Paul Barker 🌸 🛠

NZ nearly smoke free, thanks in large part to their regulated vaping market. Quite the contrast to Australia where vapes are harder to get than cigarettes, the black market is booming, and smoking rates are increasing. Hard to think of a worse series of policy outcomes.

It's very rare that I have a win on council, but today I learned that my questioning the need for 4 light poles at Stribling Reserve has resulted in officers finding that we can proceed with only 2 light poles. This is going to save council in the realm of $100,000

Libertarians believe that individuals should solve problems, and that we should have far less reliance on government. Victorian Libertarians, in the South Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, were putting this into action yesterday. Members of the South East Branch of @LibertariansVic…

Dear Australian Business Owners, I am sure, by now, you have experienced the added cost, heartache, and stress caused to you by government over taxation and over regulation. All of you have looked at your balance sheet, and your P&L, and identified that "if only that tax bill…

When governments make the hurdles too high, people will just go around them

We bought the energy saver light bulbs. We bought the energy efficient appliances. We got the 'smart meters'. We've covered our hillsides in solar panels. We've covered our hilltops in wind turbines. We did ALL of the things that were going to make energy cheaper... ... but my…