Press Releases
Burke ‘tone deaf’ to Murray Darling communities: Leyonhjelm
Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm says Labor’s Shadow Environment Minister Tony Burke will become public enemy number one to rural communities after indicating he wants to take a further 450 gigalitres of water each year out of the Murray Darling
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Leyonhjelm to researchers: Stop demanding taxpayers’ money
Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm says if Australia’s medical research community wants the politics to be removed from funding, they need to turn to private sources and stop being so greedy for taxpayers’ money. This follows calls by the Australian
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Leyonhjelm to teachers: leave them kids alone
After receiving a petition on Helensburgh Public School letterhead about asylum seekers, Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm says it appears kids as young as nine are being used by teachers as political pawns. Senator Leyonhjelm is concerned this demonstrates teachers
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Stop treating university students like children: Leyonhjelm
Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm says continuing discussions by the University of Sydney’s executive team to ban sugar soft drinks has a lot more to do with nanny-state thinking than concern for anybody’s health. “I remember a time not so
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Leyonhjelm challenges Nats to speak up on Adler
Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm is challenging the National Party to demonstrate they learned something from the Orange by-election by speaking up for shooters in the Senate. Senator Leyonhjelm has agreed to allow an extended debate about his disallowance
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Liberal Democrats reach goal for WA registration
The Liberal Democrats are set to join the West Australian state election race after a successful campaign saw membership double over the last month. The Party now has close to 800 members in WA, which comfortably meets requirements to register
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Leyonhjelm to introduce “Chopper Read” Bill
Like the Chopper Read character portrayed by comedian, Heath Franklin, Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm has today announced he will introduce a Bill to encourage Australians to harden up. In addition to his Bill to repeal section 18C of the
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Leyonhjelm looks to slash the red tape
The Senate agreed today to launch an inquiry into red tape. To be led by Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm, the Senate Select Committee will provide a rare overview of how red tape imposed on us by three levels of
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Liberal Democrats join race for WA election
Disaffected former supporters of the Liberal Party are amongst hundreds of people who have joined the Liberal Democrats in recent weeks, giving the party solid prospects of registering for the election and having a representative elected to the Upper House.
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Human Rights Commission accepts Leyonhjelm 18C complaint
Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm has received notification from the Human Rights Commission that it has accepted his S18C complaint against Fairfax journalist Mark Kenny, and that the case can now move to the conciliation stage. Senator Leyonhjelm says he
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