Doorbell cam vision of arrest of UK parents who complained about their daughter’s primary school on WhatsApp

British parents arrested after complaining about daughter’s school on WhatsApp

Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine were reportedly detained by six officers in front of their three-year-old daughter after posting in a parent group chat.

  • Will Bolton

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In this image taken from security footage,Rumeysa Ozturk,a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University,is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville,Massachusetts.

‘Looked like a kidnapping’:Student’s arrest in Trump crackdown caught on camera

The 30-year-old doctoral student was walking to meet friends for dinner when a man grabbed her on the footpath.

  • Jake Offenhartz,Kathy Mccormack andMichael Casey
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Money talks,and defending free speech now comes at a cost

We live in an extraordinary moment in history in which boundaries of free speech have to be set and policed by ordinary people all the time.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Protesters marched outside Columbia University on Monday demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil.

‘First arrest of many’:Graduate faces deportation as Trump cracks down on student protests

The case marks a dramatic escalation of the US president’s efforts to curb what he calls “antisemitic and anti-American activity” on university campuses.

  • Michael Koziol
Antisemitism and Islamophobia are nothing new in this country. But community and political leaders can help keep them in check by toning down their own rhetoric.

Major party impasse threatens to unravel proposed hate speech laws

Islamic Council of Victoria spokesman Adel Salman said the political defence should never have been dropped from the government’s anti-vilification legislation.

  • Chip Le Grand

How art was ransacked by ineptitude,political pandering and confected outrage

In dumping a fine artist such as Khaled Sabsabi from the Venice Biennale,Creative Australia has undermined the public’s faith in the capacity of art to open minds.

  • Liz Ann Macgregor
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President Donald Trump.

Trump bans major US news agency for refusing to rename Gulf of Mexico

The US president has been accused of violating the First Amendment after indefinitely barring The Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One.

  • Michael Koziol

If ‘hate speech’ laws go too far,we will lose essential freedoms

In the name of a good cause,what may be said is policed by ever-more intrusive political censorship. That is how free societies lose their freedoms.

  • George Brandis
Pro-Palestine protesters hold a placard of Iran’s Supreme Leader,Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,at a rally in Melbourne’s CBD in October 2024.

Pro-Palestine protests are intimidating Jews. Moving them doesn’t harm anyone

If there were any doubts about the nature of the menace confronting Australian Jews,it has been made alarmingly clear by the antisemitic attacks in Melbourne and Sydney

  • Chip Le Grand
Mark Zuckerberg announced his decision this week to get rid of Meta’s professional fact-checkers,

Don’t blame Zuckerberg:The truth about humans is we can’t handle the truth

The Meta boss tied his axing of fact-checkers to the “cultural tipping point” of Trump winning back the presidency. Let’s hope he doesn’t tip the digital age into a dark age.

  • Alexandra Senter