Freedom of Speech

The Colson Centre (www.colsoncenter.org) has produced a series of short, apologetic videos, “What Would You Say?”, to help Christians address issues of social and moral concern. (They can be [...]

During the campaign to legalise homosexual “marriage”, the 43% of Australians who believe that marriage is an exclusively heterosexual institution were decried for their supposed bigotry. Gay [...]

One of the most peculiar characteristics of contemporary Australia is that opponents of religious expression often assume that Christian beliefs are irremediably divisive, bigoted, and [...]

When I was younger, it was not uncommon to hear people say, “I may not agree with what you say, but I will fight for your right to say it.” We fundamentally believed in liberty—in freedom of [...]

In the first week of February 2016, some ten months before the US Presidential elections, Sheila and I packed our bags and set out on a 1600 kilometre journey from Cincinnati, Ohio to Sublette, [...]

On Monday, 25th May 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man from Minneapolis, Minnesota, after being handcuffed, was incapacitated by officer Derek Chauvin using a “choke hold” (his knee [...]

Dear Izzy, So you’ve been banned from Australian Rugby Union. After two posts on social media declaring the Bible’s message about judgement and salvation – including toward homosexual people – [...]

Two problems with Scott Morrison’s proposed Religious Discrimination Bill. First, what does it mean for those who make a stand on conscientious, not religious, grounds? Why should our laws [...]

At the present time Federal Parliament is debating whether to remove exemptions in the Sex Discrimination Act which allow religious educational bodies to discriminate if they are acting in [...]

There is a considerable risk that the Morrison government might be contemplating the enactment of discrimination laws that could ban so-called ‘hate speech’ on the basis of severe criticism of [...]