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The Freedom Fog
One of the biggest personal journeys I experienced last year was my return to faith and the One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
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James Hol
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10 Outlandish Predictions For 2025
Do you agree or disagree?
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Kenelm Tonkin
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Victoria’s Knee-Jerk Laws Are Not Good Laws
If you think Victoria is serious about protecting Jews, you’re not paying attention.
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Liberty Itch
Auberon Herbert and the Principles of the Voluntary State
The unsung, and sadly neglected, English classical liberal philosopher and MP Auberon Herbert (1838–1906) coined the term “voluntaryism” to describe his…
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Jonathan Cole
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Why We Must Defend the Right to Protest Outside Places of Worship
Weighing competing rights
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Jessica Colby
1

Philosophy

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Auberon Herbert and the Principles of the Voluntary State
The unsung, and sadly neglected, English classical liberal philosopher and MP Auberon Herbert (1838–1906) coined the term “voluntaryism” to describe his…
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Jonathan Cole
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Classic Liberal Comebacks to Conservative Russell Kirk
Battle of Ideas
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Kenelm Tonkin
Was John Locke a Proto-Libertarian?
English philosopher John Locke is widely regarded as the father of liberalism.
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Jonathan Cole
Libertarianism is an Ideology, But Not a World View
Libertarianism is an ideology, but not a world view, according to a distinction offered by Ludwig von Mises in Human Action. A world view, Mises…
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Jonathan Cole
Can Libertarianism Become a Brand in Australia?
Dean Russell, a staff member at The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), was the first to propose that America’s classical liberals and…
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Jonathan Cole

Economics

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The Reckoning is Coming
Economic doom is coming for most but there's good news for opportunity seekers
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Damon Hayhow
Taxing The Country Into Welfare And Disability
“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity
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Liberty Itch
Interest Rates In The Upside-Down and Why They Are Going Up
Real interest rates are negative at the moment.
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Liberty Itch
An Inflated Balloon And A Fish Market With Smelly Cash
Reform of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has been in the headlines.
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Liberty Itch

Taxation

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The Problems with Property Taxes
Property taxes are imposed on people who own property, the amount typically based on what the government deems the property to be worth.
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Jessica Colby
Resisting Centralist Power – Part 2
Following the Second World War, the most dramatic shift in the balance of tax power between the States and Commonwealth occurred.
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Liberty Itch
GST is Better than Income Tax
In my last article I argued that a flat and broad-based income tax is much the same as a broad-based GST, so we have little reason to hate the concept…
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Liberty Itch
Hate Income Tax? You Shouldn’t!
Some taxes are more damaging than others.
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Geopolitics

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China 2024 and Beyond: A Troubled Future
My recent discussions on Liberty Itch have painted a picture of China’s landscape as a prison-like surveillance-intensive system, and as a no-privacy…
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Liberty Itch
The Death of Li Keqiang
Li Keqiang, China’s former Prime Minister, passed away on 27th October 2023, at the age of 68.
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Liberty Itch
INTERVIEW: Former Chinese Diplomat Embraces Liberty
CCP defector offers Australia a valuable warning of things to come
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Liberty Itch
Soft Power Through The Arts
Last month, Liberty Itch revealed how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses Chinese culture and the Chinese-Australian diaspora to engage in…
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Liberty Itch

Civil Liberties, Rights & Freedoms

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Why We Must Defend the Right to Protest Outside Places of Worship
Weighing competing rights
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Jessica Colby
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Under-16 Ban – Protecting Kids or Power?
Voters should be wary whenever major parties align too closely.
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Scott Harrison
Ban The Culture While You’re At It, Albo
Imagine a country that purports to be a liberal democracy but, in the face of a crisis partly real and mostly imagined, enacts a blanket policy of…
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Tom Valcanis
Cows, Comforts, and the Cost of Complacency
I am a beef producer and spend a lot of my time observing cattle. I gain a lot from observing cattle – how they interact, what they like, their…
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Jim Willmott
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Predictions

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10 Outlandish Predictions For 2025
Do you agree or disagree?
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Kenelm Tonkin
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25 Provocative Predictions For 2024 From The World’s #1 Political Observer
And do you agree with them?
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Kenelm Tonkin
3 Horrifying NSW Election Predictions
Tomorrow, New South Wales voters will choose their next government.
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Kenelm Tonkin
Stunning Early Victorian Election Prediction
To be clear, I don’t know who’s going to win the Victorian election later tonight, 26 November 2022.
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Kenelm Tonkin
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Education

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Raising Free Thinkers: The Case for Homeschooling
Two months ago I wrote an article in which I questioned my boy’s childcare centre for indoctrinating kids at preschool age about the controversial…
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Another Brick in the Wall
Libertarians don’t argue a lot about education policy. And yet, ‘school choice’ and ‘decentralised education’ are ideas that unite us with conservatives…
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Liberty Itch
14 Crackerjack Ideas To Revivify Education
It’s no secret our education system is one of many government institutions at breaking point.
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Liberty Itch
The 13 Benefits of Home Schooling
plus cost comparison with top-tier private, standard private and public schools
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Kenelm Tonkin

Satire, Parody, Humour

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Galahs & Cockies Ep. #1
Lots of squawking.
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Kenelm Tonkin
MUST-WATCH VIDEO: Friday Funny
A libertarian in the public service.
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Kenelm Tonkin
Caption This …
All smiles this week for the new-look, revamped Victorian Liberal Party shadow ministry.
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Kenelm Tonkin
10 Therapeutic Applications For My Bulk-Purchased Superglue
He’s nearly always overseas anyway.
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Kenelm Tonkin
VIDEO: Great Moments In Unexpected Consequences
Courtesy: Reason Magazine.
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Kenelm Tonkin
12 Visionary Reasons To Just Embrace The Postmodernists, Damn It!
Welcome to your very own, brand-new Commonwealth of Postmodernism.
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Kenelm Tonkin
CAPTION THIS: What is Malcolm Roberts Thinking?
Yesterday’s antics from “Senator” Lidia Thorpe were AOC-esque in their immaturity.
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Kenelm Tonkin
FRIDAY FUNNY: Cackling Kamala!
Enjoy!
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Kenelm Tonkin
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