Interview with academic Dr John Lee, senior consultant for the US Dept of Defense and former national security adviser to Australian Government.

Among other things we cover:

1. Australian treasurer Jim Chalmers upcoming trip to Beijing

2. What Australia's trade and investment relationship should be like with China

3. Ideology v culture in foreign policy

Regular catch up on contemporary issues between Jordan Knight, founder of Migration Watch Australia and Dan Ryan, Executive Director of The National Conservative Institute of Australia.

My guest today is John Roskam who is the the former long-time executive director and now senior fellow of the Institute for Public Affairs (IPA), a well-known centre-right think tank based in Melbourne, Australia. He writes a regular column for the Australian Financial Review, which he has done for over 20 years.

In this episode we discuss:

• How the philosophy of the Institute of Public Affairs has changed over the years and why it originally supported tariffs among other things
• His views on Australia's Federation and the "Australian Settlement" and whether the criticism from liberal free market types is justified
• Why he thinks the "Washington Consensus" has changed and what this means for the Canberra bipartisan consensus and how it might need to change going forward.
• His current views on foreign policy, immigration, trade and much, much more.