Freedom of speech
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- Press freedom
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
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‘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
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
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
‘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
- Opinion
- Opinion
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
‘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
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
- Opinion
- Visual art
How art was ransacked by ineptitude, political pandering and confected outrage
In dumping a fine artist such as Khaled Sabsabi from the Venice Biennale, Creative Australia has undermined the public’s faith in the capacity of art to open minds.
- Liz Ann Macgregor
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- Trump's White House
Trump bans major US news agency for refusing to rename Gulf of Mexico
The US president has been accused of violating the First Amendment after indefinitely barring The Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One.
- Michael Koziol
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