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Senator Leyonhjelm on political donations and transparency
Restricting political donations makes next to no difference in cleaning up politics. What we need is full transparency.
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Leyonhjelm urges ACCC to investigate the Dairy Poll
Liberal Democrats Senator Leyonhjelm says the recently announced Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) inquiry into the national dairy industry needs to investigate whether a regular Dairy Poll should be reinstated. In late 2015, the requirement for Dairy Australia to convene
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Leyonhjelm challenges $6 Million Man to refund taxpayers
Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm says the Greens are hypocrites for accepting money from taxpayers and million dollar donations from private donors while calling for an end to big money politics. “The Greens pocketed more than $6.3 million from taxpayers
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Senator Leyonhelm’s interview on JoyFM about 18C
The interviewer seems to confuse free speech with discrimination. Senator Leyonhjelm makes the argument that the law should have no bearing on how someone feels.
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How to fix up the government’s red ink-drenched balance sheet
The Commonwealth government was $70 billion in the black at the end of the Howard era. It is now $265 billion in the red, equivalent to $11,000 for every single Australian. And as each new budget brings a deficit, we
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Crossbench gets cross about Govt failure to respond to report
Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm has won the Senate’s unanimous support for a motion calling on the Government to respond to the Senate Select Committee report on Wind Turbines. The motion is remarkable because it was sponsored by every crossbencher
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