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: 17 DECEMBER, 2025

Andrew Kemp ranking our best & worst PMs by term: "It's Whack-a-Mole"

On this week’s Afternoon Light Georgina Downer speaks with Andrew Kemp, who has recently ranked Australian Prime Ministers by the best and worst terms of government we have experienced. A fun and enlightening exercise that highlights how good governance can be judged not merely on the policy programs for which governments are elected, but ultimately on rising to the unique & unforeseeable challenges of the day.

11 Mar, 2026

Christina Twomey on Australia's treatment of our returned WW2 POWs: "Suffered on behalf of the nation"

4 Mar, 2026

Hilary Silbert on Australia's first female parliamentarian Edith Cowan: "You will not get back"

25 Feb, 2026

Alexander Downer & Tony Parkison on the life & times of Australia's longest serving Foreign Minister: "We took a view"

18 Feb, 2026

Tony Abbott on his new History of Australia: "A bad history does not produce a good present"

11 Feb, 2026

Peter Kurti on maintaining national unity amidst Australia's growing pluralism: "Multiculturalism works when it's Civic Anchored"

4 Feb, 2026

Summer Series 2025-6 Part 7: Paul Brown, Andrew Kemp, & Lucas McLennan

28 Jan, 2026

Summer Series 2025-6 Part 6: Michael de Percy, Greg Melleuish, & Peter Kurti

21 Jan, 2026

Summer Series 2025-6 Part 5: Dan Brettig, Teesta Prakash, Stewart Gill, & Tim Rowse

14 Jan, 2026

Summer Series 2025-6 Part 4: Selwyn Cornish, John Hawkins, Mark Lunney, & Eliezer Rubenstein Sturgess

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