: How Networks of Powerful Mates Rip off Everyday Australians.’It’s an extraordinary and shocking story of how boys clubs and backroom deals have come to dominate business and government in Australia, robbing ordinary Australians of half of their wealth.Follow Australiana on social media here.Subscribe to The Spectator Australia here.Buy 'Rigged' here.Subscribe to Cameron's Substack here.Follow Cameron on Twitter here.

Kellie-Jay Keen (AKA Posie Parker) is an activist for sex-based rights. She is the founder of Standing For Women, a global women’s rights campaign group, and the creator of the action Women Stand Up! Her recent tour of Australia and New Zealand made global headlines. She was rushed by Lidia Thorpe in Hobart, accused of being a Nazi sympathiser in Melbourne, and assaulted in Auckland in scenes that shocked the world. In this conversation with host Will Kingston, she's a British mum of four leading a global movement on behalf of women everywhere.Follow Australiana on social media here.Subscribe to The Spectator Australia here.Check out the STANDING FOR WOMEN website here.Follow Kellie-Jay on Twitter here.

Almost every big company has embraced woke policies and attitudes over the last five years, despite little evidence they improve business performance. Host Will Kingston explores this paradox with American economist and management thought leader, Peter Klein. In 2022, Peter made headlines in business sections the world over for a paper he co-authored, titled ‘Why Do Companies Go Woke?’Follow Australiana on social media here.Subscribe to The Spectator Australia here.Read 'Why Do Companies Go Woke?' here.Buy 'Why Managers Matter' here.

Update: Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations.Konstantin Kisin is a Russian-British comedian, podcaster and writer. His speech earlier this year to the Oxford Union on 'whether woke culture has gone too far' (watch) established him as one of the most influential social commentators in the world today. Each week he co-hosts the wildly successful Triggernometry podcast with another friend of Australiana, Francis Foster.In this wide-ranging conversation, host Will Kingston and Konstantin discuss Ukraine, free speech, the decline of western culture and the rise of activist journalism.Follow Will Kingston and Fire at Will on social media here.Subscribe to The Spectator Australia here.Buy 'An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West' here.Join the Triggernometry community here.

Update: Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations.We now live in an age where words are violence. Where morality is assessed in Silicon Valley boardrooms instead of local communities. Where free speech is encumbered with so many legislative ifs and buts that it’s rapidly losing meaning. The great tragedy is it feels like there are less and less people willing to stand up for a belief that previous generations fought and died for – the right to think and say what we believe. Host Will Kingston is joined by legal theorist Josh Krook to discuss how free speech in Australia is eroding before our eyes.Follow Will Kingston and Fire at Will on social media here.Subscribe to The Spectator Australia here.Subscribe to Josh’s blog here.Note: We had some minor sound quality issues arising from Josh calling from the UK. Stick with it. It's worth it.

Update: Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations.In last week’s episode host Will Kingston chatted to firebrand conservative commentator Sydney Watson, whose funny and fearless culture war observations have made her a Youtube sensation the world over. It turns out both host and guest had an aversion to brevity.This is Part II of Australiana in conversation with Sydney Watson. In this episode Will and Sydney cover modern feminism, race relations and woke celebrities.Follow Will Kingston and Fire at Will on social media here.Subscribe to The Spectator Australia here.Follow Sydney on Twitter, Youtube and Instagram.

Update: Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations.Sydney Watson is not a quiet Australian, although she shares their frustrations. On the contrary she’s a very loud Australian. Her army of over one million social media followers come to her for funny and fearless culture war observations.In this first episode of a two-part series, host Will Kingston and Sydney discuss the body positivity movement, trans conversion therapy and the rise of identity politics within companies.Follow Will Kingston and Fire at Will on social media here.Subscribe to The Spectator Australia here.Follow Sydney on Twitter and Youtube.