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Messages about climate change must be adapted to people’s histories, differences and expectations.
A scholar of gun culture looks at the roots of Americans’ love affair with firearms – and their willingness to accept gun violence as a price of freedom.
When it comes to dealing with Uber’s difficult working conditions, Uber drivers are on their own.
Music has often been used as a political tool to urge Kenyans to forget the sins of colonial and post-colonial regimes.
Our freedom is limited as soon as our speech and behaviour become harmful to other people.
New research shows a large percentage of Australians value “freedom” as the most important human right – but politicians need to offer a more sophisticated version of that ideal.
There is a difference between ‘negative liberty’ and ‘positive liberty’. Real freedom involves unavoidable trade-offs between the two.
The convoy’s comparison of Canada’s current government to Nazi Germany draws on previously existing statephobia.
The Canadian Constitution compels a proportionate weighing of all Charter rights against the threat of COVID-19, meaning that individual freedom is not absolute.
Participants in the “freedom convoy” have been allowed to carry on with minimal police and state interference in contrast to how Black and Indigenous protesters have been treated in the past.
‘Freedom convoy’ protesters are turning the language of freedom against their own governments. The implications and repercussions of this are enormous.
Instead of a self-serving, diesel-stinking, neighbourhood-clogging mob that negatively impacts the freedom of others, the convoy should consider going home and learning about different perspectives.
Many countries, including South Africa, use regulations to control smoking in public so that they do not harm non-smokers. Likewise, getting vaccinated is for the common good of society.
The core of the objections, whether they are about vaccinations, lockdowns, social distancing, or mask wearing, seems to concern an apparent erosion of personal liberty.
Subtly shifting the crafting and delivery of public health messaging on COVID-19 vaccines could go a long way toward persuading many of the unvaccinated to get the shot.
Cash incentives are likely to be effective for people who are willing to get vaccinated, but haven’t done so yet. Freedom incentives could shift those who are unsure or unwilling.
John Locke and John Stuart Mill don’t provide much in the way of justification for ignoring public health advice in a pandemic. Mikhail Bakunin, however…
Frelimo, which governs Mozambique, has squandered the enormous political capital it enjoyed at independence. It now remains in power through violence, intimidation, harassment, and threats.
A privacy expert says citizens will need to exercise their right to public protest if they want to preserve their privacy.
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Griffith University
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor and Chair of History Department, Colorado State University
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Professor of Politics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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PhD Candidate and Research Fellow at the Monash Health [Health and Social Care Unit], Monash University
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Professor of Law, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Law, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Law; Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice, University of Sydney
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Professor of Political Philosophy, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney
