Press Releases
Same sex marriage will fail without compromise: Leyonhjelm
Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm is urging politicians from all parties to work to achieve same sex marriage rather than mark out their territory. “Same sex marriage is like a little seedling, and all the interest groups that want to
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Migration could repair budget black hole in two years: PC Report
Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm is urging the Government to look carefully at the options in the Report by the Productivity Commission into the Migrant Intake released today outlining how Australia could save taxpayers $25 billion each year. Senator Leyonhjelm
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Leyonhjelm to introduce freedom to marry circuit-breaker
Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm will this week introduce a revised Freedom to Marry Bill that would prevent people from being coerced by anti-discrimination law into providing goods or services for weddings, both same sex and opposite sex. The legislation
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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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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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Leyonhjelm urges Greens to rethink stance on marriage
Liberal Democrats Senator Leyonhjelm says freedom to marry is likely to be put back years unless a plebiscite occurs. Senator Leyonhjelm, who introduced his own freedom to marry bill to the Senate in 2014, says the Government has made it
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Complaint to Human Rights Commission
Liberal Democrats Senator Leyonhjelm has lodged a complaint with the Human Rights Commission about insults directed at him in the Sydney Morning Herald on August 8 by Mark Kenny. He will complain under the auspices of an Act he is
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Liberal Democrats pledge to end drivers’ red tape nightmare
Senator David Leyonhjelm has today pledged that elected Liberal Democrats Senators will introduce legislation that would free taxi drivers and ride sharers from the obligation to fill out the blizzard of paperwork required by our tax laws while their revenue
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Marlboro Man makes comeback as Liberal Democrats seek smokers’ vote
The Marlboro Man has made his first appearance on an Australian billboard since at least 1992, on a 13-metre billboard on Victoria Road Rydalmere with Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm. This is part of a major campaign for the Liberal
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