A Sydney professor of law describes his arrest and fears it is a symptom of overzealous policing applied to protesters yet not others who gather in public.
Simon Rice says the government needs to make rules around protests more consistent after he was pushed and fined during a student march in which he was not taking part.
The leader of a Perth university which sued a whistleblower for speaking out about questionable international student intake practices says “we may slip sometimes” but freedom of information was taken very seriously.
It’s bizarre that she,of all people,should be the champion of academic freedom but on this issue she is right.
If there's a'witch hunt'here,the victim has been miscast. It's not the Tasmanian senator who knows little about trans women and their bathroom requirements.
Anti-discrimination commissions have tyranny built into their design.
Freedom is coming,but we really don't need one-dimensional chanting about liberty.
Students and staff have condemned the heavy police response to protests on campus,which they say suppresses free speech and is inconsistent with other COVID-19 guidelines.
A Sydney Morning Herald correspondent in the 1970s,Preston reflects on the difficulty covering China then,but observes that it seems impossible for an Australian reporter to do it safely today.
A spat is brewing over claims Chinese political dissidents,including prominent Melbourne-based artist Badiucao,have been been snubbed by the University of Western Australia's Confucius Institute.
Chinese students in Australia are scared of speaking out about Hong Kong as the Chinese Communist Party ramps up new online portals for reporting dissent.