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In a major blow to micro fringe activist groups, the Federal Minister for education is pressing for a plan of protest bills to be paid by those causing disruption.
Time and again we are seeing speakers invited to Universities shut down by small group of unhinged protesters on campuses, creating noise and disruption, believing that by simply holding a different political view, they have a right to silence opposition.
The next step would be to move this system to the broader publish sphere. Sure, have your right to protest, but that doesn't give a right to use violence or intentionally disrupt an event merely because you hold a differing view.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...e-speech-at-universities-20180921-p5057h.html
"Students and activists who protest at campus events would have to pay for their own security under a plan being pressed upon Australia's major universities by federal Education Minister Dan Tehan.
Mr Tehan put the idea to Group of Eight vice-chancellors on Thursday night as they met to discuss a string of incidents that the Morrison government believe show free speech under threat.
That included a speech by controversial author Bettina Arndt to the Sydney University Liberal Club, which was charged for security. The event was targeted by left-wing students opposed to Arndt's view that there is no such thing as a "rape crisis" on Australian university campuses.
...He has previously suggested universities could bolster their commitments to academic freedom and freedom of speech through a charter modelled on the one adopted by the University of Chicago and other US colleges.
Among other things, the charter declares: "Although faculty, students and staff are free to criticise, contest and condemn the views expressed on campus, they may not obstruct, disrupt, or otherwise interfere with the freedom of others to express views they reject or even loathe."
Time and again we are seeing speakers invited to Universities shut down by small group of unhinged protesters on campuses, creating noise and disruption, believing that by simply holding a different political view, they have a right to silence opposition.
The next step would be to move this system to the broader publish sphere. Sure, have your right to protest, but that doesn't give a right to use violence or intentionally disrupt an event merely because you hold a differing view.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...e-speech-at-universities-20180921-p5057h.html
"Students and activists who protest at campus events would have to pay for their own security under a plan being pressed upon Australia's major universities by federal Education Minister Dan Tehan.
Mr Tehan put the idea to Group of Eight vice-chancellors on Thursday night as they met to discuss a string of incidents that the Morrison government believe show free speech under threat.
That included a speech by controversial author Bettina Arndt to the Sydney University Liberal Club, which was charged for security. The event was targeted by left-wing students opposed to Arndt's view that there is no such thing as a "rape crisis" on Australian university campuses.
...He has previously suggested universities could bolster their commitments to academic freedom and freedom of speech through a charter modelled on the one adopted by the University of Chicago and other US colleges.
Among other things, the charter declares: "Although faculty, students and staff are free to criticise, contest and condemn the views expressed on campus, they may not obstruct, disrupt, or otherwise interfere with the freedom of others to express views they reject or even loathe."
