Labor has pulled its misinformation crackdown and won’t put forward gambling reform this week but is pushing the Greens to accept its agenda on up to 20 other bills unchanged.
The Biden administration has used antitrust legislation to target the technology giants,even seeking to break up Google. Trump’s nominees to key posts overseeing the tech sector won’t be much friendlier.
In the wake of a campaign by a conservative advocacy group to restrict access to two sexual education books to over-16s,the State Library said it would continue to support and defend intellectual freedoms.
Why would the notoriously prickly Chinese government let in the notoriously provocative Ye? The answer may lie in China’s struggling economy.
Sackings,boycotts,sponsorship withdrawals:arts organisations across the country are in turmoil. So who has the right to say what?
Culture wars have many fronts but the Israel/Hamas conflict has supercharged unlikely battles over free speech,discrimination and the nature of protest.
Elon Musk and Pavel Durov have been asking for trouble. It has found them.
Beware the online-harm brigade,or we’ll have police on our doorsteps as fast as we can say boo online.
Loss of snow cover is further proof,if any were needed,that our climate is changing – and not for the better.
One councillor against the book ban says it contradicts Cumberland’s motto of “Welcome,Belong,Succeed”.
Best-selling Australian author Amie Kaufman,whose books have been banned in the US,is warning against importing a culture war over literature.