Free Speech Coalition The government deserves praise for taking proactive and public steps against the Chinese Consulate’s attempt to interfere with speech at universities. Free Speech Coalition spokesperson Dr David Cumin says, “It would have been easy for the government to do nothing, for fear of offending a key
By Alex Eastwood-Williams Right Minds The government has announced that it plans to introduce reforms to New Zealand’s abortion law reforms. This is an emotive topic, and it’s not one I particularly want to write about, but I cannot in all good conscience remain silent on the
Free Speech Coalition The use of bylaws to prohibit a Whangarei street preacher from pamphleteering sends a dark message to religious New Zealanders. “Preachers have the right to share views in public squares, as they have done for thousands of years,” says Rachel Poulain, spokesperson for the Free Speech Coalition.
This week, Ruwan, Beth and Villa Education Trust’s Alwyn Poole discuss ACT’s Partnership Schools and Student Education Accounts and the Government’s plan to take control away from community-run schools.
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The Israel Folau saga just keeps rolling on: on the very day that Folau’s claim against his former employers was lodged with Australia’s Federal Court, it was revealed that his cousin, Josiah Folau, has also lost his job over his religious views. Just to thicken the plot, Josiah
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In the classic Seinfeld episode “The Sponge”, Kramer causes a riot when he takes part in an AIDS Walk but, in opposition to “ribbon bullies”, refuses to wear an AIDS ribbon. The scene was in fact based on a real-life controversy: in 1993, actress Deidre Hall made a point
Anthony Albanese just keeps stumbling along in his new role as opposition leader. After a humiliating back down in his standoff with union bovver-boy John Setka, now one of his frontbenchers has gone and picked a fight with the White House. Kristina Keneally is one of Labor’s quota
The Free Speech Coalition has warned that we should be nervous about “a new strategy for the Broadcasting Standards Authority to focus on “harm” when administering the codes.” The new strategy is being developed along with a government review of ‘the legal approach to “hate”’. People, of course, will define
It’s obvious now that Trump’s election broke the legacy media. From the moment Rachel Maddow began sniffling live on air, the legacy media’s fig leaf of impartiality was ripped away like a waxing strip. But many of the new media have fared little better, especially on the
Just to prove that the Australian left has learned nothing from their recent election drubbing, Labor’s Kristina Keneally is stamping her little feet and holding her little bweafs, demanding the right to silence the free speech of yet another big ol’ “far right” meanie. Keneally is Australian politics’ most
Watch Dennis Prager’s opening testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution regarding Big Tech censorship.
Since the terror attack in Christchurch, the government and mainstream media have been pushing the line that reporting on ‘hate speech’ will make New Zealand safer. In reality, supporting a Snitch culture on social media will make New Zealand less safe. Snitching appeals to a certain kind of person. It
By LesleyNZ The video below popped up in my FB Messenger. It happened in Whangarei recently. Grant Edwards from NZ Street Preachers calls a spade a spade, mentions sin, sinners, different sins and Hell; and he mentioned different religions, saying that Mohammed was a paedophile and associating the Catholic Church
