Native animals as pets

In your home among the gum trees, would you prefer a native Australian animal as a pet to a cat or dog? Senator David Leyonhjelm explains why keeping native animals as pets is often a good idea.

Leyonhjelm on the Lib Dems marriage bill

Did Bill Shorten tell a porkie about his marriage bill? Senator Leyonhjelm explains why the Liberal Democrats marriage equality bill is better than the Greens and Labor’s bills.

Metadata: ‘I condemn this Bill’ –

Senator David Leyonhjelm’s extraordinary Third Reading Speech on the Data Retention Bill: one of his few before a full Senate, and which – unusually – reduced the Chamber to silence. The video also includes footage of the division.

‘My Name is Joe, and I’m a Spendaholic’: Struggle Street and the Budget

Senator Leyonhjelm, by way of a parable, explains what the Budget would look like if ordinary people ran their households in the same way.

Senator Leyonhjelm’s Budget Reply Speech, May 2015

‘Borrowing from the future to pay for the present’.

Senator Leyonhjelm’s speech on Australia’s new online copyright regime

The Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill is bad law; it protects rights-holders at everyone else’s expense, likely will not achieve its aims, and undermines freedom of speech. And that’s just for starters.

Senator Leyonhjelm’s blistering speech on the Pharmacy Guild and corporate welfare

Did you know that even if you are a fully qualified pharmacist, you have to write a letter to the Health Minister to open a pharmacy, and that other pharmacists who already own business in the area get to decide

Freedom to Marry – How the Liberal Democrat Marriage Equality Bill is different and better