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The pub test

Why is censoring pub talk on the ‘to do list’?

19 January 2025

6:12 PM

19 January 2025

6:12 PM

‘Sadly, you can say what you like around the kitchen table at home,’ said Human Rights Commission President, Gillian Triggs, back in 2017.

Australia cringed.

Free speech has long been an endangered species, except bureaucrats don’t hold up public works programs to protect it as they do for rare spotted tree frogs.

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