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Do Australians care about free speech?

30 March 2025

9:12 AM

30 March 2025

9:12 AM

‘Free speech’ is losing its position in the political conversation.

It’s not only because rising middle-class poverty is shifting people’s priorities, or even that we have two generations who were never taught to value free speech by their pathetic, miserable, larping communist teachers who lack the courage to live under the ideology they praise.

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