No doubt many Speccie readers took heart from ANU Chancellor Gareth Evans’s recent suggestion that the business of a university should be to encourage diversity of opinion (rather, the inference being, than to gag it). And the fact that even left-leaning Australian newspapers gave the story coverage suggests that some of their readers still have at least a nostalgic attachment to the notion of free speech.
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