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The police are not our masters
A bit over three years ago, in response to a brawl between rival outlaw motorcycle gangs on the Gold Coast, the Queensland government introduced the so-called VLAD law. This gave the police enormous powers to stop, search and detain motorcyclists.
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The rabble that opposes the TPP
What do the Greens, Nick Xenophon Team and One Nation have in common with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump? As it happens, quite a lot, and at the top of the list is their declared hatred of the free trade
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We need a supply-side revolution
When the new Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe testified before a parliamentary committee recently, some Labor politicians who love big spending saw an opportunity. They quizzed him on the global failure of low interest rates to boost “aggregate demand” – the sum
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The government has conned us on super
The government has pulled a swiftie on superannuation. In the May budget it proposed to increase tax on super by nearly $3 billion by 2020. Labor sniped at some design features but offered no real opposition and proposed its own increases
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It’s time to admit the truth about domestic violence
REPORTS identifying domestic violence hot spots in areas of Western Sydney confirm we are not being told the whole story. The officially approved narrative is that domestic violence happens everywhere, from our richest to our poorest households, is getting worse, and it’s
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Leyonhjelm finds huge savings in school funding
Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm has obtained a costing from the Parliamentary Budget Office that spells out how much money could be saved by ending the duplication of federal and state education funding. The costing shows that if the
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Why this ‘angry white male’ took a complaint to the Human Rights Commission
by David Leyonhjelm I recently lodged a complaint under section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act in response to an article written by the journalist Mark Kenny. What he wrote was unlawful under that section. My objective, in lodging the
Read MoreMiddle class feeding off the poor
Welfare If we stopped handing money to those who don’t need it, we’d be able to cut taxes and better look after the genuinely poor and needy. There is no government today that restricts itself to the provision of law
Read MoreChildcare Regulated to Death, says Senator Leyonhjelm
In a wide-ranging interview with Peter Van Onselen on Sky News, Senator Leyonhjelm stressed how the cost of childcare has exploded due to over-regulation. He also spoke about the inequity of providing childcare rebates to wealthy couples, how low interest
Read MoreWho guards the internet guards?
A Senate committee is investigating a proposal to force internet service providers to store for two years every email sent, website visited and communication undertaken by their customers. The idea, which originated with the previous government but is lingering, is
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