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Free Speech Matters Episode 6: Australia’s online safety tzar exposed cheating with Dr. Reuben Kirkham

Sara Gon interviews Dr. Reuben Kirkham, a director of Free Speech Union Australia, which won a case against the eSafety [online] Commissioner of Australia. The Commissioner was found to have been illegally taking down social media posts!

Free speech − that old chestnut. Again

Steven Boykie Sidley discusses the global trend in the West - on the right or left - freedom of expression has been the worst affected aspect of democracy. He warns that no matter our political preferences, we ignore this trend at our peril.

Press release: Proposal to ban foreign funding of NGOs a red herring – FSU SA

Repeated attempts have been made to restrict the activities and views of NGOs by, inter alia, interfering with their funding. Why is the African Transformation Movement introducing a private member's bill to ban foreign funding for NGOs? It's neither necessary nor desirable.

How Woke activism destroyed UCT’s Professor Bongani Mayosi

The destructively judgmental element of Wokeism at UCT in the turbulent Fallist period claimed the life by suicide of the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the most decent of men, Professor Bongani Mayosi. Richard Wilkinson reflects on the man and the moral failures exhibited by some of his colleagues in the name of virtual signalling.

Press release from FSU Australia: The eSafety Commissioner's latest legal loss (including serious judicial criticism)

FSU Australia scores a win against the eSafety Commissioner of Australia.The Commissioner was found to have been illegally taking down social media posts! A tribunal has found the eSafety Office has been operating outside the law by sending informal takedown notices to social media platforms. The informal takedowns meant the original poster was unaware they had their post removed & stripped them of their legal right to appeal the takedown.

The return of free speech

Simon Lincoln Reader welcomes Donald Trump's executive order to restore free speech which protects people with objectionable or pathetic views. And says that is exactly the way it should be.

Ruminations on the "Truth" (Part 2)

In Part 2 of this series, Terence Corrigan discusses how people and societies can protect themselves from misinformation, and how they should genuinely honour the concept of "truth", both individually and collectively.

Ruminations on “Truth” (Part 1)

Our public conversation is dominated by narrative, by emotion and the heady lure of perceived virtue. In appropriating the concept to truth, as has been done in South Africa it delivered the country to something of a post-truth world long before Donald Trump’s name appeared on a ballot half a world away. Terence Corrigan, Project & Publications Manager at the Institute of Race Relations analyses the narration of our conversation. This is the 1st of a 2 part series.