NewsBite

Censorship

Advertisement
Anthony Albanese will go toe-to-toe with Adam Bandt’s Greens in Parliament this week over Labor’s agenda.

No compromise: Labor targets Greens in election on up to 20 bills

Labor has pulled its misinformation crackdown and won’t put forward gambling reform this week but is pushing the Greens to accept its agenda on up to 20 other bills unchanged.

  • David Crowe

Latest

Multinational tech firms are being targeted by a swathe of new laws.

Big Tech didn’t like Biden. Trump won’t be any better for Google & Co

The Biden administration has used antitrust legislation to target the technology giants, even seeking to break up Google. Trump’s nominees to key posts overseeing the tech sector won’t be much friendlier.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
State Librarian and State Library WA chief executive Catherine Clark.

WA’s most senior librarian gears up to fight censorship

In the wake of a campaign by a conservative advocacy group to restrict access to two sexual education books to over-16s, the State Library said it would continue to support and defend intellectual freedoms.

  • Hamish Hastie
Kanye West, known as Ye, watches an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles.

China’s censors are letting Kanye West perform there. His fans are amazed

Why would the notoriously prickly Chinese government let in the notoriously provocative Ye? The answer may lie in China’s struggling economy.

  • Vivian Wang
Our cultural institutions are having to decide to what extent, if any, they are platforms for political discussion.

When art and politics collide: The battles tearing our cultural bodies apart

Sackings, boycotts, sponsorship withdrawals: arts organisations across the country are in turmoil. So who has the right to say what?

  • Kerrie O'Brien

What surprises about the Middle East culture wars? The left and right have swapped sides

Culture wars have many fronts but the Israel/Hamas conflict has supercharged unlikely battles over free speech, discrimination and the nature of protest.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Advertisement
Elon Musk Pavel Durov

The free-speech billionaires are losing the war

Elon Musk and Pavel Durov have been asking for trouble. It has found them.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

Elon Musk saying civil war is inevitable is not inciting violence. Here’s why

Beware the online-harm brigade, or we’ll have police on our doorsteps as fast as we can say boo online.

  • Josh Szeps
Melbourne-based author Amie Kaufman.

‘Copycat’ book bans: How US activists are impacting Australian libraries

Best-selling Australian author Amie Kaufman, whose books have been banned in the US, is warning against importing a culture war over literature.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Councillor Steve Christou says he has not read the book he wants to ban from council libraries.

Book ban uncovers uncomfortable truths for Labor in Sydney’s west

The decision of a Labor councillor to vote in favour of a motion to ban books about same-sex parenting has created a headache for the ALP in western Sydney.

  • Alexandra Smith

Original URL: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/topic/censorship-1n78