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* Contents derived from the 2013 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Committed to Creating Spaces For Marginalised Voices,
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'Miriam Cosic, the former literary and arts editor of The Australian, recognises the importance of freedom of expression. Born and raised in Melbourne, she now lives in Sydney where she has written two books, Only Child and The Right to Die. Miriam Cosic has just joined the Sydney PEN Management Committee. Rose Fittler reports.'
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Viewing the Challenges to Free Speech in Australia Through the Prisms of Power,
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(p. 12-13)'Broadcaster, writer, commentator and lawyer Waleed Aly focuses on the discourse of power and its fundamental relationship to free speech in his Free Voices lecture at the Sydney Writers’ Festival. He says the key function of free speech is the ability to hold power to account and to uphold the right of the powerless to speak their mind in the face of the powerful. Report by Francesca Millena'
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Free Speech Vilification and Power,
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(p. 14-19)'PEN’s Free Voices lecture series was designed to explore the diverse perspectives of a range of writers exploring the concepts of freedom to read, freedom to write, freedom to speak. In his 2013 Free Voices lecture, broadcaster and writer Waleed Aly argues that as long as considerations of power are excluded from our debates on free speech, the debates are destined to be distorted.'
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