IPA Review features a David Kemp excerpt from his George Reid lecture on 30th March 2016. George Reid was a laissez faire Liberal who stood on principle. He was a capable politician who, as education minister for NSW set up a model adopted by other colonies of a public high school, technical and further education and night lectures at university. He was ambivalent about the federation of Australia and became famous for a “yes no Speech” which lasted an hour and three quarters in 1898, over a hundred and ten years before Oakeshott. ALP domination of federal politics brought about protectionism through tariffs, limiting Reid’s term as Prime Minister in 1904 and ’05. Reid had been more effective as Premier of NSW in 1894 to 1899 when ALP had not had their protective way. Reid provided the intellectual capital which would later fire Menzies. Reid supported individual freedoms which no party leader endorses today. Reid had a substantial paunch, and when one guy in an audience asked how he would name it, he replied “If it is a boy, after myself. If it is a girl, I shall name her Victoria. But if, as I suspect, it is no more than piss and wind, I will name it after you.” He happily married a 23 year old woman when he was 46 in 1891. They had two sons and a daughter who survived him when he died in 1918, High Commissioner of Australia, in London.

In a triumph for Free Speech, a judge tossed out the prosecution of three university students who had questioned on Facebook why they were denied access to unused computers reserved for Aboriginal only students. They could have lied about their Aboriginality to obtain access, but had not acted so duplicitously. But a public servant took them to court with the support of Australia’s well remunerated chief of the Human Rights Council, Triggs. Triggs had investigated them for fourteen months without their knowledge. When charges were laid at their doorstep, fait accompli, they resisted the charges and have been smeared as racists. The 18c racial vilification legislation is counter to a free society. It needs to go. The students are vindicated, but scarred for life.

Australia is poorly positioned to capitalise on a Trump Presidency with both the foreign affairs Minister Julie Bishop and the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull talking out to personalise antipathy to Trump. One understands they prefer Hillary Clinton because they prefer working with corruption. They had insisted Abbott give over $10 million aid to the Clinton Foundation in 2014, and rolled Abbott after he stopped the payments. But neither Bishop nor Turnbull has explained how Australia will be better off with a corrupt Clinton as President, compared to a GOP backed Trump. Trump is not Reagan. Trump is very good at negotiations and knows how to run an executive team. Reagan was more reliant on insiders from GOP. Trump can deliver on promises better than Turnbull can. Turnbull has portrayed himself as being a good business executive. With Trump as President we will see a real one. Trump would never have put himself in the ridiculous position Turnbull has. All Turnbull can do now, constructively, is resign.

Meanwhile Trump’s progressive opponent is loved by the press and demonstrably corrupt. And the Libertarian candidate is trying to find Aleppo. Or a head of state.
Rumour now runs internationally that the apparent Saudi Spy who partners Hillary Clinton kept a life insurance policy of emails left in her ex husband’s computer. And the FBI found it. And so the insurance policy has been cashed in early. And the FBI investigating a witch on Halloween have found incriminating evidence on her familiar’s Weiner.

One person who knows how to profit from central planning is Hillary Clinton. The Chicago Tribune is withdrawing support from her, and suggesting that Democrats replace Hillary. But corrupt news, like the Tribune, knew everything now known about Hillary as they supported her days ago. Maybe they are only backing a tribe, but not a policy? And Maybe they want to find another crook. I note that press, who had accepted Hillary's corruption, are now denouncing her Saudi Spy Handler

Donald Trump's speech at Gettysburg is frightening media. They have supported and protected insider corruption for a long time. Trump will clean up the festering wound, and make America great again.