Why Labor’s threat to free speech must be rejected
Giving the Australian Communications and Media Authority sweeping powers to curb ‘harmful speech’ is more likely to suppress truth than falsehoods.
Giving the Australian Communications and Media Authority sweeping powers to curb ‘harmful speech’ is more likely to suppress truth than falsehoods.
Islamist provocateurs and seething discontent over inequality are fanning anger in disadvantaged migrant communities.
Every principle of equal rights is breached by the voice. Reversing the arc of democratic progress, it establishes two classes of citizenship, separate and unequal, cementing that discrimination in the Constitution.
Vague statues allow anti-corruption commissions to inflict shame punishments on people who have committed no offence.
Wagner fiasco is merely the surface manifestation of the dysfunctions at the Russian regime’s heart. But that scarcely means Putin’s rule is on the verge of crumbling.
The difficulty with Gallagher lies in identifying a fundamental principle of the Westminster system she has not breached.
Every revolution in technologies has provoked calls for heavy handed regulation – which would chill progress rather than promote it.
The heroic quality of the deed, and not the moral calibre of the person who performed it, became even more pronounced once the world had experienced the horrors of total war.
Hiding behind a steam bath of emotions, the Yes side resorts to cheap moralising to induce Australians into repeating the error of 1967 – pursuing political equality by entrenching political inequality.
By stampeding to toe the party line, rather than acting as a forum where serious views contend, our rabble of academic lemmings merely prove how intensely politicised universities have become.
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