Canberra libertarian dinners
Since April 2002, the Australian Libertarian Society (ALS) has been hosting regular dinners in Canberra where libertarians could socialise, drink & debate. I stopped organising them when I left Canberra at the end of 2004, but thankfully the dinners have continued.
The next dinner will be on Wednesday the 2nd of June in O’Connor, with a guest appearance by the ex-President of the NZ Libertarianz Party Russell Watkins.
Now that I’m back in Brisbane I’ll be organising occasional libertarian dinner & drinks sessions. If you would like to be involved, please contact me (john.humphreys99@gmail.com, 0404 044561).
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) also arranges regular libertarian meetings around the country. Coming meetings include Brisbane (1 June), Melbourne (2 June), Adelaide (9 June), and Sydney (17 June). Details on the website.
If you would like to get involved, please feel free to contact an existing group or set up your own. Or if you know of other libertarian meet-ups around Australia, please let us know the details.
more judges, less lawyers.
In a recent interview the journalist Evan Whitton challenges the sacred cows of our legal system. He takes on ideas such as the right to silence, the notion of precedent, plea bargaining and client/lawyer privilege. In short order he turns some of our most treasured legal traditions on their heads and casts them as liabilities rather than assets. He says our system of justice favours too much the role of lawyers and is as a consequence excessively expensive, lets too many guilty people walk free and sends too many innocent people to prison. And he does what I thought was a reasonable job of arguing his case. I thought it was well worth shareing and I’d be interested in reactions.
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