Liberty Itch Podcast

On August 3rd, 2025, Libertarian member of the NSW Legislative council, John Ruddick, allegedly abandoned libertarianism and abandoned his christian faith. On that fateful day, John - allegedly - became a Muslim; and a Marxist; and an antisemite; and a violent terrorist. If this sounds dubious to you, that’s good. Because it is nonsense. Obviously. John’s beliefs and values have not changed. He st...

The Australian government recently announced its proud adoption of the WHO’s divisive Pandemic Agreement. Fortunately, they are not telling the truth about that. The revised pandemic agreement is slightly less horrifying than the original Pandemic Treaty. But that is not really true either. The truth is, many of the most concerning terms from the original Pandemic Treaty have been moved into amend...

13 years before Donald Trump and Elon Musk created DOGE (the Department of Government Efficiency) in the US, Queenslanders elected Campbell Newman as Premier with a DOGE-like mandate to remove the waste, inefficiency, fraud and abuse from the Queensland State Government. Unlike most politicians, Campbell actually did the job he was elected to do. He reduced the government’s spending, reduced the s...

For episode 14 of the liberty itch podcast, the honourable John Ruddick - Libertarian Party member of the NSW Legislative Council - gives his assessment of the 2025 Australian federal election, the issues impacting the result, how Labor won, and the future of freedom-focussed parties in Australian politics. John is a lifelong libertarian who devoted over 20 years to trying to redirect the Liberal...

The latest book of multi-award winning writer Danny King, is ‘Cancelled’. It is a satirical novel set in a future world in which saying or thinking the wrong thing gets you cancelled from mainstream society. Ironically, here in the present, the publishers tried to cancel ‘Cancelled’. So, Liberty Itch writer, Tom Valcanis, decided to ask Danny about ‘Cancelled’, being cancelled, and writing in our...

Topher is the multi award winning director of Battleground Melbourne; a powerful documentary about the lies and human-rights abuses of the Dan Andrews government and Victorian police during the Covid sham. It can actually be viewed for free at: https://battlegroundmelbourne.com He was also Australian Libertarian of the year in 2022, Libertarian activist of the year in 2016, and he is author of the...

Ned Kelly. Al Capone. James Corbett. Every era has a dangerous villain who exploits the technology of the day to break the rules and confound authorities. If the media is to believed, James Corbett more dangerous than Kelly or Capone were. He is one of the most prolific of the internet’s allegedly ‘dangerous conspiracy theorists’. James was among the first to be censored and deplatformed from mult...

Steve Holland was the youngest ever mayor of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. Upon entering the role he discovered that, rather than the councillors running the bureaucracy, it was the bureaucracy that ran the councillors. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 2:25 The Deep State in Council 7:58 Dilution of Democracy 10:29 The recalcitrant Bureaucracy 11:39 Labor rigging the game 14:10 4 years to plant trees 19:...

Tom Volcanis interviews Professor Gigi Foster - senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute and co-author of ‘The Great Covid Panic’ - about a range of topics related to Australia’s love affair with all things government, including the current perception of the government’s disastrous Covid policies and actions. 0:00 Introduction 1:26 Current perception of the Covid response 4:48 Model based projec...

My guest for Episode 8 is Victorian Libertarian Party lead senate candidate, Jordan Dittloff. Jordan’s perspective, passion, policies and personality should be a winning combination, if he can get his message through the corrupt Australian mainstream media. So, in this discussion we get stuck into the ugly realities facing Australia, starting with the lying media. We then move onto the pervasive o...

In this episode, Liberty Itch writers, James Hol, (former senator) David Leyonhjelm and I discuss libertarian concepts that each has written about. We reached absolutely no conclusions whatsoever. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Introduction 2:15 Government enforced morality 56:44 Foreign wars 1:11:10 Non-aggression principle 1:21:20 Libertarian hedonism 1:31:31 The Social Contract. Get full access to Liberty Itc...

Warren is a Chinese national who escaped(?) communist China, and has now been living in Australia for 12 years. Warrens story, in of itself is obviously fascinating. What did he do to get in trouble with the Chinese government? What did they do to him? How did he get out? What about his family? But I was also interested in a genuine, first hand, truthful critique of China and the Chinese governmen...

Senator David Leyonhjelm is the guest for episode 5 of the Liberty Itch podcast. David has been at the forefront of Australia's gun control debate. He has written 2 books on the topic with a third on the way. He is well known for his libertarian stance and he's consistently challenged Australia's strict firearm laws, arguing they infringe on citizens' rights to self-defense and recreation, which t...

Senator Bob Day was one of Australia's most successful builders. After being named South Australian Entrepreneur of the Year and receiving an Order of Australia for his housing affordability advocacy, Bob's journey led him to the Senate. Ever since he has been arguing and advocating for Australians to be given more freedom to decide their own workplace arrangements, and for government to get out o...

Jim is a Scientist, farmer, decorated public servant, and soon to be Libertarian Party senator. For years Jim has been at the front line in the, unfortunately, losing battle against government for the property rights of regular Australian’s. In this episode Jim told me about what is actually happening with the so-called green energy projects in rural australia, along with many other fascinating st...

Jonathan Cole is a libertarian political philosopher, Liberty Itch contributor and host of the Political Animals podcast. In this episode, I ask Jonathan to provide an overview of the various ‘flavours’ of libertarian theory and how they might apply in Australia. You can follow Jonathan on Substack , YouTube and X . TIMESTAMPS: SECTION 1 0.54 What is libertarianism? 2.41 What are the denominations...