It’s easy to defend free speech when you support a speaker’s views. It’s harder when you oppose them. Now, after the ruling in the Bolt case, free speech champions – even those who dislike and disagree with Andrew Bolt – should be speaking out, wrote CL…
The Attorney-General’s criticism of WikiLeaks is classical double standards: apparently, it was OK for the government of the day to leak against whistleblower Andrew Wilkie, but anyone leaking against the then-or-now Australian Government commits a hein…
The communications authority, ACMA, is seeking CLA comment on whether its draft revised Privacy Guidelines for Broadcasters are appropriate. To have your say, read the ACMA letter and the Draft Guidelines, and send comments and thoughts to the Secretary…
‘The cause for which we stand and when we must, fight, is freedom,’ says Malcolm Turnbull in a thoughtful analysis of effects from the WikiLeaks/Assange matters. He also points out that the High Court in Australia is unlikely to protect the secrets of a…
Ultra-conservative columnist Andrew Bolt riles people with his cutting words. Now a noted QC is gunning for Bolt in court on behalf of Aboriginal clients, denying Bolt’s right to free speech. Barrister’s Ron Merkel’s courtly claims sound most unlike the…
A US magistrate judge has ruled that every service detail recorded about you by Twitter (and, by inference, any other social media) is wide open to government – read police, security and marketing – access. The ‘Twitter Order’, if if survives appeal, co…