Kenelm Tonkin is the founder of Liberty Itch and, appropriately, the guest for Episode 1 of the Liberty Itch Podcast. Kenelm explains the reason and goals for Liberty Itch along with providing fascinating insights into the history and current direction of Libertarianism in Australian Politics.

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0:00 – Introduction

0:58 – What is Liberty Itch?

2:47 – Is libertarianism a “centre-right” ideology?

5:17 – What most voters think libertarian is

9:12 – Example of how libertarianism can sound leftwing

10:15 – Defining libertarianism

12:06 – Ideologies and the 3 philosophies which compete

14:21 – On the socialists’ hijack of the word “liberalism”

19:43 – 7 Hallmarks of libertarianism and libertarianism’s opponents

22:40 – On socialism and communism

27:05 – On conservatism, 2 tugboats and a cargo ship, and The Overton Window

36:36 – Libertarians as agents of change and progress

42:30 – What capitalism looks like

54:27 – The morality of libertarianism

59:08 – John Locke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and The Harm Principle

1:04:45 – Frédéric Bastiat, David Hume, Thomas Jefferson and the Lockean US Declaration of Independence

1:09:25 – Alexis de Tocqueville and his “flock of timid and industrious animals”

1:13:24 – Lord Acton, Montesquieu, Thomas Paine, Jean-Baptiste Say, Willliam Gladstone, Lysander Spooner, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Robert Nozick, Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman

1:17:14 – Moving forward by offering an alternate vision

1:20:33 – A libertarian strategy for the public square, Senator David Leyonhjelm, David Limbrick, Caroline White

1:26:50 – Evangelising libertarianism by directly contrasting against socialism and conservatism on policy: economics, taxation, energy, education, censorship

1:36:42 – How to revivify civilisation

1:40:38 – How the Libertarian Party wins

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