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Entries in Free speech (3)

Friday
Apr252014

Money speech

US Supremes deregulate campaign funding and redefine corruption ... First Amendment to move into corporate religious liberty ... Remembering Ambassador Robert McCallum ... Senate and CIA clash over pending report into torture and black hole prisons ... From Our Man in Washington, Roger Fitch

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Monday
Dec092013

Brandis' secret scheme to stop the presses

Brandis watch ... Uncomfortable straddle on free speech ... Where was Soapy when the "F*** Tony Abbott" T-shirts were being marched off campus ... The attorney general's forgotten "back door" scheme to injunct the media

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Tuesday
Sep182012

What news on the Rialto?

The Tub - a free speech man, after all … Buckled shoes, ruffs and other refinements for Circuit judges? … Martin Bryant's art obsessed lawyer out of the nick … Life after redundancy 

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