Rowling, Atwood unite for free speech
Despite being on opposite sides of the transgender row, they are among 150 leading minds to voice concern about public debate.
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Standing up to cancel culture
Colonial Brewing’s Lawrence Dowd has handled the cancel culture attacks on his beer brand brilliantly, but here’s four more things he can do.
Cancel bullies no better than Taliban
You know you’re living in George Orwell’s world when speech is considered violence and actual violence is considered speech.
UQ student launches $3.5m legal action
Drew Pavlou, who was suspended over his criticism of Chinese influence on campus, files action against uni.
Uni suspends Pavlou after pro-Hong Kong activism
Student activist calls his punishment by UQ after he criticised Chinese Communist Party influence ‘a travesty.’
China pressure causes uni to lose its way
The University of Queensland has got it badly wrong over student Drew Pavlou’s possible expulsion.
Anti-China student walks out on ‘kangaroo court’
Drew Pavlou, facing expulsion from the University of Queensland over his activism criticising Chinese influence, says he’s willing to take his fight all the way to the High Court.
Uni sacrifices student for China romance
A 20-year-old philosophy student campaigning against uni’s links with Chinese Communist Party subject to assault, online hate, death threats.
Calls for resignation over Cook hypocritical
The Victorian health official who compared COVID-19 to Cook 1770 should have known better, but she has a right to free speech.
Uni censors excel themselves
Today, the most brazen opponents of free speech within universities are those who control student unions.
QUT student complains to Human Rights Commission
The university told the campus IPA representative his “brand’’ didn’t align with its values.
Beware speech limits
Companies cannot be allowed to prevent staff airing opinions where there is no intention to harass others.
Stop complaining and start fighting
Britain’s Free Speech Union is GetUp for normal people who find themselves hunted by the PC mob.
Universities in decline, but history offers hope
For too long, a reversal of the democratic order has been the first order of business on campus.
Moment of truth for campus free speech
Like almost every regulatory body, tertiary chiefs have become captured by left-wing, misnamed ‘progressive’ types.
Freedom of speech is not freedom to rant
Universities should enable a free flow of ideas that are based on knowledge, discipline and that adhere to ethical requirements.
Uni chief’s freedom warning
Don’t rely on government regulation to protect academic freedom and freedom of speech, warns Griffith University chief.
Free thought has no uni value
What started as a minor drama on a Queensland campus has become a major story that demands our attention.
Bureaucrats are not political pawns
Revelations Tony Abbott and other conservatives were pursued at the behest of Labor represent a failure of democracy.
Folau speaks amid legal threat
Israel Folau spoke publicly for the first time since signing with the Catalans Dragons, as a rival club threatens legal action.
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