No Right Turn

National has introduced its new anti-homeless law to Parliament , and it will receive a first reading next week (which puts them up against ...

Yesterday the Education and Workforce Committee released its report into online harm to young people, recommending (among other things) a b...

Aotearoa has had a public health system since the First Labour Government in the 1930s. And for as long as it has existed, medical professio...

Earlier in the month, the British government proscribed Palestine Action , a peaceful protest group, as a terrorist entity, over their effec...

Back in February, the "Independent" Police Conduct Authority issued a radical, out-of-the-blue proposal to ban protests . The core...

As the government - or one of its Ministers, anyway - keeps reminding us, Parliament is meant to be a place of free speech, where MPs (but n...

People are rightly outraged about psycho fascist Parmjeet Parmar "inquiring" about using the privileges committee to arbitrarily i...

The "Independent" Police Conduct Authority issued a radical report today, a Review of the policing of public protests in New Zeala...

Just before Parliament was dissolved for the election, Labour introduced legislation to "get tough" on ramraiders, promising to ja...

Earlier in the year we saw the usual story: a "prominent political figure" (who was not an MP) had been charged with some unpleasa...

The internet is how people communicate now, and social media has become a natural platform for sharing dissent and organising protests. As a...

In the wake of the March 15 terror attack, the inquiry recommended tougher hate-speech laws. And after dragging their feet on it for a full ...

In 2017, in response to being criticised by anonymous bloggers, then-Samoan Prime Minister Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi restored t...

In the eighteenth century, the British government waged a campaign of repression against those calling for democracy and an end to the mona...

Last year, Vanuatu passed a "cyber-libel" law. And predictably, its first targets are those trying to hold the government to accou...

The Herald reports that a man who recoded a violent rant calling for genocide of Māori has been convicted for hate speech : Richard Jacobs...

Last night I did a last-minute submission on the international treaty examination of the UK-NZ Free Trade Agreement , focusing on the issue ...

Today the government released its proposals to criminalise hate speech . There's a full discussion document here , but the key change is...

Today the Speaker referred the High Court judgement in Staples v Freeman to the Privileges Committee. Its not surprising. The court in its ...

Australia is one of the few western democracies not to have legal protection for fundamental human rights. The closest they come is recognis...