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Australia’s rank in the World Press Freedom Index has plummeted from 25 to 39 this year. Reasons given for the decline include “ultra-concentrated media ownership” and “growing official pressure”. The World Press Freedom Index is compiled yearly by the media watchdog organisation, Reporters Without Borders. [...]

TO: The Australian Colleges and Associations of Medicine, Health, and Science, and All Australian Federal, State, and Territory Senators and Members of Parliament Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that I introduce you and your respective organisations to the Australian Medical Professionals Society. This [...]

Medical practitioners and healthcare workers are under pressure to conform to the government narrative on public health, especially regarding COVID-19 vaccination. Their freedom of conscience and freedom of speech have been heavily compromised, affecting standards of care for patients. No one wants to believe that [...]

The social media regime Meta has banned Caldron Pool from Instagram and permanently suspended the personal Facebook and Instagram accounts of the website’s founder and editor. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, disabled the accounts yesterday without warning, noting a violation of the [...]

Will banning the swastika really help eliminate antisemitism and fascism? Or will it simply encourage those who subscribe to such hateful views to dig in their heels? Furthermore, what's to stop the government in future from censoring other symbols, which may not currently fit the [...]

Putin moves to squelch any murmurs of dissent against his invasion of Ukraine, trampling on religious freedom and free speech. Biden is not far behind. Any and all in-country criticism of Putin’s aggression in Ukraine is now branded unlawful. A new article under 20.3.3 of [...]

Biden’s new “Disinformation Governance Board” is the stuff of dystopian novels. How will his partisan government be able to provide objective "fact-checking" facilities? It is just a means to control the flow of information in accordance with the Democrats' agenda. When much of the media [...]

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has struck a deal to buy Twitter for $61.4 billion dollars in what could be a positive development for free speech on social media. This morning, the social media world awoke to the news that Elon Musk, a tech [...]

Is cancel culture under threat? Billionaire Elon Musk and the New York Times have both spoken out on the necessity of free speech in a democracy. Unless you live under a rock, you must have heard the big news: Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, [...]

George Christensen: I've left the Liberal National Party because they didn't stand up for your freedoms -- throughout the pandemic and beyond. Last week I bade farewell to my membership of the Liberal National Party with this blunt letter to the party’s state secretary: Dear State [...]

Finally, a win for freedom of conscience and religion in Finland, in the long-drawn-out case of principled politician Päivi Räsänen. Prosecuted for a hate crime after stating Biblical views about marriage on social media, Räsänen has at long last been vindicated in a court of [...]

Facebook is ready to police online debate in the lead-up to our democratic elections. Why do we need Big Tech paternalism interfering with civil discourse in the exercise of our democratic rights? Self-regulating, technocratic leviathan Meta has announced the rollout of a massive “fact-checking” campaign [...]

Who gets to define 'misinformation'? The Australian Government, that's who — if new laws make it through parliament later this year. Here's why that's terrible news for all of us. Earlier this week, The Age reported the federal government’s plans to introduce new laws “to [...]

The Canadian government is cracking down on legitimate protestors by criminalising their words. America is following suit, labelling dissenters as "domestic terrorists". Trudeau and Biden seem to have scant regard for democracy.

Despite no violence during three weeks of peaceful demonstrations by truckers, Canada’s Prime Minister has invoked war powers and expanded terrorist financing laws to stamp out all protest of his government’s vaccine mandates. Trudeau’s decision is at once ironic and despotic — a high price [...]

Our correspondent reflects on the alarming similarities between the implementation of the one-child policy in China, and the imposition of heavy-handed public health policies in Australia. People are being driven by fear to comply with state control over their bodies. Many of you have heard [...]

Is there justified uproar about the podcast interview by George Christensen on the topic of coronavirus vaccines? Let us examine the facts. Federal MP for Queensland George Christensen’s podcast Conservative One is back, but not everyone is happy about it. In his new series called [...]

Djokovic made mistakes and he declined the Covid-19 vaccine, but that is not why he was deported. Australia’s Immigration Minister sent Novak home for thinking the wrong things about mandatory vaccination. It is a frightful precedent for the government to set. Margaret Court. Israel Folau. [...]

Nowadays, a counter-opinion sucks the oxygen out of the room. Is it possible to disagree strongly without taking it personally? How can we promote civil discourse and debate if interlocutors keep being offended by mere differences of opinion? People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. [...]

How are we to wade through the conflicting information in today's world? Firstly, be wary of those who push a narrative with no tolerance for debate or dissent. We live in an age of information overload, and with things like the internet, we have zillions [...]