Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt’s op-ed yesterday defending the government's proposed hate speech laws is thoroughly predictable after a month of terrible comms that failed to convince New Z...
Free Speech Union Conversion Therapy Submission Explained
The introduction of the Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill (CPP Bill) to Parliament by Minister for Justice Kris Faafoi was a long-awaited win for many Kiwis in the Rainbow Community, and wider. Fo...
Record Public Feedback Against Government’s Proposed Anti-speech Laws
6 August 2021
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More than 15,000 Kiwis have submitted to the Ministry of Justice against the proposed “hate speech” laws and endorsed Free Speech Union’s submission via its submiss...
More Than 10,000 New Zealanders Submit Against Proposed “Hate Speech” Changes
4 August 2021
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The Kiwi public has responded loud and clear to the Government’s questions raised in the consultation document on proposed hate speech changes: they don’t want the ...
Free Speech Union Academic Advisory Council Statement on the Listener Letter
The Free Speech Union unequivocally supports the free expression of seven distinguished New Zealand academics who recently authored a letter to The Listener, titled, In Defence of Science as well as t...
