Last week the Liberal Party, and particularly its leader, opted out of debate. Following the inquiry into the racial discrimination act,...

When Vaclav Havel died in 2011, tens of thousands of Czech citizens paid their respects. It is rare for a politician to be so loved. Havel was a man of great integrity who spent his life “living the truth” in a society that was “living a lie”. Nearly a year has passed since I wrote the following text which become part of the back cover for my book The Fragility of Freedom: Why Subsidiarity Matters. “…the coercive and regularity powers of the state have been captured by s