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The Pirate Is Still Gunning for Izzy

The Pirate Is Still Gunning for Izzy

You gotta hand it to them: outside the Balkans or some feuding Appalachian hillbillies, nobody hates with quite the undying passion of the left. Case in point: former rugby player and scribbler of alleged ‘histories’, Peter FitzSimons. “Pirate” Pete has pursued record-breaking rugby player Israel Folau with a tenacity exceeding

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Facebook: Censoring Reporting on Facebook Censorship

Facebook: Censoring Reporting on Facebook Censorship

Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Facebook has deleted a simple post sharing a very popular article on GoodSauce.news which criticises Facebook censorship. I like to think I can play within the rules and let you know what you need to know without triggering the overbearing rules of the giant social

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Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australia is perhaps unique among Western nations in not having guaranteed freedom of speech. The United States is famous for its First Amendment, Great Britain has a common law right, even New Zealand has its Bill of Rights (which its government seems increasingly determined to ignore). But Australia? Nothing. Nothing,

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It’s Only Words…

It’s Only Words…

Oh for God’s sake, please STOP! The latest piece of garbage from the woke brigade demands that Shaun Wallace, AKA “The Dark Destroyer”, from TV’s “The Chase” should do away with the descriptor “dark”.  Shaun himself says that he’s perfectly happy with his name and, in case

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No Jokes, Please, We’re Scottish

No Jokes, Please, We’re Scottish

As Theodore Dalrymple points out, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is a nationalist and a socialist: “a national socialist”. Which might, perhaps, explain her government’s hyper-sensitivity to erstwhile national socialist leader Adolf Hitler being mocked by silly-looking dogs. When YouTube comedian Mark Meechan, aka “Count Dankula”, posted a video

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Free Speech Dividing Lines

Free Speech Dividing Lines

As election rumblings grow louder it’s worth reviewing some of the key fault lines of the last three years. Some of these cracks in the public square will inevitably re-open in the next term, especially in the (unlikely!) event that the current government is returned. Among the most significant

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Twitter, Facebook & YouTube Censor Frontline Doctors Claiming Hydroxychloroquine Prevents & Cures Coronavirus

Twitter, Facebook & YouTube Censor Frontline Doctors Claiming Hydroxychloroquine Prevents & Cures Coronavirus

Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Twitter, Facebook and YouTube/Google have unanimously agreed Americans are too stupid to filter the information presented on their platforms for themselves. Worse, they have subjectively decided a press conference of America’s Frontline Doctors held in front of the Supreme Court of the United States

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Federal Court of Australia Delivers Severe Blow to Free Speech

Federal Court of Australia Delivers Severe Blow to Free Speech

Patrick Corish Co-ordinator Free Speech Coalition While the Free Speech Coalition focuses exclusively on freedom of expression in New Zealand, we like to keep tabs on free speech developments in our Western democratic cousins. Sadly, last week the Federal Court of Australia heard an appeal against a professor’s right

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