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Chris Elston, known online as Billboard Chris, and aide Lois McLatchie Miller, left, in Sydney earlier this year.

The activist, Elon Musk and Trump’s free speech gripe with Australia

Lawyers spent days going back and forth about a post on X earlier this year. Now the case has caught the attention of the Trump administration.

  • Michael Koziol

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Hundreds of demonstrators gather on Cambridge Common during a rally at the historic park in Cambridge, Mass Massachussetts on Saturday calling on Harvard University to resist what organisers described as attempts by President Donald Trump to influence the institution.

‘No takeover’: Harvard refuses to surrender independence after Trump threat

Trump’s demands include ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs, changing admissions and hiring, and curbing the “power” of certain students, faculty members.

  • Janet Lorin and Brooke Sutherland
Peter Greste (left) and actor Richard Roxburgh, who portrays him in the movie The Correspondent.

They made a movie about my prison nightmare. I watched it through my fingers

As Richard Roxburgh stars as me in a feature film, I confront a disturbing reality: more journalists are behind bars today than when I was incarcerated in Egypt more than a decade ago.

  • Peter Greste
Badiucao’s Here and Now work in Hong Kong.

‘No trace’: Dissident artist told his work has been removed from Hong Kong billboard

Australia-based artist Badiucao said his four-second video work was designed to test “the freedom-of-speech situation in Hong Kong”.

  • Elizabeth Flux
Badiucao’s Here and Now work in Hong Kong.

Artist tests freedom of speech in Hong Kong with daring billboard work

A video of the Australia-based Chinese dissident Badiucao silently saying “you must take part in revolution” has been playing since March 28.

  • Elizabeth Flux
Maxie Allen was arrested after complaining about his daughter’s school on WhatsApp.

British parents arrested after complaining about daughter’s school on WhatsApp

Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine were reportedly detained by six officers in front of their three-year-old daughter after posting in a parent group chat.

  • Will Bolton
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In this image taken from security footage, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Massachusetts.

‘Looked like a kidnapping’: Student’s arrest in Trump crackdown caught on camera

The 30-year-old doctoral student was walking to meet friends for dinner when a man grabbed her on the footpath.

  • Jake Offenhartz, Kathy Mccormack and Michael Casey
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Money talks, and defending free speech now comes at a cost

We live in an extraordinary moment in history in which boundaries of free speech have to be set and policed by ordinary people all the time.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Protesters marched outside Columbia University on Monday demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil.

‘First arrest of many’: Graduate faces deportation as Trump cracks down on student protests

The case marks a dramatic escalation of the US president’s efforts to curb what he calls “antisemitic and anti-American activity” on university campuses.

  • Michael Koziol
Antisemitism and Islamophobia are nothing new in this country. But community and political leaders can help keep them in check by toning down their own rhetoric.

Major party impasse threatens to unravel proposed hate speech laws

Islamic Council of Victoria spokesman Adel Salman said the political defence should never have been dropped from the government’s anti-vilification legislation.

  • Chip Le Grand

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