Afternoon Light Podcast

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.

FEATURED PODCAST: 9 APRIL, 2025

Grantlee Kieza on Matthew Flinders & the Naming of Australia: "The vast majority of Australians wouldn't know that"

On Afternoon Light #193 Georgina Downer speaks with Grantlee Kieza to tell the remarkable story of Matthew Flinders. The mariner responsible for proving that Australia was an island continent and the adoption of its name, who lived a life of adventure, discovery, and scientific endeavour with his iconic cat Trim.

30 Jul, 2025

Kit Kowol on Chamberlain, Churchill & the British Conservative Party during WW2: "There were other futures available"

23 Jul, 2025

Wendy Michaels on NSW's first female MP Millicent Preston Stanley: "How Dare She"

16 Jul, 2025

Greg Melleuish on the Evolution of Political Terms: "That's yesterday's liberalism, therefore it's conservatism"

9 Jul, 2025

David Hunt on enlivening Australian history with fact-based entertainment: "History with humour"

1 Jul, 2025

Michael Samaras on Jim McNeill & the Aussies who fought Fascism in Spain: "Soldiers of Conscience"

25 Jun, 2025

David Headon on our first PM Edmund Barton: "The Iscariots of history"

17 Jun, 2025

Sir Peter Cosgrove on Vietnam, his experience in the ADF & Australia's current defence concerns: "underscore and capitalise DETERRANT"

11 Jun, 2025

Katti Williams on the design process that produced Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance: "Surrogate Tombs"

4 Jun, 2025

David Day on Foundational Labor PM Andrew Fisher: "To the last man and the last shilling"

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