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Victimless Crimes

The LDP does not generally support the criminalisation of victimless crimes and seeks to reduce the intrusion of government into these areas. ...
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Taxation

The LDP supports significant tax cuts. ...
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Civil Liberties and Freedom

The LDP opposes programs that seek to impose particular values or correct perceived disadvantage through affirmative action. ...
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Taiwan

The LDP recognises the reality that Taiwan (The Republic of China) is a free, prosperous and independent country and supports immediate re-establishment of full diplomatic relations and a seat at the...
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Energy

The LDP does not believe in either subsidising or unfairly taxing any particular source of energy, including nuclear. ...
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Competitive Federalism

The LDP supports competitive federalism as it was intended by the founders of the constitution. ...
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School Education

The LDP believes school regulation should be devolved to state level and funded through school vouchers that promote competition between schools and encourage parental choice. ...
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Lifestyle Choices

Adults must be free to make their own lifestyle decisions, including marriage, without interference by the government or requiring its approval. ...
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Assisted Suicide

The LDP believes adults have a right to end their own lives, with or without assistance, and to have access to information to help them do it. ...
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Immigration

The LDP would increase opportunities to live and work in Australia while carefully guarding access to welfare and citizenship. ...
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Traffic Laws

The LDP believes traffic laws should strike a better balance between safety and efficient travel. ...
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Defence

 National defence is a legitimate role of the Commonwealth government. However, unnecessary expenditure on defence contributes to excessive taxation. ...
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Gambling

  The LDP neither supports nor opposes gambling. It regards it as like any other form of entertainment - a matter of choice for responsible adults. ...
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Tibet (བོད་)

Tibet has struggled to remain independent of China for centuries. ...
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Budget

Within a small government context, the LDP believes government should fund recurrent activities entirely through taxation and balance liabilities and assets to achieve the equiivalent of zero net wort...
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Environment

The LDP values the natural environment within the context of a prosperous society that provides equal protection under the law and is based on respect for individual freedom, personal responsibilit...
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Foreign Aid

The LDP believes government foreign aid, other than short term humanitarian relief, should cease.  ...
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Deregulate and Privatise

The LDP advocates an immediate end to government ownership of the ABC, SBS, Australia Post, Medibank Private, electricity generation corporations, and bus, ferry and rail services. ...
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Free Trade

The LDP supports free international trade in goods, services and capital. ...
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Smoking

The LDP is neither pro-smoking nor anti-smoking; it is pro-choice. ...
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Labour Market Regulation

  The LDP supports a free market in labour and would replace the minimum wage with a negative income tax to support low-income earners. ...
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Property Rights

The LDP believes maintaining the safety and security of the Australian people and their property must be the government’s first priority. ...
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It's not enough to disapprove

alt Everyone disapproves of things that others do. But if we prohibit all the things we disapprove of, nobody will be free.

Smoking, drinking, gambling, eating and certain recreational activities are good examples. While they might be entitled to give advice about the risks, regulators are increasingly taking personal choices away from individuals based on disapproval of the choices they might make.

You Pay Too Much Tax

The Liberal Democratic Party is Australia's only party that does not appeal to voters based on the claim that it is better at spending our taxes.

The LDP believes Australians pay far too much tax and wants to see them substantially reduced. Since 1996, per capita taxation has increased by more than a third after allowing for inflation, not including the GST.  As a share of GDP, taxes (federal and state) are 75% above what they were in 1972, when the Whitlam government was first elected.

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Current Events

National Conference 2012

The 2012 National Conference of the Liberal Democratic Party was held on 5 February at the City Convention Centre in Melbourne.

Formal business included reports, election of National Executive members and approval of policies.

The guest speaker was Mr Chris Berg. Chris is a Research Fellow with the Institute of Public Affairs, a regular columnist with the Sunday Age and ABC's  The Drum, and an award-winning former editor of the IPA Review. 

His presentation is in three parts. The first is below. Click here and here for the second and third parts.

 

The Private Realm

When the Athenians established democracy around 508 BC, they recognised there should be a distinction between the public and private realms.

Aristotle described the public realm as the site where people consent to or contest the laws, contracts, covenants, or principles of community that govern personal and social conduct. The private realm was defined by the hearth and home, remaining the place of family, comfort and individual identity in which the government had no role.
 
The distinction still exists. We acknowledge that some issues are the legitimate responsibility of the government - such as national defence and the criminal justice system. However, we also know that some belong in the private domain and are not the government’s business. Few would want the government telling us what to wear, regulating our intimate relationships or telling us how much chocolate we can eat, for example.

The carbon tax - useless and pointless

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Whether or not the world is getting warmer, and whether humans are contributing, the proposed Carbon Tax is bad policy. The Liberal Democratic Party believes there will be far less misery if society is simply encouraged to adapt to the changing climate, allowing market responses to proceed and providing support to any people or countries that are genuinely adversely affected.

No Internet Censorship

The government wants to censor the internet and control the flow of information. But freedom of speech is central to a free, democratic society as it allows people to challenge authority and express their personal opinions..

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The Liberal Democratic Party stands for lower taxes, small government and individual responsibility.

It believes people should make their own choices and not rely on the government. It supports both economic and social liberalism.

The LDP is anti-left, anti-right, pro-liberty.