Freedom of Speech
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Benedict XVI summarised the Church’s essential life thus: it worships […]
May 30, 2020
7 mins
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The contemporary revival of censorship is far more wide-ranging than its typical expression in the past, when its all-but-exclusive focus was on sexual matters. Now you only need to quote selected passages from the Bible (of all books), as Israel Folau can tell you
November 15, 2019
17 mins
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Australia is a multi-faith society where people of different faiths […]
February 28, 2019
15 mins
The latest
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Tommy Robinson was released this week from a British prison after his contempt of court conviction was not merely quashed but scathingly condemned on appeal. Here, with videos and a link to that ruling, is the genesis and gist of England's disgrace
August 4, 2018
7 mins
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The Danish cartoon controversy prompted a spectacular failure of will and principle in the West, the commentator tells Quadrant. 'First they come for the cartoonists, ultimately they move on to everybody else. The provocations ... get lamer and lamer. We are losing our world.'
May 11, 2017
28 mins
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Australia by the 1990s had emerged as one of the most diverse, tolerant and cohesive multicultural nations in the world. Sir Robert Menzies would have objected to 18C not on the grounds of its laudable objective to combat racism but on its inevitable effect of curtailing free speech
March 20, 2017
19 mins
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Britain's wartime leader defied Hitler and preserved at the cost of blood and treasure the sceptre'd isle of Magna Carta and hard-won liberties. How now is that we see this legacy of freedoms being so meekly surrendered?
August 27, 2014
7 mins
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When the US Nazi Party paraded in the American town with that nation's highest concentration of Holocaust survivors it was more than a victory for free speech. Thanks to the unfettered debate surrounding the event, a gang of posturing, publicity-seeking fools were revealed for what they are. That's the beauty of free speech: it works
July 25, 2014
11 mins
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The reason Section 18C must be scrapped could not be more simple: politically-motivated lawfare makes the price of free speech far too high. The so-called right of others not to be offended restricts our freedom to fully and freely discuss subjects of national importance
July 9, 2014
19 mins
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The profound analytical and moral confusion that afflicts Western political […]
July 1, 2014
16 mins
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Disgruntled activist-journalists might prefer us to believe that we are neither free nor competent to express our views for ourselves -- because then we must look to them to speak, protest, vandalise, hector, bully and obfuscate on our behalf.
June 10, 2014
15 mins
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Progress is a funny thing. Some 60 years ago, the ABC radio soap opera 'Blue Hills' tackled the same issues of racial identity that landed Andrew Bolt in so much trouble. Somehow, in our so-called age of tolerance, it has become so much easier to apply the gag
May 19, 2014
6 mins