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- The stated goal of 18C is the suppression of racism. It's inevitable result, as Quadrant warned nine years ago, has been the gagging of free speech
February 13, 2026
19 mins
- Woke, privileged and lawyered-up, Mehreen Faruqi's courtroom victory over Pauline tells us a lot about her - and even more about the legal travesty that is 18C
February 10, 2026
18 mins
- "That the new speech-crime regime will be applied narrowly, apolitically, objectively and fairly stretches credulity beyond breaking"
January 22, 2026
3 mins

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- In this new Australia that Anthony Albanese and Sussan Ley have given us, being paranoid doesn't mean theyaren't out to get you
January 21, 2026
6 mins
- The contemporary revival of censorship is far more wide-ranging than its typical expression in the past, when its all-but-exclusive focus was on sexual matters. Now you only need to quote selected passages from the Bible (of all books), as Israel Folau can tell you
January 20, 2026
18 mins
- One doesn't need to believe the Third Reich's war-production minister's mea culpas to find his memoir a direct relevance to the West's current woes
January 15, 2026
16 mins
- Broadly put, the future of Western civilisation is contingent upon us cancelling the 'sin' of provocation before it cancels us
December 30, 2025
13 mins
- Oh, such poetic justice! The Left, which created cancel culture, now plays language games as it feels the sting of a growing backlash
December 12, 2025
15 mins
- There's no echo of jackboots in the streets nor giant portraits of leaders hanging on public buildings. Not yet, anyway
December 9, 2025
5 mins
- Britain's Free Speech Union has just released a chilling video. Watch it before you can't
November 22, 2025
3 mins
- As the BBC has just demonstrated, scrutiny of facial expressions to ascertain compatibility with woke ideology is the new frontline in the battle for free speech
November 19, 2025
6 mins
- "As Robert Menzies said, 'Power is apt to produce a kind of drunkenness, and it needs the cold douche of the critic to correct it'.”
November 12, 2025
22 mins
- eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant delivered her usual polished performance before Senate Estimstimates and that's the problem
October 19, 2025
7 mins
- The new AFP Commissioner's intention to investigate speech that 'falls short' of an actual offence is deeply disturbing
October 17, 2025
8 mins
- The eSafety Commissioner swears age verification technology works and works well. It doesn't, as our analysis of the data she cites makes blindingly clear
September 29, 2025
9 mins
- Let us not emulate Weimar Germany, which sought to suppress 'hate speech' with ill-defined laws and penalties that, ultimately, abetted the worst offenders
September 26, 2025
14 mins
- 'When people stop talking,' Charlie Kirk said, 'that’s when ... civil war happens.' God help us all
September 13, 2025
8 mins
- Kevin Williamson accepted a position as the token conservative atThe Atlantic Then the Left piled on and after three days he was fired
September 2, 2025
26 mins
- Medical ‘requirements’ are stripping our professions of independent minds. What we are witnessing is the unthinkable becoming our the new normal
August 26, 2025
9 mins
- What the government and its tame judges are doing is extremely serious, not least because it is a model for those who would do likewise here
August 5, 2025
11 mins
- Despite repeated slap-downs in court, our empire-building eSafety Commissioner's yen to control, censor and fine remains undiminished
August 3, 2025
4 mins
- Tommy Robinson was released from a British prison in 2018 after a contempt of court conviction was scathingly condemned on appeal. Here, the genesis and gist of England's disgrace
July 30, 2025
7 mins
- Is eCommissioner Julie Inman Grant sufficiently self-aware to grasp that her performance, judged by courtroom defeats, has been nothing less than dreadful?
July 2, 2025
7 mins
- A congressional panel has tied eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant to a Trump-hating group that set out to wreck Elon Musk's X via possible 'violation of the anti-trust laws'
June 28, 2025
9 mins
- The long-term prospects for freedom of speech are dim. Those who value it are less vehement in their defence than are the self-righteous in their assault
May 15, 2025
8 mins
- Say something that offends a member of a 'protected group' and theJustice Legislation Amendment could see you imprisoned
April 4, 2025
12 mins
- The Left loves such words as 'debate' and 'deliberation', but their use is mostly ornamental
April 4, 2025
18 mins
- Privacy, like free speech, is a fundamental right. A UK-Australia 'memorandum of understanding' scoffs at that quaint notion
March 4, 2025
9 mins
- Say you write of the Koran's admonition that apostates must be killed. Well the new 'hate speech' laws might put you in jail
February 19, 2025
13 mins
- JD Vance has lashed the crimping of free speech in Europe. Wait until he hears about our eSafety Commissioner
February 15, 2025
17 mins
- Our Parliament has just elevated cowardice above courage. How could the LNP, purported defenders of free speech, ever have backed it?
February 14, 2025
5 mins
- If eSafety investigators can raise a fuss over posts that may be subjectively distasteful but are perfectly legal, what sort of a censorship shop is Julie Inman Grant running?
February 8, 2025
6 mins
- The just-passed under-16 social media law purports to safeguard kids. Perhaps, but it is another step towards a digital IDs for all
December 11, 2024
11 mins

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