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Putting an Honest Face on Tyranny
It is not that hard and has antique precedence, but we have taken it to a whole new level.
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Gerardine Hoogland
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How much should we pay our pollies?
Among the many criticisms of politicians is the accusation that they are only in it for the pay and perks, looking after themselves rather than the…
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David Leyonhjelm
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On Guns, Feelings Are Not Facts
Whenever there is a public shooting in America, Australian media and politicians give a sigh and shake their heads in mock despair.
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David Leyonhjelm
8 Reasons Liberal Democracies Should Never Ban Political Speech
Never ban political speech.
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Kenelm Tonkin
You Leave Your Free Speech at the Boss’s Door
Winston Peters’ heckler voided his free speech rights the moment he put the company lanyard around his neck.
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Lushington Brady

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Ep15: Sent to the DOGE Pound - with Campbell Newman
13 years before Donald Trump and Elon Musk created DOGE (the Department of Government Efficiency) in the US, Queenslanders elected Campbell Newman as…
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Damon Hayhow
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Ep14: 2025 Election Review - with John Ruddick MLC
For episode 14 of the liberty itch podcast, the honourable John Ruddick - Libertarian Party member of the NSW Legislative Council - gives his assessment…
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Damon Hayhow
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Ep13: Cancelled - Danny King
The latest book of multi-award winning writer Danny King, is ‘Cancelled’.
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Damon Hayhow
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Tom Valcanis
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Ep12: Good People Break Bad Laws - with Topher Field
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Damon Hayhow
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Ep11: Censored for Conspiracy Theories - James Corbett
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Damon Hayhow
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The Corbett Report
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Ep10: Deep State Council - with Steve Holland
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Damon Hayhow
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Steve Holland
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Ep 9: Covid Critique - Gigi Foster
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Damon Hayhow
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Tom Valcanis
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Prof. Gigi Foster
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Ep8: Lies, Crime & Corruption. Phantom of the Senate - Jordan Dittloff
Watch now | Click here for the 2023 Discernable interview with Jordan’s backstory
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Damon Hayhow
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Ep7: David vs Holiath - Libertarian Debate
In this episode, Liberty Itch writers, James Hol, (former senator) David Leyonhjelm and I discuss libertarian concepts that each has written about.
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Damon Hayhow
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James Hol
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David Leyonhjelm
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Ep6: Chinese Political Dissident - Warren Wang.
Warren is a Chinese national who escaped(?) communist China, and has now been living in Australia for 12 years.
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Damon Hayhow
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Warren Wang
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Episode 5: Gun Control - with David Leyonhjelm
Listen now | Senator David Leyonhjelm is the guest for episode 5 of the Liberty Itch podcast.
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Damon Hayhow
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David Leyonhjelm
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Liberty Itch Podcast | Episode 4 | Bob Day on Work Freedom
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Damon Hayhow
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Bob Day

Philosophy, Philosophers, Exemplars

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Liberty Can’t Win If It’s Not on the Ballot
They’re still counting ballots, but it’s clear the 2025 Australian federal election has delivered a thumping defeat for the Liberal Party.
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Steve Holland
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Differentiate or Drop Dead
My inbox and DMs are a cesspool of Liberal Party cry babies, snivelling over the election’s crushing verdict.
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Kenelm Tonkin
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Citizens Must Fight For Their Freedoms or Lose Them
Ludwig von Mises, known in his native Austria as the “knight of liberalism,” had the important insight that “governments are never liberal from…
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Jonathan Cole
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VIDEO: Liberty Itch Podcast | Episode 2 | Jonathan Cole, Libertarian Philosopher
Watch now | Libertarian Denominations and Applications in Australia
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Damon Hayhow
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Jonathan Cole
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Building Walls
This month marks the 28th anniversary of the passing of one of Australia’s great political figures, Bert Kelly.
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Bob Day
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Economics

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Get Rid of Super and Fix Housing - A Worthwhile Trade-off?
I don’t have to tell you we’re in the midst of a housing crisis.
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Tom Valcanis
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Please Eggsplain
How many times is a 'deadly flu' going to be used as cover for lies and mismanagement by governments and big corporations?
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Scott Harrison
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A Libertarian Response to "Enshittification”
Have you noticed those convenient and life-changing apps we once lauded as the future kinda suck now?
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Tom Valcanis
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Australia: Not Quite Economically Sentient
If you’re in need of a dark, bitter laugh – the kind inspired by a gnawing existential dread – I have a recommendation for you.
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Tom Valcanis
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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
We Are Family
The family unit is a core tenet of a functioning free society.
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Max Payne
CFMEU Should NOT Exist in the First Place
In light of recent scandals surrounding the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), it is time to consider a more fundamental…
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Warren Wang
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Smaller Government: Georgia Shows It’s Achievable
To any true libertarian, Government regulation in Australia feels increasingly suffocating.
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Damon Hayhow

