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, i ...