Police Complaints watchdog, the IPCA, announced today that NZ Police violated the rights of protestors in a number of high-profile cases – individuals staunchly supported by the Free Speech Union.Whil...
I’m writing about further abuse by professional regulators, forcing political opinions on healthcare workers. If they don’t echo the party line, they face deregistration.Cross-cultural assumptions can...
I am very frustrated with an announcement today.Despite canning unworkable and incredibly unpopular 'hate speech' laws at the beginning of their term, the National Minister of Justice, Paul Goldsmith,...
Feelings over facts... Such is the rationale behind moves by senior civil servants in the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) to silence public criticisms made by a Kiwi think tan...
Do you want 'truth' determined by 'fact-checkers'?
This is not always easy, but it is important: one of the most basic roles we have here at the Free Speech Union is to make the case for free speech, even when everyone else is lined up against it.
Th...
Have you ever visited Chicago?
I've just come in from pulling some weeds in my garden, and happened to be thinking about the first time I visited there.
For an otherwise troubled city (famous, in par...
