Afternoon Light is the podcast of the Robert Menzies Institute. You can listen to individual episodes by clicking on the links below, or subscribe to Afternoon Light using your favourite podcast app.
Saul Eslake, ‘A distinctive part of life in Australia’ The Declining Dream of Homeownership
David W. Cameron, ‘We punched well above our weight’ Australians in the Battle of Kapyong, Korea
Peter Brune, ‘Totally Bipartisan’ How post-war immigration transformed Australia
Stephen Dando-Collins, ‘He Was Unrelenting’ The Astonishing Life of Sir Henry Parkes
Lauren Samuelsson, ‘We don’t have a cuisine, but we do have a food culture’ The history of what Aussies eat
Peter Job, ‘Shrewdly Compromised’ Australia’s Brutal Sell-out of East Timor
Jennifer Clark, ‘There’s Sputnik, what’s your answer?’ Revolutionising Australian science education
Ross McMullin, ‘Yes Mr. Watson’ Our First Labor PM
William Coleman, ‘Australia’s Sham Federation’ The flawed process which produced our Commonwealth
Frank Bongiorno, ‘A vision of the good society’ The Dreamers & Schemers of Australian political history
Ryan Cropp, ‘The world that he was renouncing’ Donald Horne & the Lucky Country
Summer Series 2023-4 Part 6: Stephen Wilks, Lyndon Megarrity & Gregory Melleuish
Summer Series 2023-4 Part 5: David Furse-Roberts, Damien Freeman, Andrew Bragg & Julian Leeser
Summer Series 2023-4 Part 4: Andrew Norton, Ted Ling & Michael de Percy
Summer Series 2023-4 Part 3: Bob Bowker, Sean Jacobs & Elizabeth Buchanan
Summer Series 2023-4 Part 2: David Lee, Selwyn Cornish, & Paul Brown
Summer Series 2023-4 Part 1: Paul Kelly, Anne Henderson, & Paul Strangio
David Clune, ‘Offered the people economic rainbows’ Jack Lang
Ross Walker, ‘But you’re Prime Minister Harold’ Holt before Cheviot
