Comments on: LDP – Australia’s only “registered” libertarian party

By: John Mc

John Mc — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:27:30 +0000

It’s much more libertarian to have only a consumption tax. But progress is best achieved through gradual increments.

By: frank

frank — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:20:33 +0000

initially i was pretty optimistic when i heard about the LDP, too bad their idea of tax reform is still an income tax, wouldn’t it be more libertarian to have a consumption tax? does the state have a right to the fruits of your labor?

By: .

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:37:19 +0000

Um yes we know all of that. However I never tire of bringing it up of course, or putting it to Bernadi on Menzies House. Ah good times.

The fact is he is basically one of the few voices who will speak in the Senate against the Greens. If you want a question to be put to them, who are you going to write away to? Penny Wong?

By: centreblog

centreblog — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:17:26 +0000

The Liberal party are a conservative party. Under John Howard the bureaucracy grew bigger than even that of the Hawke or Keating era. There were so many jobs on offer in Canberra, they couldn’t be filled. Bernardi was part of that club and enjoyed all the junkets that came his way.

A great example, is the changes to the family payments system introduced by Howard. For an explanation:
http://www.centreblog.com.au/2011/03/07/rhetoric-on-family-payments-misses-the-point/

By: .

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:19:11 +0000

Centre – you need to read the description as your mouse hovers over the Senator’s name.

“Not a libertarian but one of the most free market people in the Senate”

We also have EROS/the Sex party, which are very socially liberal but are a it commo.

Credit where it is due old bean.

By: centreblog

centreblog — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:18:13 +0000

You have Cory Bernardi on your list as libertarian. What a joke. Didn’t he want to ban the hijab?

Libertarian means less government in all spheres of society, not just business regulation.

By: David

David — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:21:38 +0000

We need a bill of rights in this country to protect the individual from the government..Big is no good for anyone.”A government big enough to give you everything you want,is a government big enough to take everything you have.”GET RID OF THE HACKS.

By: Mark Hill

Mark Hill — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:26:19 +0000

Great, people won’t join until we have an army of volunteers.

How about necking up for a cause?

By: John Hasenkam

John Hasenkam — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:41:07 +0000

that the media portrays the Greens as an extremist group filled with freaks

have you read their policy page, Shem?

Comment by pommygranate | April 18, 2008

Perhaps missing the point? At least they get in the media. Any news is good news!

Your link to the ALS at the top right hand goes to a wordpress blog! Sheesh, policies people, point them to the policies not your rants. Using a blog to advertise anything is half baked crazy.

By: Shem Bennett

Shem Bennett — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:24:50 +0000

have you read their policy page, Shem?

Have you read ours? Both are about as much a departure from the status quo as the other.

Socialist Alliance is a larger departure from the status quo than either.

Extremist, while possessing negative connotations isn’t necessary a negative term, but rather a term that refers to radicalism.

Greens policy is not a RADICAL departure from the status quo. There a lot of words I can think of to call the Greens, but they are not “extremist”, at least no more than the LDP.

I doubt Greens policy if implemented would see more than a 5-10% increase in government spending. That, to me, is not radical.