Join Stan and Jack as they reflect on Stan's latest themes in his Simone Weil Lectures at ACU and his Richard Johnson Lecture at the Centre for Public Christianity. 

Join Stan and Jack as they reflect on Oasis's reunion, Stan's experience of the historic concert in England, the relationship of music to the soul of a nation, and the challenges and dangers of  nationalism in the modern world.   Apologies for some feed disruption on Stan's microphone during recording! 

Join Stan and Jack as they reflect on Stan's latest trip to England as it has shaped his thinking about his novel, the life of Old England, and the vocation of the writer.

Join Stan and Jack as they speak with Andrew Hastie MP—Federal Liberal Member for Canning and Shadow Minister for Home Affairs—about his vocation for politics, how his experiences in Afghanistan and in Parliament have shaped his Burkean outlook, and what a renewed form of Australian political thought might look like, explored from their mutually respectful yet differing perspectives.

Join Stan and Jack, as they reflect on Stan's Federation University Annual Reconciliation Lecture. How well do words like Treaty, Reconciliation, Sovereignty, and Decolonisation still serve us? Or need we find a different way of speaking about reconciliation? What would that sound like and where would we begin?

Join Stan and Jack as they reflect on the 2025 Australian Federal election results, what they mean for the future of Australian social democracy and conservatism, and what makes Australian traditions truly unique.

Join Stan and Jack as they take a walking tour around Magdalen College, reflecting on the life and thought of C. S. Lewis at Oxford, the role of magic and enchantment in our lives, and as they take (a windy) stop to watch some Deer go about their way of life!

Join Stan and Jack as they speak (this time, in person!) about Stan’s journey to Oxford to write a new novel. They discuss their plans for Stan's stay, his initial thoughts on creative writing, what makes England a beautiful place to live and think, but also some of the challenges posed to England's identity by globalisation, insecurity, and a crumbling global order. (Please excuse the sound quality and background sounds—we excitedly decided to record this outside on a sunny day at Jack’s home in Oxford, oblivious to the busy street outside).

Join Stan and Jack as they speak with Scott Stephens about decency, beauty, and what it means to encounter the other through experiment and the search for self-knowledge in the modern age. Scott will be the speaker for the 2026 Yindyamarra Oration, “On the Beauty of Decency.”

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 future and prospects for a solidarity-focused Left in building new democratic futures; and why the hope for democracy must ultimately lie in energising communities to undertake localised solutions.

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 cultural wars? What do the new threats to democracy look like from the view of 1989? We explore all these questions and more.    Australia's democratic audit can be accessed here: https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.ada/ 

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 face of darker history.  

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 in Turbulent Times, and what it means to live generously, and fully, with others, in a world evermore disillusioned and divided.  

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 sacred, or somewhere else altogether? Join us for this conversation across the generations.

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 prospects of democratic reform? To help us with these complex questions Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research Mark Evans facilitated a long conversation with Michelle Grattan (Chief Political Correspondent at The Conversation), Professor Sue Green (Wiradyuri woman and Professoral Fellow at the Yindyamarra Nguluway Initiative), James Blackwell (Research Fellow in Indigenous Diplomacy, at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and a proud Wiradjuri man), Professor Kim Rubenstein (Australian legal scholar, legal practitioner, and Professor in the Faculty of Business Government and Law at the University of Canberra), and Paul House (senior Ngambri-Ngunnawal custodian of the Canberra region with Wiradjuri, Walgalu and Ngunnawal ancestry and Senior Community Engagement Officer, Office of the Vice-President, First Nations Portfolio, ANU).

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 the campaign for enshrining an Indigenous Voice to Parliament within the Constitution.”

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). 

Join Stan and Jack as they speak with Geoff Broughton, Associate Professor in Christian and Practical Theology about lament, the Church, and what a true Australian theology might mean and demand of us.