12 December 2019
A Fake Assault On ‘Fake News’: Government’s Intervention Is As Chilling As It Is Insulting
The Morrison government bills its proposed digital platform reforms, announced on Thursday, as “world-leading”. That may be true, in the same way that China’s “Great Firewall” – a tool of authoritarian suppression – was “world-leading” when it began in the 1990s. If that comparison seems dramatic, it is meant to be. The government’s ham-fisted measures have absolutely no place in
29 March 2019
Let’s Not Forfeit Our Own Freedoms In The Rush To Silence Terrorists
American founding father Benjamin Franklin once wrote: “Any society that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” Since September 11, 2001, it’s a trade-off with which we are increasingly familiar. The Christchurch attacks were senseless acts of terror that reverberated around the world, but we need to be wary of knee-jerk
