Comments on: Libertarian Alliance Conference http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2007/07/15/libertarian-alliance-conference/ Australian Libertarian Society Blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:45:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: terje (say tay-a) http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2007/07/15/libertarian-alliance-conference/#comment-21640 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:41:44 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/libertarian-alliance-conference/#comment-21640 No but I have a photocopy of it. Also you should be able to get Policy magazine back issues. Or else whisper sweet things to John and see what happens. ;-)

http://www.policymagazine.com/

]]> By: pommygranate http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2007/07/15/libertarian-alliance-conference/#comment-21639 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:32:10 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/libertarian-alliance-conference/#comment-21639 Terje

Do you have a link to John’s article?

]]> By: Justin Jefferson http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2007/07/15/libertarian-alliance-conference/#comment-21595 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:36:21 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/libertarian-alliance-conference/#comment-21595 There are those libertarians who think that using government only makes the problem worse.

But I think since government is the main clog on liberty, to regain that liberty is going to take action in the legislature, to trim the lantana bush.

Ron Kitching in this excellent book ‘Understanding Personal and Economic Liberty’ relates the history of the Whigs who, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, repealed about *four-fifths* of the laws that had been passed since the thirteenth century, thus greatly increasing personal and economic liberty, definitively ending the feudal age, and ushering in the modern age.

Repealing four-fifths of the laws: aaah, that’s music to my ears. I think it’s about time the great broom-cupboard of state got another clean out.

As for privatising the sea, I can see why it should be privatised. But how would you do it?

]]> By: terje (say tay-a) http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2007/07/15/libertarian-alliance-conference/#comment-21570 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:12:06 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/libertarian-alliance-conference/#comment-21570 John Humphreys wrote a good essay called “Taking Classical Liberalism to the People” in the Autumn 2007 edition of the CIS Policy magazine. In it he explored the need for a classical liberal political party to challenge the status quo (social democracy). Its a good essay (even my better half though so) and well worth a read.

Also worth thinking about is New Zealand. They have two political parties that are positioned away from the centre of politics:-

1. ACT
2. Libertarianz.

Libertarianz is a very pure libertarian party. ACT seems to be more moderate without capitulating to the centre. ACT has had more political success (ie members elected) and it represents my prefered mode of agitating for political change. New Zealand is quite quite blessed in having two such parties. However it’s electoral system is quite different to both Australia and Britian.

]]> By: Fleeced http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2007/07/15/libertarian-alliance-conference/#comment-21566 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:55:15 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/libertarian-alliance-conference/#comment-21566 I would agree with you, Poms – a libertarian party is a necessary component in the fight for liberty.

“Why the sea should be privatised,” sounds like an interesting topic… something I hadn’t given much thought to – but now that I do seems full of potential. I would love to hear more on this in an Australian context.

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