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Senator Leyonhjelm is interviewed on The 7:30 Report
Senator Leyonhjelm talks about the 2016 Census, and highlights an even greater invasion of your privacy. The mandatory retention of your metadata.
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Senator Leyonhjelm on the new Senate | Sky News 4 Aug 16
The newly re-elected NSW Senator David Leyonhjelm talking to Laura Jayes on Sky News about the new Senate and what it means for Australia.
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Don’t price our kids out of work
Youth unemployment is one of the great tragedies of our time. Young people emerge from study in the expectation of becoming self-reliant, only to have their aspirations thwarted and face continuing reliance on others. There is obviously a cost to
Read MoreReserve Bank of Australia must be made more accountable
During the Global Financial Crisis there was a splash of taxpayer’s funds bigger than school halls, pink batts and $900 cheques combined. But it was a cash splash that no one knows about, because it was done by a part
Read MoreElection 2016: minor parties were a major miss for the media
A strange thing happened during the election campaign. My phone stopped ringing. For some reason, many of the political journalists who have been in regular contact with me over the past two years decided my opinion would not be required
Read MorePolitical Correctness featured on the ABC editorial
This video on Political Correctness featured on the ABC during the 2016 election campaign. The first line in our national anthem says that Australians are free, but how free are we? Political correctness is out of control, but the Liberal
Read MoreIt’s not Super Reform, It’s a Tax Grab
The Liberals have a spending problem. Raising taxes does not solve such a problem, but the latest attack on super is just that – a tax grab. It will hurt conscientious savers, the innocent who inherit super balances, and the
Read MoreDon’t let Mal and Bill get their grubby paws on your Super
Those who are responsible and save for their retirement – reducing the burden on the rest of us – should be thanked, not robbed blind to cover the major parties’ reckless spending.
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Leyonhjelm stripping Coalition’s base on budget and super
The Liberal Democrats have increased advertising exposing the major parties’ budget lies, despite hypocritical complaints from the Coalition, and are opening a new front on the Coalition by attacking their backflip on superannuation taxes. As a result, the steady flow
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What the Senate Nanny State Inquiry taught me about public health lobbyists
The Senate nanny state inquiry, which I chaired, has ended due to the election. Its seven short reports, available on the Parliament House website, make sobering and even disturbing reading. Throughout the inquiry – during public hearings and in submissions
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