Choose freedom

The first Shangri-La Dialogue since 2019 is a chance for world leaders and ministers to discuss urgent and long-term international security questions, and underlined the need for the free world to stand up against authoritarian challenges.

The worrying decline of Australian civil liberties

The recent police raids on the ABC and News Corp go beyond questions of free speech and media freedom – they’re further proof of Australia’s wider democratic decline.

The vexed question of campus freedom of speech

The right to academic freedom and freedom of speech on campus is a sacred one for universities, but the nature of this responsibility is often complex. However open and robust public debate on campus is important for the same reasons it’s important in society more generally.

The ‘Braveheart effect’ – and how companies manipulate our desire for freedom

Being mindful of the Braveheart effect can help us to be active decision makers guided by reason, rather than passive victims of evolution or corporations, no matter how they try to ‘nudge’ us towards buying their wares.

Press censorship clouds the Asia-Pacific

The Chinese model of state-controlled news and suppression of free speech and information is being copied in other countries in Asia and the Pacific, threatening democracy and civil society.