Category Archives: Australia

Getting The Government We Deserve

I’m so gob-smacked by this that words just about fail me.

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Violence An Inch Beneath The Surface

What are we to make of this lot?

Posted in Australia, Libertarianism, Religion, United States of America | 74 Comments

The Rainbow Connection

Last Thursday, Tasmania’s Lower House of parliament passed a bill which, if ratified by the Upper House next month, will make the Apple Isle the first state of Australia to legalize gay marriage.

Posted in Australia, Libertarianism, Religion, Rights, UK | 168 Comments

Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VII – The Net Closes

Well, it’s happened at last. The festering stink of corruption within the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s is now front-page news on every paper in the country.

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Meet The Asylum’s New Management

The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading

Posted in Australia | 24 Comments

Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VI – What Goes Around…

Well, it’s finally happened. The scandal surrounding corruption in the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s, which LibertyGibbert covered last August, has now been formally raised in Federal Parliament.

Posted in Australia | 18 Comments

Parliament On A Knife Edge Part V – I Did Not Have Sex With That Woman

Or that one. Or that one.

Posted in Australia | 12 Comments

Deferring To Our Betters?

I’m in the middle of writing a longer article on religion; but meantime, here’s an article from today’s Sydney Daily Telegraph that caught my eye, and which has serious implications for the administration of criminal justice in all countries whose … Continue reading

Posted in Australia, Libertarianism, Rights | 90 Comments

An Evening With James Delingpole

Today’s LibertyGibbert thread comes to you from Sydney, Australia’s largest city, where this evening I had the great pleasure of listening to James Delingpole, climate warrior and God-Emperor of the blogosphere, speaking live to a packed house.

Posted in Australia, Libertarianism, UK | 48 Comments

Our Traditions Are Worth Upholding

On this day, the 97th Anzac Day, I have been wondering about the motives of some in our community who, by all appearances, seem to want to ditch our national traditions, in particular our annual remembrance of those soldiers who … Continue reading

Posted in Australia, Commonwealth of Nations, Libertarianism | 12 Comments