Free speech for some: when conservative hypocrisy meets student activism | Jessica Syed and Madeline Ward

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Last week federal education minister, Dan Tehan, proposed to the vice-chancellors of Australia’s Group of Eight universities that student activists should be responsible for paying the security costs of protests which they organise.

Since the introduction of voluntary student unionism in 2005, the majority of campus activism is carried out with already limited resources. Should students be required to pay to protest, such resources would be further depleted.

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