Legal Policy
39 hours in the Senate
Last Thursday in the Senate, in a moment of tiredness, I admitted I’d had an interesting life before becoming a senator. After my election, I said, it’s been all downhill. Running an agribusiness consulting company, helping farmers with everything from
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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 would be a disaster. Not for the public, but for the thousands of public servants and lobbyists who would be out of a job.
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Senate voting reform will entrench the Greens as the ‘balance of power’ party
When Bill Shorten is one of the few people talking sense on Senate voting reform, you know we have a problem. On Tuesday, he observed that “it is not in the nation’s interest or our economic future to give the
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Our Government has Dr Evil’s budget management skills
While the government and opposition are both busy comparing innovative ways to hold everybody by the ankles and shake them, they don’t have a true appreciation of just how much money is already falling out of our pockets. In fact,
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Chooks ignored in argument over free range egg labelling
BE ALERT and alarmed – Australian governments are determined to regulate the egg market. A meeting
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Forget speed limits, let’s get in the fast lane
LAST year NSW Roads Minister Duncan Gay made headlines when he announced that he would consider
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Budget test: Turnbull must make the case for spending cuts
On the night he seized the prime ministership, Malcolm Turnbull, speaking about Australia’s economic problems, extolled
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Lockouts, public violence and whingeing doctors
Many years ago, when I first started working as a veterinarian, I accepted there would be
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Political donations: no taxation for our representation
Various people, the Greens among them, are cheering at the defeat of former Newcastle Lord Mayor
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The truth about Australia’s gun control experiment
Australians pride themselves on ‘telling it like it is’, but when it comes to gun laws,
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