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Julie Inman Grant’s sweeping eSafety powers are under fire from US lawmakers, who’ve summoned her to Washington DC to explain why she’s censoring the speech of Americans.

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.

European watchdog OIDAC reports a sharp rise in violent anti-Christian attacks and church arsons in 2024, urging the EU to address growing hostility and legal discrimination against Christians.

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.

The NSW Government’s proposed LGBTIQA+ Inclusion Strategy risks embedding gender ideology across public life, FamilyVoice warns, urging a rethink to protect parental rights, free speech, and biological reality.

Dragged into a tribunal for defending biological reality, Jasmine Sussex’s case now tests Australia’s boundaries on science, speech, and whether experts can voice concerns without being silenced.

Atheist Patrick John Lee wins a landmark UK tribunal ruling, defending his fact-based criticisms of Islam and free speech against professional sanctions over 84 tweets.

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.

Across Japan, Argentina and Poland – three very different countries with very different histories – we're seeing a quiet but unmistakable pro-family turn. It's a simple but powerful idea: when families thrive, the nation prospers.

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.

Australia is experiencing a significant shift in its view of morality. The “gay conversion therapy” laws now Australia-wide are the exemplar of this. The prevailing narrative grounded in mechanistic thinking has abandoned God and the ethical code embodied in a Christian worldview.

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.

New laws lower the threshold for hate speech to such an extent that a person could be criminalised for what authorities decide their words "might" lead to. This is a bad law. It is anti-free speech and anti-Australian.

In a recent popular essay, American cultural critic Helen Andrews warned that the feminisation of workplaces, academia and law presents an existential threat to civilisation. Is she correct? And if so, what is the solution?

Prof. Patrick Parkinson’s "Unshaken Allegiance" is a courageous, insightful call for Christians to live faithfully amid shrinking religious freedoms—combining legal expertise, biblical conviction, and practical wisdom for today’s cultural challenges.

Declan Mansfield was forced out of his job as a library worker for the City of Armidale after refusing to attend a politically charged DEI training. He is now fighting for freedom of conscience in Western Australia.

Two Spanish priests facing jail time for free speech deemed offensive to Muslims were acquitted last week. A Spanish court ruled that articles written by the pair for Alerta Digital did not amount to a hate crime.

Egypt’s Islamic hate speech laws have claimed yet another victim. Christian author and apologist, Dr Augustine Samaan, was detained in early October. His only crime? Criticising Islam.

If Americans can ditch the Woke left and embrace liberty, merit, and common sense, then so too can the rest of the world, including Australia. The importance of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th President of the United States is impossible to overstate.