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‘I have smoked dope and I did inhale: that was the point’
Nimbin is the home of Australia’s cannabis culture, ‘high’ in the hills above Lismore in the NSW Northern Rivers. On the first weekend in May 2015, some 10,000 of the nation’s medical, industrial, and recreational cannabis users and their supporters
Read MoreSenate speech: Australia’s licenced firearms owners are angry
I lead the Liberal Democrats, the only party in this place that without exception stands up for shooters.
Read MoreTaking on the anti-GMO Luddites
‘Every great advance in civilisation has been denounced as unnatural. This might explain why the Luddites of today call themselves environmentalists.’
Read MorePETA and Foamie the Fake Sheep
‘Today, I’m here to tell you a story about Foamie the Sheep’
Read MoreGive Nuclear a Chance
Speech in support of Senator Day’s Bill to make nuclear power generation legal in Australia
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No, you can’t ‘bomb things better’
Thousands of miles from here a backward, misogynist, psychotic group of Sunni Muslims is terrorising all within their reach. Quite rightly, the Australian government has not committed a single soldier to counter this evil. I speak of Boko Haram in
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Leyonhjelm forces Government to roll over on Adler ban
Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm has had a major win for shooters in the Australian Senate today. Shooters should be allowed access to the Adler A110 lever action shotgun in 12 months’ time, after Senator Leyonhjelm forced the Abbott Government
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When freedom gets nailed on the Cross
We should all be disgusted about what is happening in Kings Cross these days. I’m not talking about drunken louts. Being shocked by people behaving badly in Kings Cross is like being shocked at Range Rovers in Mosman or sheep
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Australia’s shark-punching outlaw spirit is losing its battle with the nanny state
By Christopher Snowdon, The Spectator (UK): Last September, a 20-year-old man was retrieving a goose he had shot in Australia’s Northern Territory when a crocodile dragged him by his right arm into some wetlands with a view to eating him. Undaunted,
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