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Protecting the right to speak, know, and be heard. We defend freedom of expression and the right to access information - because open communication is the foundation of a free society.
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🇦🇺 Australia’s 2025 hate speech laws
explained. What’s protected, what’s criminalised, and what it means for free expression.✊
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#infoRights #NSW #Vic #Protest #Australia
Imagine risking everything to expose war crimes, only to be locked away for it. That's David McBride's reality: a military lawyer silenced for speaking the truth.
Sign here: 👇
informationrights.org/take-action/...
#DavidMcBride #JusticeForMcBride #Whistleblower
Your right to know is your power. ✊ The Freedom of Information (FOI) Act gives you the legal right to access government documents, from reports and policies to files about you.
You can learn more about your freedom of information from The Information Rights Project.
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🗣Julian Assange on The Holberg Debate in 2017: “Propaganda, Facts and Fake News”.
Do you agree with Julian Assange that AI is a threat to humanity?
🎙️ Julian Assange in 2015, a decade ago, and it's still true today. Freedom of speech needs protection.
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Telling the truth shouldn’t come at the cost of your freedom.
Whether it’s journalists, whistleblowers, or ordinary people who speak out, they deserve protection, not punishment.
Standing up for information rights isn’t just about free speech. It’s about defending democracy.
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🗣️The truth matters. So do the people who risk everything to share it.
Watch our latest video 👇 to see why defending information rights is essential to democracy.
#FreedomOfSpeech #RightToKnow #InformationRights
New article by our board member Greg Barns SC, where he explores how chants like “Death to the IDF” are being weaponised to undermine freedom of speech in Australia, and what legal principles we must protect.
📰 Read now: johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07...
#FreeSpeech #HumanRights #PressFreedom
Today is Julian Assange’s 54th birthday.
He’s home, but to secure his freedom, he pleaded guilty to journalism.
📣 Help us reach 15,000 emails demanding a full presidential pardon:
🔗 informationrights.org/take-action/...
#PardonAssange #PressFreedom #JournalismIsNotACrime
Whistleblowers should be protected, not punished. David McBride, a former military lawyer, blew the whistle on war crimes. He acted with integrity, and now he’s behind bars. Your voice matters.
🔗Sign the open letter
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The Information Rights Founder, Gabriel Shipton, joined JOY FM to talk about one year of freedom for Julian Assange, and what comes next.
Listen to the full interview here: 👇
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Julian Assange is free. But journalism remains locked up. Will you help us defend press freedom by emailing the Pardon Attorney today?
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Together, we defend the right to know.
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#Assange #RightToKnow #Transparency #TruthMatters
Our Deputy Chair, Greg Barns SC, spoke with 2CC about the need for protections in Australia for those who speak up.
28.05.2025 23:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The Information Rights Project exists to stand with people and their information rights and ensure they are not left to face the consequences alone.
It draws on the hard lessons of the Assange Campaign and offers practical support to those communicating and accessing information.
Yesterday, we launched The Information Rights Project, a new charity dedicated to supporting journalists, sources, publishers, and their families who share the truth.
Hear Founder and Chair Gabriel Shipton share the story behind the launch.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Freedom of expression isn’t abstract. It’s survival. Without it, democracy dies in darkness.
Join us. Support the fight for the right to know: informationrights.org
These individuals often stand alone. We’re here to change that: with victim advocacy, community organising, research, and public awareness.
25.05.2025 22:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That’s why we’re launching The Information Rights Project: a new charity to protecting the right to speak, know and be heard.
25.05.2025 22:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0But attacks on the truth haven’t stopped. Alarmingly, publishers, journalists, and sources are still being persecuted for sharing information.
25.05.2025 22:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0After 14 brutal years, Julian Assange is finally home.
Not because the system worked - but because a global movement fought together, and helped win, his freedom.
Together, we made the impossible happen. 🧵
Eugene Jarecki, director of Julian Assange film “The Six Billion Dollar Man,” has been awarded the first-ever Golden Globe Prize for Documentary
variety.com/2025/film/gl...
#Assange #EugeneJarecki #GoldenGlobes #Cannes2025
Gabriel Shipton speaks to Efrat Fenigson on You're The Voice about the importance of media freedom, press freedom and freedom of speech.
Full episode available here: youtu.be/0mr1wnVs2kw?...
#GabrielShipton #Asasnge #YoureTheVoice #EfratFenigson
Noam Chomsky speaks with Lawrence Krauss on The Origins Podcast about a little history of freedom of speech in the USA.
Watch the full video here:
youtu.be/VjoAmkonH50?...
#FreedomOfSpeech #Chomsky #PardonAssange #OriginsPodcast #InformationRights
Julian Assange's story is heading to Cannes.
Eugene Jarecki’s The Six Billion Dollar Man lays bare the cost of speaking truth to power.
📖 Read more via Deadline: deadline.com/2025/05/cann...
#JulianAssange #PressFreedom #Cannes2025 #TruthMatters #SixBillionDollarMan
Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Speech - 1948
#Peace #Roosevelt #HumanRights #FreedomOfInformation #Peace
A statement from Julian Assange.
#Assange #PardonAssange #Albo #Albanese #AusPol
🗣President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil - “Last Friday (25th April), I met with journalist and programmer Julian Assange in Rome. We discussed Pope Francis’ commitment to the cause of freedom of expression and the defence of democracy.
#PardonAssange #Assange #Brazil #Lula
