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 still stands out as one of the few sane, rational, intelligent and well-informed minds in contemporary Australian politics.

However, if you have been infected with the new right-wing woke mind-virus, you might believe John really has turned into a monster? You might believe that such a transformation is not only possible, but occurs in anybody who asks a legitimate question about what is going on in Gaza?

John caused aneurysm’s among sufferers of the right-wing woke mind-virus recently when he not only questioned the situation in Gaza, he attended a protest against the genocide there. His actions - walking in a protest and talking amicably to people - blew up the internet with abuse and criticism.

So I spoke to John about what he was protesting for, the definition of ‘genocide’ according to the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and whether that is the situation in Gaza?

0:00 Intro

4:48 Why Did John Protest?

14:08 Qualifying a ‘Genocide’

24:27 Why is Israel exceptional?

34:52 Libertarian position on war

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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 amendments to the WHO International Health Regulations (IHR). But the WHO did not truthfully disclose what had been amended.

(NOTE: the US government just rejected the IHR amendments to avoid them applying to the US. The Australian government did not reject them; and now it is too late).

Everything about the WHO and its pandemic agreement is cloaked in dishonesty. So I spoke to an expert - James Roguski - about what is really going on.

If you enjoyed wearing 2 masks, as you drove alone to the PCR testing station, on your way to get your 75th booster, so your vaccine passport app would show a green tick, so you could enter a supermarket, during your 1 hour lockdown reprieve each day, you are going to love what the WHO has in store for the future.

If you did not care for that whole Covid episode, you should probably watch this episode of the Liberty Itch Podcast.

You can read the WHO pandemic agreement here:

https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA78/A78_10-en.pdf

And you can find James Roguski here on Substack: https://substack.com/@jamesroguski

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

9:29 Problems in 2021

13:38 IHR Deadline

16:30 Pandemic agreement

23:51 The business model

27:01 IHR Amendements

33:18 Pandemic Emergencies

45:48 Infodemics

48:50 Sovereignty

56:01 Pushing back

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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 size of the bloated bureaucracy, balanced the budget, and simultaneously improved frontline staffing and service delivery performance. In other words, he did what desperately needs to be done, nationally, in both Australia and the US.

The result of Campbell successfully removing government waste, bloat and poor performance was similar to the response given to Elon Musk and his DOGE revelations: crucifixion in the media and by the political class.

From a record-setting, landslide, 78 to 7 seat win against Labor in 2012, in the 2015 election Queenslanders swung back to the devil they knew. Labor wasted no time resuming its wasteful spending, inflating the bureaucracy, racking up debt and cancelling the hard work Queensland had just done. Like Elon, Campbell was sent to the DOGE pound for doing the critical job he was tasked to do.

So, in this episode of the Liberty Itch podcast, I ask Campbell what happened, what lessons he learned and what advice he can give to the next DOGE-r to neuter the media, bring the bureaucracy to heel, and avoid being sent to the DOGE pound?

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:07 What happened?

8:49 Slashing 14000 jobs

12:00 Opportunity for reform

16:56 Trump Effect?

17:55 Advice for the next guy

22:38 Pressure to go Green

29:09 Why can’t the boss boss?

35:32 Fraud & unaccountability

41:52 Are Aussies born socialists?

44:02 Fixing the LNP

50:07 Future for Campbell

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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 Party back toward its founding principles. In 2018 he published a book entitled ‘Make the Liberal Party Great Again’. But in 2021, after the Liberal government’s hysterical covid response, he abandoned the party to join the Liberal Democrats; now known as the Libertarian Party.

Johns inaugural speech in the NSW parliament should be considered essential viewing for all libertarians. He covers all of the big issues in Australian politics, pulling no punches, yet remaining affable throughout. The speech’s truthfulness resulted in it being banned by YouTube. However, YouTube has since revised what is ‘true’, and so the speech is available again. You can find it here…

In this podcast, John gives a fascinating and deeply thought-provoking analysis of the Australian political landscape, with powerful historical and international references, and his characteristic candidness.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

1:47 How did Labor win?

9:54 Liberal party dysfunction

16:05 Disrupting Australian politics

24:39 Freedom alliances

27:18 Misrepresentation of preferential voting

31:24 Why does the media hate freedom?

35:33 The compulsory voting problem

38:53 Destructive UN policies

50:26 Trump effect on Australian election

53:48 How will Albanese govern?

56:48 Climate change hoax

1:02:16 Freedom parties next steps

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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 brave new world where being cancelled is all too real.

Fortunately, Danny was able to self-publish ‘Cancelled’, and it is now shortlisted for the Prometheus Awards Best Novel of 2025.

