The Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance & Australian Libertarian Society, with the support of over a dozen international pro-liberty partners, are delighted to invite you to a world first: a digital 24 hour conference bringing together over 100 speakers & thousands of activists for the biggest virtual liberty marathon the world has ever seen!
No matter what country you are in, no matter what timezone, tune in for the 8th Annual Friedman Conference which will be the biggest and best pro-liberty event of 2020!
Speakers
Professor David Friedman
David Director Friedman is an American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist. He is known for his textbook writings on microeconomics and the libertarian theory of anarcho-capitalism, which is the subject of his most popular book, The Machinery of Freedom.
Besides The Machinery of Freedom, he has authored several other books and articles, including Price Theory: An Intermediate Text (1986), Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters (2000), Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life (1996), and Future Imperfect (2008).
Dave Rubin
Dave Rubin's journey from a left leaning progressive to a free thinking classical liberal has been quite an adventure. As a gay married man living in America, Dave spent the majority of his adult life subscribing to a certain political belief system based primarily on his immutable characteristics. Fed up with the mainstream media narrative and click-bait news, Dave decided to open up about his awakening, for all to see. He came to realize that no person or idea should be expected to join a side, but rather they should embrace their status as an individual.
He now feels that the modern left has lost its way by taking political correctness and groupthink to a dangerous level, distracting from the true American dream of the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.
Senator James Paterson Senator
James Paterson is a Liberal Senator for Victoria. First elected in March 2016 at age 28, Senator Paterson is the youngest ever Liberal Senator. During his time in the Senate, he has fought for free speech and religious liberty, defended Australia’s sovereignty, opposed radical constitutional change, and prosecuted the case for economic reform.
He is the Chair of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, which oversees the work of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. He also chairs the Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee, which has oversight of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Department of Finance, and their agencies.
Amanda Jane Stoker
Is an Australian politician and lawyer who has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing Queensland since 21 March 2018, when she was appointed as a replacement for the Senate place of retiring Attorney-General George Brandis.
Stoker studied law at Sydney University, graduating with first-class honours, and began her career as a clerk and solicitor in Brisbane with MinterEllison. She served as a Commonwealth prosecutor, as well as a judge's associate to Philip McMurdo in the Supreme Court of Queensland and to Ian Callinan in the High Court of Australia.
Leading up to the 2009 state election, Stoker sought pre-selection for the electoral district of Cleveland, which she lost to Mark Robinson who went on to win the seat. She was a Senate candidate with the LNP at the 2013 federal election.
Stephen Hicks Stephen
Hicks is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and Senior Scholar at The Atlas Society. He is author of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholargy, 2004), Nietzsche and the Nazis (Ockham’s Razor, 2010), and The Art of Reasoning: Readings for Logical Analysis (W. W. Norton Co., 1998), and Entrepreneurial Living (CEEF, 2016).
He has published in Business Ethics Quarterly, Review of Metaphysics, and The Wall Street Journal. His writings have been translated into sixteen languages. He has been Visiting Professor of Business Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., a Visiting Fellow at the Social Philosophy Policy Center in Bowling Green, Ohio, and Visiting Professor at the University of Kasimir the Great, Poland. His B.A. and M.A. degrees are from the University of Guelph, Canada. His Ph.D. in Philosophy is from Indiana University, Bloomington. In 2010, he won his university’s Excellence in Teaching Award.