Comments on: How libertarian are you? http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/ Australian Libertarian Society Blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:45:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: skepticlawyer http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-282 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:47:00 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-282 This post has been removed by the author.

]]> By: skepticlawyer http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-281 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:46:00 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-281 Cheers Bryan. I wasn’t having a go at you, just that I wound up parked somewhere that felt very strange!

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-280 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:00:00 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-280 skepticalawyer … the gun question is waited the same as the other 49 questions. If you answered in favour of guns, it also helped your national party vote.

I agree that the test doesn’t give a compelling answer for libertarians. But then I think that reflects mainstream politics, where none of the parties engage a serious liberterian agenda.

Bryan

]]> By: Sam Ward http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-279 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:27:00 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-279 The old domain is gone. My new blog is at http://yobbo.wordpress.com, and the quiz is located at http://ldp.org.au/quiz/index.html

]]> By: skepticlawyer http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-278 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:05:00 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-278 Thanks Sam. I clicked on it a few times only to get the ‘blog temporarily closed due to spam’ message.

]]> By: Sam Ward http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-277 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:41:00 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-277 Sukrit, the LDP quiz that myself and John Humphreys designed is also available again, on the LDP website.

http://ldp.org.au/quiz/index.html

]]> By: Sukrit http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-276 Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:59:00 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-276 “What changes did the editor want Sukrit?”

Among other things, I was advised to word in a more ‘holistic’ view of things, including the part where I write about abolishing minimum wages. The editor also seemed to think I didn’t address the arguments against having a flat tax (it’s regressive, yada yada) but did the fact that the 30-30 tax proposal has a tax-free threshold of $30,000 go unnoticed?

Anyway, the point of my article was not to justify particular policy positions. There are other people who have done that far better than me. The point was to call for a more bipartisan approach to policy formulation, i.e. take the ‘liberal’ from the current policies of all sides of politics. So in short, to rework my article in a way that satisfied farrago was not worth my while.

I admit this might sound like sour grapes, but I always thought the role of the editor was not to challenge your particular arguments as much as to suggest ways of improving their presentation?

Anyhoo, I just can’t wait till student unions start feeling the pinch from VSU next year. It’ll be interesting to see if such editorial decisions survive in a more competitive environment. :-)

]]> By: mikey http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-275 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:27:00 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-275 I skimmed it a bit, cos im in a hurry (a fairly novel experience for me) but there’s a bunch of interesting points in there.

For the meantime, riddle me this. Is it fair to say the Howard government has followed its neoliberal instinct further on the international front than the domestic?

If you’re ever wondering where I am coming from it might be that the Peoples power platform will offer some concrete policy based clues. at least I hope they will.

And Sl, yr right; we do line up on the personal values – they call me left. Everywhere else im centre left, which offends the radical in me, but satisfy the anti-binarist in me (just in case that word means anything.)

What changes did the editor want Sukrit?

]]> By: skepticlawyer http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-274 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:03:00 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-274 That’s a good piece, Sukrit. I wish you’d given it a run over here when Farrago put the kybosh on it.

]]> By: Sukrit http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-273 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:57:00 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/how-libertarian-are-you/#comment-273 mikey,
You must mean the article I was going to write on LDP and People Power for farrago. I didn’t get time to write a proper journalistic piece so I wrote an opinion instead. As the socialists are currently in power at the student union, the editor wanted me to make changes I wasn’t prepared to make so I ended up shelving it.

LDP is a great alternative to the mainstream parties, unforunately most of the people involved have no time to give it the attention it needs to get somewhere.

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