2012: Not the end of the world, but perhaps the end of the world as we know it
Kate Carruthers As we come up to the year 2012 many prognosticators are predicting the end of the world. I suspect that this will not come to pass. But I do think…
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Dissent and Securing Freedom – Aung San Suu Kyi shares her ideas
Over the weekend I listened to this moving talk from the Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, where she examines what drives people to dissent.…
Freedom – the price and the value #Libya #auspol
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde, in Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) It has been fascinating to watch…
Public discourse and private citizens – how free is freedom of speech? #groggate
A recent disclosure that a Federal public servant has been blogging about matters political in his personal time has come to be referred amongst Australian journalists and bloggers alike as…
Tolerance: freedom of speech, thought, association and discussion
It has been very interesting (during the 2010 Australian federal election campaign) to watch people advocating freedom of speech on one hand and then getting upset when people with differing…
Freedom – price or cost?
Many people have told me that freedom has a price. While others have told me that freedom has a cost. It got me thinking about the difference between a price…
We take our freedom of speech for granted!
This news item from Techcrunch – hat tip to @jowyang for the link – makes me conscious of how precious are our freedoms of speech and association. People fought hard…