UPDATE: When I did a search for Ms Flora I accidentally selected an image of Internal Affairs Minister Jan Tinetti. I have corrected the caption on the image and will replace it once I can find an actual photo of Ms Flora.
“Ms Flora will carry on the vital work of protecting New Zealanders from material likely to cause harm, while balancing the important right to freedom of expression.
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A true commitment to academic freedom means defending expression even when it’s unpopular or offensive. That’s the price of intellectual integrity in a free society.
With just over a month to go, I feel like film director Mike Leigh trying to justify his improvisational technique. There’s a basic idea, a few actors, a location and the outline of a script. That’s it.
Authoritarians across the Atlantic are taking aim at Americans’ First Amendment right.
Societies that lose the courage to speak plainly about violent ideologies become more brittle, more divided and more vulnerable to manipulation. History does not judge kindly those who chose euphemism over truth, especially when the warning signs are impossible to miss.
Pahlavi is not calling for the restoration of his family dynasty. He has advanced a specific five-point framework for transition to democracy – a call for national unity, civil resistance, international pressure, economic disruption, and preparation for a democratic transition.
As accusations of abductions resurface, it’s clear the West doesn’t care about facts on the ground if they contradict the narrative.
After US regulators linked child deaths to Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, an Australian senator has demanded to know why reported child deaths in Australia were not escalated for expert causality assessment.
