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By Sarah Burnside, published 18/6/2010The 2010 election contest is likely to bring long-muted questions of class, privilege and ideology to the fore.
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earlier this year, Joe Hockey made a speech to the Grattan Institute in which he defined the Liberals as “the only political party … established to advance the cause of liberty”
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On 19 March 2010 I completed an electronic application to joint the Liberal Party and by its constitution I am a member. Being a CONSTITUTIONALIST I know what is or isn’t applicable, however the Liberal party on 4 June 2010 decided to defeat my application without any explanation as to why. It might have been perhaps that I exposed the Liberal Party’s constitution to contain legal nonsense but then again that is why I am a CONSTITUTIONALIST. So forget about advancing the cause of liberty as they the leaders of the Liberal party were missing in action in that regard, they can’t even run their own party as to their own constitutional requirements. And as to the SUPER TAX can they all just stop dazzling the electors with their nonsense and just accept that while the commonwealth has taxation powers any SUPER TAX is unconstitutional where it would not be a tax to the whole of the commonwealth. Isn’t this very simple? So Joe Hockey might just do better to learn about the constitution and what is or isn’t applicable. And so everyone else for that matter.