Tag: Free Speech

Love means caring enough to have the courage to fight for the truth. This does not mean we should be provocative or careless: free speech is also prudent speech and we need to choose our words and pick our battles carefully. But God expects us to pick some.

Victorian GP Dr Jereth Kok posted on Facebook: “2020 will be remembered as the year when the facemask replaced the tinfoil hat as a symbol of paranoid hysteria?” Consequently he could be banned from practicing medicine.

It is a decision that has been hailed as “an important win for freedom of speech in Australia” and “part of a global fight against government censorship,” but it is really more a lesson on why consistency matters, writes Monica Doumit.

While I am happy to delay the use of Instagram and Snapchat amongst kids for as long as possible, I’m wary of a government ban when they are so willing to ignore other real and present dangers to the wellbeing of children, writes Monica Doumit.

A local council in the UK spent £90,000 prosecuting Adam Smith-Connor for praying outside an abortion clinic. While exclusion zones around abortion clinics are increasingly seen in western, supposedly civilised countries, they are much more akin to totalitarian regimes, writes Monica Doumit.

NSW Swifts netball star Samantha Wallace-Joseph had a “Folau moment” this week after objecting to President Joe Biden declaring Easter Sunday to be Transgender Day of Visibility and quickly issued an apology. If the government’s proposed new religious discrimination bill won’t protect the likes of Wallace-Joseph, Monica Doumit asks if there is any point to them at all?

Living in a Western democracy generally assures citizens a range of rights and personal freedoms. With these, of course, come clear responsibilities. A right that...

Trigger warning: the following contains words and descriptions that will offend people of colour, feminists and other assorted Woke victims of western supremacy and...

Proposed changes to NSW anti-discrimination laws could be brought to Parliament as early as June.

Banning debate creates a dictatorship Swamped as it has been by the daily news of stories like the coronavirus it’s understandable why so little attention...

The movie, The American President, is one of my all-time favourites. In one scene, the fictional President Andrew Shepherd says that if you really...

The country's largest Catholic university has thrown its support behind French recommendations.