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Whangarei Council Attempts to Silence Unpopular Speech

Whangarei Council Attempts to Silence Unpopular Speech

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.

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A Tribute

A Tribute

By Beth Houlbrooke ACT party Deputy Leader / Vice President This week I watched six hours of the Committee of the whole House stage of the End of Life Choice Bill. It was fascinating if not drawn out by deliberate tactics to slow the process of the Bill. That this was

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New Twist as the Folau Saga Continues

New Twist as the Folau Saga Continues

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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Why Would They Even Bother?

Why Would They Even Bother?

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

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Oz Labor Picks a Free Speech Fight with the White House

Oz Labor Picks a Free Speech Fight with the White House

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

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Free Speech in Harm’s Way

Free Speech in Harm’s Way

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

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Snopes Are a Bad Joke

Snopes Are a Bad Joke

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

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Australia’s Queen of the Unflushables Tries to Ban Raheem Kassam

Australia’s Queen of the Unflushables Tries to Ban Raheem Kassam

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

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Tech Thursday

Tech Thursday

Watch Dennis Prager’s opening testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution regarding Big Tech censorship.

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Social Media Snitches Harm Us

Social Media Snitches Harm Us

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

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NZ Street Preacher Threatened with Arrest for Quoting Bible Verses

NZ Street Preacher Threatened with Arrest for Quoting Bible Verses

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

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FSC Podcast: Is a Facebook Parody page Free Speech?

FSC Podcast: Is a Facebook Parody page Free Speech?

Free Speech Coalition co-founder Jordan Williams sits down with Dr Reynold Macpherson and Stephen Franks to discuss Dr Macpherson’s complaint to the police about a Facebook page that parodies him and his mayoral run for the Rotorua District Council. The Free Speech Coalition wanted to challenge Dr Macpherson

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To Jump or Stand Still?

To Jump or Stand Still?

By Patriot Realm I have not written an article for some days now. I have been in shock at what happened to Tommy Robinson and have been contemplating the ramifications for us all. Particularly for those of us who blog. This is a dark time for Tommy and a dark

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