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 policy brief defines digital authoritarianism and its practices, then cites case studies as an exploration of the relationship between national regulations and digital authoritarian practices.

The Institute of Public Affairs’ 'Free speech on campus audit 2023' is the fourth systematic analysis of more than 279 policies at Australia’s 42 universities. The audit rates each university’s support for free speech by analysing policies that restrict expression.

This paper analyses the TAPRI September 2022 survey paper on attitudes to population growth, taking it from the perspective of voters’ capacity to debate immigration-fuelled population growth fairly and respectfully.

In order to determine the attitudes of Australians towards freedom of speech, the Centre for Independent Studies commissioned YouGov to poll 2169 Australians in December 2022, with the data weighted by a number of factors, including age, gender, education, socio-economic status and religion. This resultant paper provides an important insight into just what Australians think...