Augusto Zimmermann

30 May 2019
Left Speechless
This article by Augusto Zimmermann first appeared in the April 2019 edition of the IPA Review. When in late 2018 the Federal Minister for Education, Dan Tehan, commissioned Robert French to undertake an inquiry into “Freedom of Speech in Australian Higher Education Providers” it was a welcome if belated acknowledgement of the very real issues on Australian campuses—issues which are

1 August 2016
The Sound of Constitutional Silence
The illiberal nature of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act has serious ramifications for free society; write Joshua Forrester, Lorraine Finlay, and Augusto Zimmermann If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? The constitutional law equivalent of this philosophical thought experiment might be as follows—If there is