This report provides a detailed examination of the state of academic freedom at New Zealand universities, together with an analysis of the main threats to academic freedom in the country at present. The report identifies and discusses three main threats to academic freedom and closes with a number of recommendations, including an annual audit of...

In response to growing concerns about foreign interference, the Canadian government has proposed new legislation to combat this threat. This paper examines how Canada's allies in the Five Eyes security alliance have implemented foreign influence transparency registries and what lessons can be learnt.

This article is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between legal scholars and a journalist with prolific expertise and experience in media. The aim is to explain and clarify several pieces of Australian legislation and regulation and the free speech burdens it potentially imposes, to determine whether the laws are suitably targeted at preventing and...

This paper outlines how the Canadian government is currently exploring the creation of a foreign influence transparency registry, to try to reduce the potential for foreign state actors to deceptively engage in influence campaigns through Canadian intermediaries.

Foreign interference has been an issue of growing global concern in the past decade. A key recommendation from this inquiry is for the Australian Government to require all large social media platforms operating in Australia to meet a minimum set of transparency requirements, enforceable with fines.