The 5th ALS Friedman Conference

The biggest and best liberty conference in the Asia Pacific Region is back - and with a new format designed to take #Friedman17 to a whole new level of awesomeness!

Join over 300 of the best and brightest libertarian (and liberty-curious) thinkers, academics, and activists for a week of intellectual stimulation, education, debate and FUN!

This year, we are proud to announce a new format which will go beyond simply speakers and panels, and include interactive activities, competions, debates and an 'un-conference' session so that everyone can get the most out of this expirience.

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International speakers include:

* Grover Norquist (Americans for Tax Reform)
* Ezra Levant (The Rebel Media, Canada)
* Nick Gillespie (Reason Magazine)
* Michael Munger (Duke University)
* Avens O'Brien
* Judd Weiss
* Jordan Williams (New Zealand Taxpayers' Union)
* Zoltán Kész (Hungarian Parliament)
* Matthew Sinclair (UK)
* Rory Broomfield (The Freedom Association, UK)
* Naomi Brockwell (expat Aussie; now at Stossel)
* Sam Bowman (Adam Smith Institute, UK)
* Jenesa Jeram (The New Zealand Initiative)
* John Fund (The Wall Street Journal)
* Danny Duchamp (Youtube)

And of course, we have plenty of excellent Australian speakers, including:

* Senator Cory Bernardi (Conservative Party)
* Senator David Leyonhjelm (Liberal Democrats)
* Prof Wolfgang Kasper
* Prof Jeff Bennett (ANU)
* Dr Joe Kosterich
* Dr Lorraine Finley (Murdoch University)
* Dr Anthony Dillon (Austrlian Catholic University)
* Daisy Cousens (Quadrant)
* Mark Hornshaw (University of Notre Dame)
* Mark Latham (former federal ALP leader)
* Ross Cameron (former federal Liberal MP)
* Senator Malcolm Roberts (One Nation)
* Dr Chris Berg (RMIT)
* Dr John Humphreys (ALS)
* Dr Stuart Hatch (ALS)
* Dr Tanveer Ahmed
* Rob Carling (CIS)
* Calum Thwaits (victim of 18c)
* Gabe Buckley (Liberal Democrats)
* Graham Park (Shooters Union of Australia)
* Independent Man (who will be giving up his anonymity)
* James Fox Higgins (The Rational Rise)
* Darren Nelson (One Nation staffer)
... and many more.

Once again the Institute of Public Affairs are supporting the Friedman Conference, sending up Simon Breheny (2014 Young Libertarian of the Year), Darcy Allen, Andrew Bushnell, and the always-interesting Professor Sinclair Davidson.

The Australia and New Zealand Students for Liberty Conference 2017 have also helped to coordinate the Friday schedule, bringing in speakers such as Eva Gundelach, Bianca Cobby, Ahmed Sulliman (current SFL chair), and Andie Moore.

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Ticket sales are now open at www.friedman17.org and believe us - the FIFTH Australian Libertarian Society Friedman Conference is one you just CAN NOT MISS!

For more information, please contact John Humphreys (ALS President), Tim Andrews (ATA Executive Director), Stuart Hatch (ALS Executive Director), Celeste Arenas (ATA Operations Director) and/or Ahmed Suliman (SFL Chair).