The John Hyde Archives
Historic archive of articles and newspaper columns written by former Australian politician John Hyde OAM.
Individual Rights
Labels - an easy way to discredit but they count
- A more relevant classification of politics should be whether you believe that choice should be exercised by individuals or to be exercised on their behalf.
- Vested interests are only wrong when governments pander to them.
Democracy & Property Rights
Individual Rights Law Politics
- Governments when they revoke property rights change the value of whatever underlying property the rights were attached to.
- The right to trade one's efforts is as important as a right to free speech and is even more relevant in everyday life.
- Many politicians don't understand the principles that they violate and the harm the arises.
The Eternal Nanny
- Society gravitates towards the least regulated activities
- Even our bodies have become the property of the state.
- Governments offer us a security blanket that is useless and prevents us from developing survival skills.
Thomas Sowell & Walter Williams
- Sowell & Williams argue that racism, discrimination & poverty are minimised where markets are the freest and are worsened by government intervention.
- Affirmative action has created an action not to hire groups.
- Sowell has insisted that he has faith not in the market but rather the evidence about the market.
Who's a liberal?
- Traditional young liberal concern for human rights, environment and discrimination is in good hands.
- The spread of income level is narrowest in societies which are the freest and the disadvantaged the least oppressed where privilege is not maintained by law.
Keep the Czar far away from us.
Individual Rights Law Politics
- Liberty is freedom from the only legal organisation that is permitted to use force (The government)
Sir Joh's Industrial Laws
Industrial Relations Individual Rights
- There should be a recognised freedom of employment in society.
When Elephants Mate
- Consensus should never be used to replace a clear legal framework that protects the rights of the individual.
Helping the Poor
- Private choices (i.e. Single Parenthood) must be subject to influences which encourage the acceptance of individual responsibility.
Junior Employees - Special Orders
Individual Rights Industrial Relations
- Minimum wage prevents potential employees from negotiating with employers.
- The right to determine one's own labour is a basic human right.
The Accord, Labour Market Regulation
Regulation Industrial Relations Individual Rights
- Only soft approaches that are based in individual liberty will work for labour deregulation.
The Real IR Debate
Protectionism Industrial Relations Business Individual Rights
- Being able to opt out of a wage award allows the parties to come to an agreement rather than having something forced upon them.
Recovery Alone Was Not Enough
Industrial Relations Business Individual Rights
- To reduced unemployment, we need to free labour and capital from government and the unions.
American Morality
- The degree to which basic human rights are respected by a nation is the degree of its morality.
The Opposition's I.R. Policy
Protectionism Industrial Relations Individual Rights
- The Liberal policy will give all employees the right not to join a union.
What Is the New Right?
Politics Industrial Relations Individual Rights Taxation Fiscal Policy
- Our wishes are to reduce union power, unfair business privileges, balance the government budget, reduced public expenditure and taxes, stopping the middle class from being ripped off, restore competiveness and protection of the family.
About
John Hyde OAM is a former Australian politician. He was elected as the member for the Division of Moore in Western Australia for the Liberal Party.
John Hyde OAM is the author of Dry: In Defence of Economic Freedom.