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A veteran’s warning from the Menzies era resurfaces: vague “hate speech” laws empower elites, erode free speech, and threaten Australia’s democratic trust in ordinary citizens.

Nation First looks into how the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 criminalises belief, punishes influence, and puts ordinary Australians at risk for speaking their minds. This is how free speech dies.

After being dropped from the Adelaide Writers Festival, Randa Abdel-Fattah cries censorship—despite a record of silencing Jewish and ex-Muslim ideological opponents who didn't fit her progressive stance. The hypocrisy is hard to miss.

A 2025 ACN report warns Australia is sliding toward religious freedom concern, citing government overreach, speech restrictions, lawfare, and rising antisemitism despite an overall cautiously positive outlook.

As familiar words are redefined for political ends, navigating today’s cultural debates requires discernment, historical memory, and a refusal to surrender truth to fashionable language. Beware the semantic quicksand!

Violent antisemitism is resurfacing across the West, not from the fringes but amid progressive politics, cultural Marxism, and a growing refusal to confront uncomfortable truths.

An examination of UK abortion decriminalisation, disability discrimination, and late-term practice, arguing it fuels eugenics, endangers disabled babies, and erodes ethical limits under the guise of choice.

Supporters of the under 16s social media ban often speak as if age verification is a narrow, one-off tool. It isn't. We are sleepwalking into a surveillance state.

The European Commission (EC) has fined social media company X for AU$210 million after it found the platform in violation of the European Union’s 2022 Digital Services Act. But Musk, X and multiple US government officials maintain this is an attack on free speech and an unwarranted attempt at control.

After weeks of prayer and pressure, 18-year-old Egyptian Christian Bola Adel Naguib has been released, highlighting ongoing abuses against believers detained for expressing their faith online.

With Washington now classifying state-funded abortion, child castration, and coercive DEI policies as human rights violations, Australia may face unexpected scrutiny over practices that have long harmed ordinary citizens and gone unreported in our national media.

A planned Parliament House screening of Pauline Hanson’s new satirical film was abruptly banned, sparking fresh accusations of political censorship and escalating tensions over free expression.

Canada’s revived “hate speech” bills could criminalise lawful expression, threaten online evangelisation, and expand state power, critics warn, arguing that subjective definitions risk censorship, wrongful convictions, and chilled religious debate.

The Albanese Government’s proposed Digital Duty of Care threatens to impose sweeping online censorship, surveillance, and Digital ID controls, using “online safety” language to justify unprecedented state power over Australians’ digital lives.

Kirralie Smith, a staunch defender of free speech and biological truth, faces massive fines and forced re-education for questioning men in women’s sports. Her battle highlights how laws and ideology are increasingly weaponised to silence dissent, redefine reality, and undermine parental rights.

They didn't want you to hear this. They shut down debate in the Senate. They tried to gag Senator Malcolm Roberts. They wanted to ram through the creation of the Australian CDC without questions, without resistance, and without one shred of accountability.

Banned, censored, and branded a “political extremist”, US comedian Shayne Smith is turning his surreal clash with Australia’s bureaucracy into a new stand-up special: "How to Get Banned from Australia".

Australia lacks, at a national level, entrenched protections of freedom of speech. Our role as elected representatives should be to provide and sustain that right.

In a surprise move, Europe’s Organisation for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) has officially acknowledged the existence of anti-Christian bigotry. Albeit somewhat limpwristedly.

Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen faces her third trial, now in Finland's Supreme Court, for quoting the Bible on marriage, highlighting global concerns over free speech and religious liberty.