by Jim Ball | Apr 27, 2017 | Blog, Free Speech, Yassmin Abdel-Magied |
Andrew Bolt pretty much nails the canard being floated that somehow the criticism of Abdel-Magied is anti free speech. Of course it’s the opposite. This entire episode is a demonstration that the best way to fight her free speech is with better free speech.... by Jim Ball | Feb 22, 2017 | 18C, Blog, Free Speech |
Random Note #189,526 At the risk of a little cultural appropriation of my own this once member of the Liberal Party, when running as a Conservative Independent in Mackellar last year, referred to many in the Liberal Party a LINOs, Liberals In Name Only, culturally... by Jim Ball | Nov 12, 2016 | Blog, Free Speech, Human Rights Commission
This is government sponsored corruption. This is demanding money with menaces. It’s the stuff of the Mafia. It’s extortion. Its blackmail. You just have to read this. It’s about how a fellow who had no idea (because he was never told by the AHRC that... by Jim Ball | Nov 9, 2016 | Blog, Free Speech |
The year was 1994 and even The Greens had problems with and could see the kinks in 18c, speaking about it in terms of the “thought police” “….It may appear the insidious nature of the law has been revealed only by recent cases. That’s wrong. It... by Jim Ball | Nov 6, 2016 | Blog, Free Speech, Human Rights Commission |
A list of ungrateful rabble and scum. All 173 of them. And all junior woodchucks and Gramsci wannabes who don’t know what they don’t know. Project Australia is wasted on the lot of them. Pearls before swine as the saying goes. Note signatory number 170.... by Jim Ball | Nov 5, 2016 | 18C, Blog, Free Speech, Race Dicrimination and 18c, Triggs |
“…The explosion of vitriol triggered by the Bill Leak case demands a psychological explanation. For stating a truth that should not be stated, according to a sizeable minority of the population, a cartoonist — for whom there is conventionally broad...