Category Archives: Australia

Parliament On A Knife Edge Part V – I Did Not Have Sex With That Woman

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

Or that one. Or that one.

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Deferring To Our Betters?

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

I’m in the middle of writing a longer article on religion; but meantime, here’s an article from today’s Sydney Daily Telegraph that caught my eye, and which has serious implications for the administration of criminal justice in all countries whose … Continue reading →

Posted in Australia, Libertarianism, Rights | 90 Comments

An Evening With James Delingpole

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

Today’s LibertyGibbert thread comes to you from Sydney, Australia’s largest city, where this evening I had the great pleasure of listening to James Delingpole, climate warrior and God-Emperor of the blogosphere, speaking live to a packed house.

Posted in Australia, Libertarianism, UK | 48 Comments

Our Traditions Are Worth Upholding

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

On this day, the 97th Anzac Day, I have been wondering about the motives of some in our community who, by all appearances, seem to want to ditch our national traditions, in particular our annual remembrance of those soldiers who … Continue reading →

Posted in Australia, Commonwealth of Nations, Libertarianism | 12 Comments

Revenge Of The Banana Benders

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

That’s how people in other states of Australia refer to Queenslanders. The state election on March 24, resulting in the biggest electoral loss for the Australian Labor Party in any election since the Second World War, says much about the … Continue reading →

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Agree Or Else Part II – The Silencing Of Dissent

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

Our God-Emperor beat me to it. The Australian Government’s Finkelstein Report, released last Friday, is the stuff of all freedom-loving people’s nightmares. It proposes the establishment of a new bureaucracy, the News Media Council, to “regulate” all forms of print … Continue reading →

Posted in Australia, Libertarianism | 60 Comments

Ugly Australia

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

This isn’t the thread I had planned to write. Actually, I had planned to put out an essay last Thursday—Australia Day, commemorating the 224th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove. I had planned to tell … Continue reading →

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Parliament On A Knife Edge Part IV – The Rise Of Slippery Pete

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

And on it goes. The Gillard government clearly believes it was about to lose its one-seat parliamentary majority, either with this bloke making good on his threat to withdraw support, or this one being carted off to jail. It’s the … Continue reading →

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Agree Or Else

Posted on November 19, 2011 by

I thought I had better post another discussion point for those who haven’t read Ayn Rand; so how about this article, by the Sydney Daily Telegraph’s Miranda Devine, to which Dr Dave and CommonSenseMajority alerted us the other day.

Posted in Australia, Libertarianism, Rights | 46 Comments

A Game Of Chicken

Posted on October 13, 2011 by

The Gillard Government’s Carbon Tax legislation passed the Lower House yesterday, by the slenderest of majorities. Next month it will pass the Senate, in which the Australian Greens hold the balance of power. The eighteen bills of which this legislation … Continue reading →

Posted in AGW, Australia, Rights | 18 Comments