Scott Hargreaves and Dr Chris Berg each week discuss the deeper issues in Australian politics
Latest episodes
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 93: Looking Forward: Endgame
After two years on air that’s a wrap for the IPA’s Looking Forward Podcast, as least as a weekly panel show. The biggest issues over the journey have been Trump and the populist in…
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58 min
Thanks Ron, Great Party!
Will history’s verdict be that Trump trashed the legacy of Reagan - as some of his supporters delightedly claim - or that there are stronger continuities between the two, sharing r…
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54 min
The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 91: Mysterious Measures to Decolonise Museums
All through the western world Museum Directors have set themselves the task of “decolonising” their collections and exhibits, but what could this become and what does it mean anywa…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 89: The Reckoning of Our Afghan War
The allegations of serious war crimes by Australian special forces contained within the Brereton Inquiry report mean some change is necessary even as justice takes its course. But…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 89: Brutal Lockdowns Redux: SA Cut
Now it’s South Australia's turn for lockdown hell for at least six days, and Daniel Wild joins the panel live from Adelaide to report on the chaotic decision making behind the Gove…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 88: Just Another High Vis Election
It's a global High Vis vest frenzy, because whether or not he’s President going forward the global legacy of Trump is a realignment of politics, with heartland conservatives switch…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 87: Trumpism in a Post Trump Era
There’s some grieving from Gideon on the Podcast as indications are that Joe Biden will be sworn in as President, though his fabled ‘blue wave’ failed to eventuate. Trump confounde…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 86: Australia's Coronavirus Endgame
Scott Morrison’s mid-year plan for a COVIDSafe economy is back on track having been derailed by Victorian bungling, but with vaccines uncertain and international borders closed, wh…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 85: Global Progressives Unhinged By Jacindavirus (ARDERN 20)
Gideon Rozner joins the panel to compare world leaders’ various responses to coronavirus and how this links to politically polarised ideals of “leadership”. If leadership for progr…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 84: The Belated Collapse of Lockdown's Justifications
We may look back on this as the week when the global wave of coronavirus lockdown hysteria recedes, as more sensible voices and experts come to the fore, including a key WHO advise…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 83: Trump's COVID: Halo or Catastrophe?
Trump has tested positive for COVID-19 less than one month before the US election. What will this mean for the politics surrounding the upcoming election and could this revelation…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 82: Pollies' Prison Prospects: Stunning Own Goal
Victoria has been electrified by the prospect that politicians and public servants from the Premier down could be charged and even jailed for deaths attributable to the Hotel Quara…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 81: RBG & After, Plus: Who's Replacing Nettle?
This week saw the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg and immediate controversy about who will replace her on the United States’ Supreme Court, as the Democrats invent reasons to stall th…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 80: Tear Down That Wall
There are hard borders with no sign of let up across Australia, as State Premiers spuriously justify all decisions as being on the basis of medical advice while enjoying the populi…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 79: Victorians Have Made Their Bed
The Deputy CMO says to Victorians "make your bed", but they're fraying at the edges as their Premier loses credibility for refusing to admit he is pursuing a virus eradication stra…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 78: Hello? My BRI’s Stopped Working
The Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has announced new legislation to ensure agreement the States, councils and universities have with foreign governments are consistent with Austra…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 77: COVID19 At The Crossroads
After six months of COVID19 in Australia the panel discusses whether it’s time to say this is the new normal, and that we can neither wait for a vaccine nor indefinitely extend eme…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 76: The Golden Age of Libertarian Scepticism
On this special episode of the IPA’s Looking Forward, co-host Chris Berg interviews Russ Roberts from the Hoover Institution, known to most as the long-standing host of Econtalk, a…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 75: Just the Ticket for Biden?
Joe Biden has decided Kamala Harris is to be his pick as vice president based on the fact she is an African-American woman. Should identity politics have a place in the presidentia…
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 74: Mission Accomplished!
Victoria’s Premier Daniel Andrews is seemingly delighted to have brought Victoria to an unprecedented standstill as he pursues eradication of the runaway coronavirus. But what will…