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Senator David Leyonhjelm’s extraordinary Third Reading Speech on the Data Retention Bill: one of his few before a full Senate, and which – unusually – reduced the Chamber to silence. The video also includes footage of the division.
Read More‘My Name is Joe, and I’m a Spendaholic’: Struggle Street and the Budget
Senator Leyonhjelm, by way of a parable, explains what the Budget would look like if ordinary people ran their households in the same way.
Read MoreSenator Leyonhjelm’s Budget Reply Speech, May 2015
‘Borrowing from the future to pay for the present’.
Read MoreSenator Leyonhjelm’s speech on Australia’s new online copyright regime
The Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill is bad law; it protects rights-holders at everyone else’s expense, likely will not achieve its aims, and undermines freedom of speech. And that’s just for starters.
Read MoreSenator Leyonhjelm’s blistering speech on the Pharmacy Guild and corporate welfare
Did you know that even if you are a fully qualified pharmacist, you have to write a letter to the Health Minister to open a pharmacy, and that other pharmacists who already own business in the area get to decide
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Cats are natural libertarians
There is reason to believe that cats are natural libertarians. I’m managed by four of them, and I speak from experience. They are all individuals and refuse to identify with groups. I say managed, not owned, because while my cats
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‘Would the real leader of the opposition please stand up?’
Dear Mr Shorten, I’d like a word. Leading the Opposition, in case you haven’t noticed, is your job. So could you do it, please? I’m not the Opposition Leader, despite the fact that the media keep pretending I am. Don’t
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The government is not your parent: why we need an inquiry into the ‘Nanny State’
The day before my motion to establish an inquiry into the Nanny State passed the Senate, the NSW Parliament enacted legislation that means e-cigarettes will be treated in the same way as tobacco products. The new laws not only restrict
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