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

Posted on Monday, 14th May 2012 by Ozboy

Or that one. Or that one.

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Comparative Advantage – Worth It On Balance?

Posted on Friday, 11th May 2012 by Ozboy

I’m still hammering away on my next longer essay. Meantime, one recent article I noticed on the Mises Daily is something I’ve been meaning to ask you about.

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Deferring To Our Betters?

Posted on Wednesday, 9th May 2012 by Ozboy

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 system involves adversarial jury trials.

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An Evening With James Delingpole

Posted on Monday, 30th April 2012 by Ozboy

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.

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Calling A Spade A Bloody Shovel

Posted on Thursday, 26th April 2012 by Ozboy

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Our Traditions Are Worth Upholding

Posted on Wednesday, 25th April 2012 by Ozboy

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 made the ultimate sacrifice in the cause of our nation’s freedom.

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Copyright And Intellectual Property – A Case Of Overkill

Posted on Friday, 20th April 2012 by Ozboy

Two pieces of information I’ve received in the last 24 hours prompted me to open a discussion on Libertarianism and intellectual property rights. Firstly, the tragic death yesterday of Australian band Men At Work’s multi-instrumentalist Greg Ham, in his suburban Melbourne home at the age of 58. Responsible for the distinctive flute introduction to our unofficial national anthem Down Under (which by a strange coincidence I posted in the Juke Box only two days ago), and the saxophone hook for Overkill above, Ham’s life was wrecked by a plagiarism case two years ago.

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Neither A Soul To Damn, Nor A Body To Kick

Posted on Saturday, 7th April 2012 by Ozboy

Today I’m having a look at an issue you might not generally associate with Libertarianism, but whose existence directly impacts on the liberty of us all, thousands of times every day: the company. Specifically, the limited-liability, joint stockholder corporation.

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Revenge Of The Banana Benders

Posted on Tuesday, 3rd April 2012 by Ozboy

That’s how people in other states of Australia refer to Queenslanders. The state election on March 24, resulting in the biggest electoral loss for the Australian Labor Party in any election since the Second World War, says much about the people of this very enigmatic place, but has profound implications for Labor federally, and democracy in Australia more broadly.

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Power In All The Wrong Hands

Posted on Sunday, 25th March 2012 by Ozboy

I’m still rather tied up, so I thought as a bit of a change of pace,  I’d direct you to a rather marvellous article from the von Mises Institute: The Seven Rules of Bureaucracy. Had me in stitches at several points, as it’s just so applicable. Almost as if it were plucked from the scripts of Yes, Minister as above. Go have a read and let me know what you think. I’m out woodcutting today, but I’ll stick my head in a bit later on.

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