Steve Holland Broadcaster, commentator, media consultant, libertarian and former mayor of the Mornington Peninsula. The Commonwealth Parliament, powered by a collusion of both major parties, has rammed through the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Act 2026. This law, cynically marketed as an antisemitism measure following the
Allowing controversial speakers into Australia provides an alternative to the mainstream media and this is good for a diversity of perspectives.
Free speech concerns have left the legislation in tatters.
A bad bill which will only protect Islamic hate.
When the architect of the Christchurch Call appears to abandon those principles when applied to a different community, it raises fundamental questions about whether those principles were ever truly universal, or merely convenient.
Linehan will be honored alongside Harvard Law professor and First Amendment warrior Alan Dershowitz and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
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.
The State Department will not tolerate “extraterritorial overreach by foreign censors targeting American speech,” the document said.
The more the process is ramped up, the louder critical voices become (and protests are likely to occur) and, correlatively, the more anxious the neo-fascists become, to close the net around citizens of the world.
Today, we are wrapping our children up in digital cotton wool! What are the implications? I ask you.
When we forget that offence is taken, not given, we trade our emotional autonomy for a fragile comfort – and in doing so, we risk silencing not only those we disagree with, but ultimately, ourselves.
Governments are tightening control over what citizens can say online. The worldwide slide toward punishing speech has profound consequences for open societies.
