AUSTRALIAN Liberal senator Alex Antic has called YouTube’s suspension of Sky News Australia “dangerous,” saying that the platform’s attempts at moderating COVID-related information were ultimately wrong. The online video-sharing platform YouTube suspended the popular conservative pay TV channel from posting on its…
SOCIAL media giant YouTube has suspended Sky News Australia from posting to its video platform, issuing a first strike against the conservative news channel over so-called “COVID-19 misinformation”. The tech giant said its decision to issue a strike was based on local…
THOUSANDS of Australians fed up with COVID-19 lockdowns marched in Sydney and Melbourne on Saturday as part of the “World Wide Rally for Freedom” protests. The freedom protestors gathered at inner Sydney’s Victoria Park before marching to Town Hall in the CBD,…
NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant has made an impassioned plea for people to be truthful with contact tracers after the Premier said the “vast majority” of Sydney’s 50 new CCP virus cases were being obstructive. “We know that everyone is human and makes poor decisions at certain times, but please don’t compound that initial mistake by not telling us the truth the first time,” Dr Chant said.
DUTCH PM Mark Rutte has told Hungary it had “no business being in the European Union anymore” after it banned the promotion of homosexuality to children. Mr Rutte’s outburst followed the Hungarian parliament’s adoption of legislation that bans the depiction or promotion of homosexuality among children younger than 18 years of age.
THE Chinese leadership is beset by insecurity and a “siege mentality”, according to the outgoing head of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade. Secretary Frances Adamson, a former ambassador to China who was present during the elevation of Xi Jinping to the Communist Party leadership, said that from his ascension, the Chinese regime underwent the most “consequential change”.
MELBOURNE University is set to finalise its new “Gender Affirmation Policy,” which will ban speeches, behaviours, or activities suspected of posing “potential harm” to transgender people at the university. When enacted, the policy will allow people claiming transgender rights to choose any bathroom facilities that most closely align with the gender they identify with.
BEFORE jetting off to the G7, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison addressed the USAsia Centre in Perth on June 9. His address entitled “A world order that favours freedom” is an ambitious attempt at demonstrating that “liberal democracies work” considering that, in many countries, freedom is an elusive or vanishing goal.
AUSTRALIAN Education Minister Alan Tudge has given universities until the end of the year to enforce a freedom of speech code, threatening to use legislation if they refuse or cannot implement it. “You cannot pursue truth without freedom of expression. You cannot create knowledge without freedom of academic inquiry,” Mr Tudge said in a speech to the Universities Australia conference in Canberra on Thursday.
FEWER Australians wanted to buy products made in China, preferring locally made goods, according to new figures. The number of Australians more likely to buy products made in China fell to 21 per cent, down 9 percentage points, according to market research company Roy Morgan.
