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Simon Breheny
Our freedoms safe - for now
The Gillard government's backdown on its outrageous media regulation and anti-free-speech discrimination laws is welcome. But it's terrible that in...
Freedom fighters will save the HRC
The Australian Human Rights Commission must correct its bias towards a left-wing human rights agenda by moving to appoint freedom commissioners....
Shameless use of tax to fund rights attack
The Gillard government's proposed anti-discrimination overhaul - which would make it unlawful to discuss almost any political idea in the workplace...
Proposed law a further attack on free speech
The law that was used to silence Andrew Bolt has been supercharged by the Gillard government's proposed changes to anti-discrimination laws. Bolt...
Attacks on free speech
The Tasmanian Government is the latest to join the growing anti-free speech movement. The most recent attack comes in the form of the State...
Government's creeping hand
The federal government's proposed data-retention regime deserves every bit of the immense amount of public criticism that has been heaped upon it....
Free speech? 'Whatevs,' says the United Nations
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon last week expressed concern about free speech because sometimes it can be "used to provoke or humiliate." God...
Only real threat is to our online privacy
Imagine if Australia Post opened and read all your mail. There would be outrage. Attorney-General Nicola Roxon has given her support to a proposal...
Democracy sidelined in panic over chaplains
It is a basic tenet of parliamentary democracy that the decision to spend public money is made by the parliament. The English Civil War and the...