My guest today is Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History and Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas at the University of Canberra and one of Australia's most well-known historians.

Today we discuss:

- The recent articles in Australian Historical Studies Journal to which he contributed concerning the so-called "Crisis of The Australian Right" and what parallels exist in our history to what is occurring now

- How he understands the terms "left" and "right", "liberal" and "conservative" and how various parties in the the past have used these terms

- Whether any member of pre-Whitlam ALP would be welcome in Albanese's cabinet and if there is even any common link between the party of old and today

- Whether politicians from the Federation age and before the age of open borders liberalism have something to teach ...