Bio

Kirk McKenzie is a partner in a Sydney law firm. He is President of the Labor Party’s North Sydney Branch and is Chair of the Finance and Economic Policy Committee of the NSW Branch of the ALP.

Kirk McKenzie's contributions:

Federalism: a bulldozer job

The state slice of Australia's total tax revenue hasn't just shrunk; it’s been bulldozed. Kirk McKenzie thinks it's time the states stopped taking it lying down

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• Real world economics

'Great Charters' in the States

Kirk McKenzie considers the moves afoot within the States to introduce Charters of Rights. He argues that these will help not hinder the national campaign for a Human Rights Act. Introducing rights protections at a State level would provide much needed protection and may reinvigorate State politics which has become obsessed with service provision and law and order.

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• Human Rights