Taxation

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Unrealised Capital Gains Tax
Tax on unrealised capital gains, which the Labor government plans to implement, is among the most intellectually bankrupt of concepts, even for…
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Damon Hayhow
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The Liberals and Their Tax Policy
The Liberals have announced a one-year tax offset that people will receive in 15 months.
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John Humphreys
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Taxed to the Max: The Hidden Cost of Government
There’s no comprehensive or conclusive list of all the taxes levied on Australians by our three levels of government.
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Steve Holland
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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
We Are Family
The family unit is a core tenet of a functioning free society.
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Max Payne
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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Liberty Itch

Geopolitics, Statecraft, International Strategy

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The New Russian Freedom Program
Russia, we are told, is a brutal, undemocratic dictatorship, ruled with an iron fist by an evil, murderous madman named Putin.
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Damon Hayhow
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UAE Facilitating Australian Crime?
A recent article in the Age…
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Damon Hayhow
Facing China with a Third Path: The Libertarian Road
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has just concluded a four-day visit to Australia, marking the highest-level visit in seven years and widely seen as a full…
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Warren Wang
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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Warren Wang
3 Wacky Crazy Ideas Creeping into International Politics
This is Part 3 of my 3-Part series on geopolitics.
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Kenelm Tonkin
Beware! This Article Channels the Ghosts of Locke, JSM, Friedman and Other Pugnacious Thinkers
This is Part 2 of my 3-Part series on geopolitics.
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Kenelm Tonkin
5 Ways to Maximise Peace in the World
Welcome to Part 1 of my 3-Part series on geopolitics.
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Kenelm Tonkin
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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Warren Wang
Smaller Government: Georgia Shows It’s Achievable
To any true libertarian, Government regulation in Australia feels increasingly suffocating.
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Damon Hayhow
A Different Way to Scratch Your Liberty Itch
Who is John Galt?
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Damon Hayhow
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, Freedoms, Natural Rights

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The Forbidden Media: A Lesser Recognised Threat to Freedom of Expression Part 3
In 2017, A Current Affair journalist Ben McCormack was arrested for child abuse material.
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Jessica Colby
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The Forbidden Media: A Lesser Recognised Threat to Freedom of Expression Part 2
In 2008, an NSW man was convicted of child porn for possessing, of all things, cartoon porn of The Simpsons. Lisa Simpson and Bart Simpson may be…
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Jessica Colby
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The Forbidden Media: A Lesser Recognised Threat to Freedom of Expression Part 1
On March 20, a Sydney based erotic author under the pen name of Tori Woods published a pre-release batch of her book named Daddy’s Little Toy. This is a…
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Jessica Colby
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The Nanny State Infests Our World
Not many of us like being told how to live our lives, especially by those we don’t know and trust.
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David Leyonhjelm
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The Benefits of Legalising Marijuana
The War on Drugs has been aggressively pursued by many governments since the 1960s.
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Jessica Colby
Lost Property
For instruction on how to regulate society, it’s hard to go past the 10 Commandments.
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Bob Day
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Definition’s End: What is a Liberal Democracy?
On former Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson’s Conversations podcast, comedian and host of Triggernometry Konstantin Kisin posed this.
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Tom Valcanis
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The Day Big Wind Came To Town
Rye Park woke to another radiant morning, sunlight spilling over a small rural village cradled between sprawling grazing lands and fertile farms.
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Jim Willmott
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In Regards To Future Lockdowns
The 27th of March 2025 marks the five-year anniversary of Covid lockdowns in my state of South Australia - a policy that brought suffering and derailed…
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Jessica Colby
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Self Defence – An Original Right
Self-defence has been recognised as a right for thousands of years.
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David Leyonhjelm
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Ep6: Chinese Political Dissident - Warren Wang.
Warren is a Chinese national who escaped(?) communist China, and has now been living in Australia for 12 years.
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Damon Hayhow
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Warren Wang
The Protection of Our Private Property Rights
For over two decades, Queensland private property owners have been subjected to an expansive, costly and coercive government initiative: the National…
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Jim Willmott
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Satire, Parody, Humour

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The Mount Barker Boobocracy: A Study In Municipal Imbecility
In the grand circus of human governance, where the clowns of federal and international politics usually hold the spotlight, I turn my jaundiced eye to a…
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Kenelm Tonkin
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A Few Questions for Marxists
Almost two-thirds of Australian businesses are sole-traders with no employees.
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Damon Hayhow
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Choking on Lemon Myrtle and Goodwill
Government.
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Kenelm Tonkin
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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
Great Moments In Unintended Consequences
Friday Funny is here and I simply had to share this from Reason Magazine.
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Kenelm Tonkin
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