Freedom IndexDebates
Debates showcases discussions and arguments around controversial issues in free speech and censorship. From academic debates to public discourse, this category highlights contrasting perspectives on where to draw the line between expression, safety, and regulation.
It has now been a month since Australia’s under‑16 social media ban—officially known as the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media…
Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life: Jenkins, Tiffany: 9781529034165: Amazon.com: BooksStrangers and Intimates: The Rise and…
As fragmentary reports of mass killings trickle out of Iran, it is difficult to absorb the alleged scale and speed…
I grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles, and as I became aware of the city’s politics, I learned…
Australia has an extraordinary history. For 50,000 years, the inhabitants of this vast island remained largely isolated from the rest…
“These people are frauds and they are grifters and they do not deserve your time.” That’s conservative political commentator Ben…
“Nothing can replace the live testimonies of survivors who smelled, witnessed, and felt on their skin the inhumanity of the…
A Review of Australia: A History by Tony Abbott, 448 pages, Harper Collins AU (February 2026). It is not often…
Getting to Denmark Greenland and the erosion of deep literacy. Read the full article here
“It is certainly a very self-conscious nation that has just made its appearance in the centre of the Southern Seas,”…
Australia may have pulled out of hosting this year’s Commonwealth Games, but in the last fortnight it has been treated…
From the outset, Sydney could hardly have been less like a slave colony. The two most significant books the First…