Greg Barns is a barrister, spokesperson for the Prison Action and Reform Group Inc and the Australian Lawyers Alliance. He tweets at @barnsgreg.
He is the author of What's Wrong with the Liberal Party? Selling the Australian Government and co-author of An Australian Republic.
He was campaign manager for the WikiLeaks Party in the 2013 federal election, but is not a member of the party.
He has worked for a number of Liberal leaders and ministers from 1989-1999 and ran the 1999 Republic Referendum campaign for Malcolm Turnbull and the Australians Republican Movement. Greg was also subsequently chair of the ARM.
Greg lives in Hobart.
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