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Tinpot Torquemadas

20 April 2019

9:00 AM

20 April 2019

9:00 AM

Just when freedom of speech has been under attack through the Passion of Israel Folau, this week proved the ‘woke’, no-platformers and intellectual latte-sippers don’t always get their own way.

The Federal Court struck a ringing blow for freedom in finding James Cook University wrongly and unjustly censured and then dismissed professor Peter Ridd for challenging the climate change zeitgeist.

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