The Tyranny of the Majority
The high turnout and overwhelmingly positive result of Australia’s voluntary postal plebiscite on same sex marriage enabled our...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Dec 1, 2017
- 2 min
The tragedy of the commons
John Gapper, in an opinion piece, in The Australian Financial Review on Friday, 1 December 2017, “Facebook’s fight for the common...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Nov 2, 2017
- 6 min
Minimum Wage Keeps Youth Unemployed
In the spirit of the famous Harvester case, ACTU secretary Sally McManus is proposing an overhaul of the national minimum wage to better...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Oct 4, 2017
- 2 min
Seminar on Libertarian Philosophy
I have developed a seminar to explain libertarian philosophy to a lay audience. The course draws on the work of Locke, Smith, Mises,...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Sep 4, 2017
- 1 min
Tolerance in a Pluralist Society
I think we should give credit to GetUp! for having the courage to withdraw its support from the petition seeking the deregistration of Dr...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Aug 31, 2017
- 7 min
The Rape Culture in Australian Universities
Imagine you are the Vice Chancellor of an Australian University, an extremely demanding job. You are approached by the Australian Human...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Aug 15, 2017
- 2 min
Striving for Perfection
On a recent visit to Dubrovnik, Jill and I chanced upon a fish restaurant in the Old Port area – Riblji Restoran Proto. It was a...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Jul 9, 2017
- 3 min
Politicians with Egg on their Face
There are views that used to be widely held, or even law, that today would be considered inappropriate. As John Stuart Mill remarked -...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Jul 3, 2017
- 5 min
Ten Green Bottles
Ten green bottles hanging on the wall. Ten green bottles hanging on the wall. And if one green bottle should accidentally fall, There...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Jun 15, 2017
- 1 min
The Inevitable Recession from Bad Energy Policy
The objective to provide reliable, low cost, low emission energy is fraught. We must choose our priorities. All three cannot be optimised...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Jun 7, 2017
- 2 min
Inspiring Pride in our Western Civilisation
We hear, ad nauseam, of the need to prevent Muslim youth in Western societies from being radicalised. Too little effort is made to...
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Peter Francis Fenwick
- Jun 3, 2017
- 2 min
Science Settled Politics Disrupted
President Trump has announced that the US will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. Relax. Do not slit your wrists. There is...
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