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Freedom of speech

July 2026

  • The ABC logo atop a building

    ABC argues that early license review by FCC is ‘retaliation’ for network’s coverage

  • A policeman stands at the entrance to the Have A Nice Stay independent bookstore after the officers raided the premises and arrested employees in Hong Kong on Wednesday.

    Five arrested in Hong Kong bookstore raids in ‘seditious’ materials crackdown

  • View of the campus of the University of Melbourne, a public research university founded in 1853

    University of Melbourne ‘sharply’ changed protest policies after pro-Palestine sit-ins, commission hears

  • Performers at the opening night of Divine Playhouse, a new queer takeover of an unused church in Sydney

    LGBTQI+ artists have been targeted for ‘insulting Christianity’. To queer people, this feels particularly cruel

    James Thorpe

  • Make human rights protections stronger

  • Full Story
    Have social media platforms fuelled antisemitism? – Full Story podcast

    Podcast18:47

  • Meta bosses grilled over decision to cut ‘censorship’ that has potentially unleashed more antisemitic content

  • Lisa Nandy quits X over fears Musk-owned site pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’

June 2026

  • Chair Of The Parliamentary Joint Committee On Human Rights and Labor Member For Macnamara Josh Burns and members of the Australasian Union of Jewish Students at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, February 13th, 2025. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

    Antisemitism isn’t always overt. A torrent of suspicion is questioning Jewish Australians’ loyalty to the country we love

    Josh Burns
  • Doctors legs at the ICU unit St Vincents hospital Sydney

    Fears doctors criticising Israel may be silenced as health watchdog adopts contested antisemitism definition

  • Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia Aftab Malik speaks to the media during a press conference at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices (CPO) in Sydney, Friday, September 12, 2025. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

    As a Muslim, it is encouraging to hear Pauline Hanson quote from a book. If there’s one thing we need, it’s more reading

    Aftab Malik
  • Close up of Lady Justice statue in LondonA telephoto image of the statue of Lady Justice, holding a sword and weighing scales, located on top of the Central Criminal Court, known as the Old Bailey, in London.

    Legislation proposed to stop lawsuits used to silence journalists and whistleblowers

  • GB News critics want to limit free speech to ‘liberal, Islington consensus’, Grade says

  • Here in Georgia our festivals are full, but our poets are in prison – and now we feel abandoned by Europe

    Archil Kikodze

  • Those who championed free speech in the UK and US now wage war on it. And here’s why: Palestine

    Mehdi Hasan

  • Why is Hasan Piker ‘not conducive to the public good’? Because on Gaza, we punish the witness, not the crime

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • Banning leftwing activists from entering Britain: an illiberal move with a long history in this country

    DK Renton

  • Leftwing US commentator calls decision to ban him from UK ‘Kafkaesque’

  • Today in Focus
    Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK – podcast

    Podcast24:37

  • What’s at risk when universities cancel graduation speakers?

    Video4:15
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