‘Cancelled’ is available on Amazon in physical or digital form here…

Connect with Danny on Facebook here…

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

1:55 Inspiration for ‘Cancelled’

5:23 How to stop becoming New Brittania

7:39 Challenging dangerous ideology

9:55 Writing different genres

16:45 Competing with legends

18:18 What led you to writing?

20:35 Psychology of characters

24:04 Lockdowns and obedience

30:00 Sci-fi inspirations

35:21 Writer education

36:09 ChatGPT “writers”

41:53 Technological tyranny

44:51 Starmer, Trump, Albo & Dutton

51:20 Novels vs screenplays

53:40 Sienna - protagonist of Cancelled

55:21 Diversity

57:52 Weaponisation of words & ideas

1:10:12 Libertarianism in politics

1:16:55 British sci-fi

1:20:38 Advice to writers

1:24:10 Self publishing

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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 book ‘Good People Break Bad Laws’.

In this interview we discuss Australia’s bad laws, bad government and how to use our surprisingly good voting system to move politics back toward freedom.

Everyday, Topher is producing videos exposing the people, stories and libertarian perspectives being censored or misrepresented by the mainstream media. Follow his work on:

X: https://x.com/TopherField

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TopherField

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TopherField

Or visit:

https://topherfield.net

https://battlegroundmelbourne.com

https://goodpeoplebreakbadlaws.com

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:26 Two tests for bad laws

5:54 Source of government authority

8:38 Covid bad “laws”

10:47 National park lockouts

11:59 Dan Andrews

14:18 Permission laws

20:40 Laws undermining the law

24:13 Booze buses

26:45 Bureaucrats love impossible goals

28:40 The monetary value of life

32:57 The conspiracy

35:37 How to limit government power

38:52 Venezuela

40:35 Australian’s political sensibility

45:15 Australian’s innate libertarianism

50:18 Hurty words on Facebook

52:16 Cultural Marxism

54:54 Wokeness has peaked

58:17 Massive social swingback

1:03:39 The Trump effect

1:10:02 Truth about the Tariffs

1:16:18 Free trade

1:18:52 Expired self perception danger

1:22:45 Lessons from Venezuela

1:30:44 How to vote for freedom in Aus

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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 multiple tech platforms, immediately following the infamous Alex Jones. His dozens of documentaries and reports on YouTube had garnered millions of views over 10 years. Then YouTube deleted his entire library.

So I asked James why? Was he lying or slanderous? How does he come up with his alleged ‘conspiracy theories’? What is he saying that has governments and the media so hysterical about silencing people like him? And, how can we differentiate between a crazy conspiracy theory and good investigative journalism?

Check out the Corbett Report website: https://corbettreport.com

Check out James’s book, Reportage: https://reportagebook.com

Crisis of Science: https://corbettreport.com/sciencecrisis/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:25 What is a conspiracy theorist?

4:19 The Bilderberg conspiracy

9:55 Reportage: conspiracy tales

11:05 Do NOT do your own research?

13:27 Crazy climate change conspiracy theory

20:27 Crazy covid conspiracy theory

26:47 Early Chinese Covid collapses

30:49 Crisis of Science

36:28 9/11 conspiracy theories

46:47 How is available information ignored?

50:03 Our reliance on the internet

50:59 Decentralised online alternatives

53:37 Where to find future peace and freedom

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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

19:11 Why politics?

23:37 Why council?

29:11 Fighting the cash-ban policy

33:14 The source of unrequested bad policies

37:19 Deep state motivations

40:22 Local Government is Libertarian

45:02 Aussies’ Stockholm syndrome

47:20 The Authoritarian vs Libertarian political axis

52:52 The immigration issue

1:09:22 Australia’s low economic complexity

1:12:00 Mother of all recessions

1:13:50 Who would fight in war for Australia?

1:14:50 Social contract broken

1:22:22 Steering the ship in a better direction

1:33:21 Libertarians getting involved

1:38:38 Government in Tbilisi, Georgia

1:41:33 Australia dragged into US wars

1:50:20 Questioning power

1:51:33 Time for libertarians to fight for liberty

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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 projections

6:54 Continued support for vaccine mandates

11:01 Why is Government trusted?

15:34 Government dependence

20:30 Priority of sport

26:21 Superannuation

33:49 Stratification of Australian society

38:21 Public Education

44:41 DOGE Australia

40:00 University Industrial Complex

52:53 Perpetuation of luxury beliefs

56:05 Rubber-stamping exported degrees

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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 organised crime, the monstrous corruption of government, the dire state of the economy, the anti-nuclear agenda and whether it is even possible to make a dent in the problems?

Click here for the 2023 Discernable interview with Jordan’s backstory

Click here for the recent Discernable interview of Jordan: Government Hates You

Click here for the recent JBH Show interview of Jordan

Follow Jordan on X: https://x.com/Dittloff4Senate

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