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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.

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.

Indigenous Friends of Israel has issued a press release calling for a Royal Commission into the Bondi massacre and the escalation of antisemitism in Australia.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah has endorsed mass murder, genocidal antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and open hatred of white people. And Keir Starmer couldn’t be more delighted at his arrival in the UK.

The Bondi massacre is already being exploited by the Albanese government to silence discussion of the real problems facing Australia.

A former atheist turned Christian street preacher was acquitted of 'hate claims' last month by a UK Crown Court jury after accusations were brought against him by a group of Muslims.

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.

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.

South Korea’s crackdown on conservatives and Christians intensifies as former leaders are arrested, raising alarms that the country’s democracy is sliding toward authoritarianism under President Lee Jae-myung.

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.

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.

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.

"A National Response to Islamophobia" goes beyond the vital task of addressing discrimination. It also attempts to shape the terms of public conversation, introducing a tendency to equate dissent with hostility.

The Prime Minister and key Australian institutions are yet to distance themselves from Hannah Ferguson, despite a 20,000-signature petition calling them to repudiate her pro-violence rhetoric.

When does speaking your mind become an act of violence? That’s the question confronting Australia after activist Kirralie Smith was dragged through the courts for speaking about transgender athletes. Australia is fast becoming a place where simply stating biological reality is treated as hateful, even unlawful.

Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen is still battling in court over a Twitter post quoting Paul’s letter to the Romans. Fed up with the continual downgrade of the Finnish Lutheran Church’s commitment to the gospel and biblical marriage, Räsänen says she is now prepared to leave the church.

We already have laws against harassment, threats and vandalism. What exactly does a new 'anti-hate' taskforce offer that existing legislation does not? A fresh opportunity to monitor, label, and suppress ideas that stray from the state-approved narrative.

A personal story from a Sydney high school reveals how multiculturalism unintentionally seeded anti-Semitic attitudes — and why ignoring the cost of mass immigration carries long-term consequences.

Our vocabulary now brims with "slavespeak" — words and phrases that, while sounding enlightened, are actually twisting our perception of the world. Time to free our minds and expose their true meanings.