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Senator-elect David Leyonhjelm calls for ‘front door’ asylum-seeker charge
LIBERAL Democratic Senator David Leyonhjelm has proposed a radical plan to charge asylum-seekers $50,000 to come to Australia “through the front door”.
Read MoreLDP Budget 2014 in the Australian Financial Review.
David Leyonhjelm The Coalition government will release its first budget on Tuesday which will set the tone for the rest of the time in office. There is speculation that the government will make some difficult decisions to get the budget
Read MoreWrong way CCA, go back
AGRIBUZZ WITH DAVID LEYONHJELM THE Cattle Council of Australia is currently inviting comments on a verification system for sustainable beef which will comprise the basis for certification under the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef. There are quite a number of
Read MoreTime to tell the truth about organics
IS IT OK to gloat? After all, it’s not every day we see those trying to turn back the clock on modern agriculture so resoundingly defeated. There are plenty of them too, from the multinational Luddite organisation Greenpeace to the
Read MoreMarijuana is just good medicine
Few still believe the old myth that smoking marijuana leads to a spiral of drug dependence and dissipation. Some claim prolonged use can adversely affect the mental health of certain individuals, and it certainly has the potential to make driving
Read MoreLibertarianism gets a loudspeaker in David Leyonhjelm
At 1pm every Thursday, David Leyonhjelm and his wife, Amanda, set off from their home in Sydney’s inner west on a five-hour drive west to their farm in the hilly, rocky terrain of Hargreaves, near Mudgee in NSW. The 465-hectare
Read MoreAssisted suicide: free people own their own lives
There is no better indication of individual freedom than the ability to decide what to do with our own body. If the law prevents us from making free choices about it then we are not really free at all; our
Read MoreReduce minimum wages and let the people work
Thousands of Australians would love to have paid work. They include those just out of school, just out of jail, age and disability support pensioners, sole parents and refugees. Thousands of Australian businesses would be willing to take a chance
Read MoreUse super for health care: Leyonhjelm
The Liberal Democratic Party’s Senator-elect is proposing Australians draw from their superannuation savings, as well as take up private insurance, to cover health expenses. David Leyonhjelm is proposing to broaden the use of superannuation funds to reduce what he says
Read MoreDavid Leyonhjelm to use ‘blackmail if necessary’
INCOMING crossbench senator David Leyonhjelm says he is willing to “blackmail” the government with his vote, naming tenure for a Sydney shooting range among his top objectives. The NSW Liberal Democratic Party senator-elect, whose six-year term begins on Tuesday, said
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