Speak now or lose your freedom

Posted By Bernard Gaynor on Monday, August 7, 2017 5:38 pm | 7 comments

The Liberals’ plan to censor public servants is all kinds of dumb.

Not least of all because of how it will be expanded when Labor gets back in power…

Straight from the horse’s mouth

Posted By Bernard Gaynor on Friday, June 30, 2017 2:06 pm | 8 comments

Now that Yassmin Abdel-Magied believes in ‘free speech’, I’m sure she will delete her tweets backing 18c.

It’s bound to happen any second now…

Why my High Court case is important for every Australian worker

Posted By Bernard Gaynor on Friday, June 2, 2017 3:10 pm | 5 comments

A recent review of my case has highlighted that the law now allows workers to be sacked for privately expressed political views that an employer finds extreme according to their own standards.

That is why my High Court appeal is so important…

Please help

Posted By Bernard Gaynor on Monday, March 20, 2017 2:23 pm | 5 comments

It is humbling to rely on the support of others.

And I need your help now.

Beyond 18c

Posted By Bernard Gaynor on Wednesday, March 15, 2017 4:33 pm | 3 comments

There’s no point repealing 18c if it will just send activist complainants into the arms of even worse state-based anti-discrimination bodies.

Graham Perrett, payments & Defence hypocrisy

Posted By Bernard Gaynor on Tuesday, March 14, 2017 3:30 pm | 5 comments

Hypocrisy anyone?

Defence has signed-up a Labor politician while ‘ordering’ conservatives that it’s against policy for them to express political views – even privately. And then there’s the question of payments…

Time’s running out for 18c

Posted By Bernard Gaynor on Tuesday, January 31, 2017 1:58 pm | 5 comments

Ian Goodenough, the chair of the 18c inquiry, has mirrored comments in my submission calling for laws to focus on racial violence rather than political debate.

That’s good news.

Silence on freedom of speech

Posted By Bernard Gaynor on Monday, January 30, 2017 2:59 pm | 2 comments

When it comes to the inquiry into 18c and free speech, it seems that not everyone is entitled to a say.

The Grand Mufti’s call for an expanded 18c to outlaw anti-Islamic statements has been accepted. But this webpage’s submission is nowhere to be seen, even though it was signed by more than 6,500 Australians and is the most-supported submission before the inquiry…

A surprisingly balanced article

Posted By Bernard Gaynor on Monday, January 30, 2017 10:51 am | 6 comments

The Sydney Morning Herald has – shock – run a balanced article about Kirralie Smith and her battle to defend herself against a defamation claim from a halal certifier.

If you are in Sydney or Melbourne, don’t miss her upcoming fundraising dinners…

138 minutes

Posted By Bernard Gaynor on Thursday, December 1, 2016 10:43 am | 12 comments

It took just 138 minutes yesterday for the NSW Court of Appeal to decide it had heard enough about constitutional and jurisdictional issues to prepare a judgement about the law of the Thought Police and Garry Burns’ complaints against me…