#23 After Oasis: How might music help build a better kind of nation?
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.
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#22 Reflections from Oxford
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.
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#21 Politics as a Vocation with Andrew Hastie MP
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.
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#20 What would a higher form of reconciliation look like?
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?
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#19 After the Election: Is there a future for Australian Conservatism?
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 Grant and Jack Jacobs as they explore the Wiradjuri philosophy of Yindyamarra and how it might guide us through the challenges facing nation-building and democracy in Australia and around the world.
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