Current Events
Fed up with Coalition and Labor Budget lies? So are we
Our first television advertisement, screening on Sky. Every time both Coalition and Labor tell us they’ll balance the Budget or deliver us a surplus, they lie. Australia’s debt is growing. If you’re sick of lying liars and the lies they
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Leyonhjelm reveals the truth about tobacco costings
Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm today called on both major parties to stop picking on smokers, after revealing his own costings provided by the Parliamentary Budget Office. The Liberal Democrats vehemently oppose tax hikes on smoking, and have supported the
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Double dissolution: Crossbench ‘clearance’ will actually make it grow
When the politicians convene in Canberra in the depths of winter later this year, the headlines will read “the more things change, the more they stay the same”. Prime Minister Turnbull will flash a forced smile as he walks past
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The Port Arthur gun ban hasn’t saved lives
AUSTRALIANS may pride themselves on “telling it like it is”, but when it comes to gun laws, straight-shooting all too often takes a back seat to a determined effort at silencing debate. Twenty years ago a deranged individual murdered 35
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Stop treating South Australia like a charity case
POLITICIANS must believe that South Australians care less about national security than getting handouts for SA shipbuilders. Why else would politicians from the Coalition, Labor, the Greens and Nick Xenophon (who mostly votes with the Greens anyway) have all pushed
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Everyone needs a haircut: Senator Leyonhjelm’s alternative budget
This year’s budget provides an opportunity to return Australia to a path of fiscal responsibility. Rather than promising everyone some candy, the government needs to win back its credibility by demonstrating a clear plan to return the budget to surplus
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Leyonhjelm condemns major parties’ Orwellian “Newspeak”
Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm has condemned both the Government and Opposition for misleading people with
Read MoreMalcolm’s tax mistake was asking the State premiers
A strange thing happened the other week. The Prime Minister had a good idea, and then
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39 hours in the Senate
Last Thursday in the Senate, in a moment of tiredness, I admitted I’d had an interesting
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Privatise hospitals, abolish health bureaucrats, and give patients the cash
Imagine if a libertarian like me had his way with health policy and nobody died. It
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