Yindyamarra

Join Stan and Jack as they speak with Prof. Mark Evans about his work on the recent Democratic Audit of Australia. The importance of localised democracy stretches across their discussions of: nation-building in Afghanistan in the wake of American withdrawal; the joint crises of democracy in Europe and in America; the health, and political challenges of Australian democracy; the fut

Join Jack and Stan as they discuss the ramifications of the Sam Kerr trial, William Faulkner and his book Requiem for a Nun, narratives of victimhood and power, and what it might take to search for a common language capable of speaking to each other in our complexities

Join Stan and Jack as they speak with Patrick Dunleavy, Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at LSE, about his work, alongside Prof. Mark Evans, on their recent democratic audit of Australia. How do Australia's democratic safeguards compare with those of the United Kingdom and United States? What are we to make of the rise of populism, in the midst of the cultu

Join Stan and Jack as they discuss their responses to January 26, Australia Day. The story of Australia, Stan thinks, is a story of us, one that cannot be weaponised nor claimed. This is a conversation about the soft intimacy of small spaces, about how showing gratitude for each other – and seeking out the other – might be the only ways to hold a space for love itself in the fa

Join Jack and Stan on the last day of 2024 as they discuss Stan's new book, Murriyang (Bundyi, December 2024), reflect on their yearly ritual reading John Williams's Stoner, and on what it means to live a life attentive to life's quiet graces.

“It is not an easy thing to believe in this bleeding world, that love is the trajectory that we’re on, that love is calling us home.” Yet love is what Elizabeth Oldfield, Host of the Sacred Podcast, and former director of the Theos think-tank, has tried to build her world on. Join Jack and Stan as they speak with Elizabeth about her new book, Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul

Jack and Stan speak with Ethan Taylor, a Warumungu man and a political theory student at Oxford, asking big questions about First Nations justice and liberal reform. How can liberalism, in the wake of the Voice’s defeat, be made to work better for First Nations people and all Australians? Can liberalism, on its own, sustain us, or must our roots be elsewhere – in society, the s

This panel discussion co-hosted by Yindyamarra Nguluway at Charles Sturt University and the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, focused on the key issues informing this week’s referendum. What would make cynics say ‘Yes’? Will the Voice strengthen Australian democracy? What would the implications of a failed referendum be for First Nations peoples, and wider prosp

Join Jack as he speaks with Michelle Grattan, Chief Political Correspondent at The Conversation, Professor Mark Evans, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Charles Sturt, Professor Dominic O’Sullivan, Professor in Political Science at Charles Sturt and James Blackwell, Research Fellow in Indigenous Diplomacy at the ANU and a proud Wiradjuri man to discuss “Where we are at with

Join Stan and Jack in conversation before a live audience, beneath the night sky and by the fire in Canberra. They launch and discuss Stan’s new book, The Queen is Dead (HarperCollins).