Corina Shields: Independent Media and the Stories Nobody Covers
Corina Shields returns to Free to Speak. As producer of Shubz Says So, she helped build one of the most talked about shows on independent Ne...
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The official podcast of the Free Speech Union. Focused on protecting and promoting freedom of expression in New Zealand, the Free Speech Union Podcast hosts interviews with international and...
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20 of 207 episodesAndrew Doyle: How Blasphemy Laws Are Returning as 'Harm' and 'Islamophobia' | Free to Speak
Comedian, broadcaster and author Andrew Doyle, creator of the satirical persona Titania McGrath, joins Dane Giraud to unpack how Britain is...
Stephen Rainbow: Homosexual Law Reform, Free Speech and 1986
In 1986 Stephen Rainbow marched with HUG, Heterosexuals Unafraid of Gays, while living as a married father who had not yet come out. Forty y...
Juliet Moses: Artists, Donors and Who Owns the Stage | Free to Speak
Juliet Moses is a lawyer, President of the New Zealand Jewish Council, and the author of "Biting the Hand", a Quillette essay on what happen...
Frances Widdowson: Kamloops, unmarked graves and academic freedom
Frances Widdowson is a Canadian political scientist. She was an associate professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary until her dismissal...
Shubz: Called a Kūpapa for Talking to the Wrong People
Shubz has been called a kūpapa. The word describes Māori who sided with the Crown in the New Zealand Wars, and it still gets thrown at Māori...
Paul Moon: Killing Te Reo Māori | Free to Speak
In 2018, historian Paul Moon published a book arguing that te reo Māori is on course to disappear as a living language, and that almost ever...
Elliot Ikilei: Can a Conservative Truly Support Free Speech? | Free to Speak
Elliot Ikilei, former New Conservative leader, key figure in Hobson's Pledge, and now New Zealand First's 2026 candidate for Takanini, joins...
Douglas Brown - VPN Bans, a Banned Film and 'Trusted News'
Erica Stanford says a VPN ban was never on the table. Barrister and Free Speech Union Council Member Douglas Brown isn't convinced. Douglas...
Brian Boyd — Nabokov, Lolita, and a History of Censorship | Free to Speak
New Zealand banned it. So did France, Australia and South Africa, and every American publisher who saw the manuscript in 1954 turned it down...
Ani O'Brien: Why NZ Needs Good Faith Yarns, Not Shouting Matches | Free to Speak
This winter, Ani O'Brien is taking the Good Faith Yarns Tour around the country: honest, good faith conversations with locals in towns and c...
Laura McClure: The Deepfake Bill, Free Speech, and Where the Law Draws the Line | Free to Speak
ACT MP Laura McClure joins Dane Giraud to talk about her Deepfake Digital Harm and Exploitation Bill, which passed its first reading unanimo...
Arrested for a Facebook Post: Ben Jones on Britain's Free Speech Collapse
Dr Ben Jones, Director of Case Management at the UK Free Speech Union, joins host Dane Giraud to discuss his new book, Island of Strangers,...
Corina Shields: "Te Pāti Māori Doesn't Speak For All Of Us" | Free to Speak
"I have always been the big-mouth Māori that says things we're not supposed to say." Corina Shields — better known online as Aunty Heihei (@...
Is Prayer Now Criminal? Bob McCoskrie on NZ's Conversion Therapy Law
Is it now a criminal offence to pray for someone struggling with gender confusion? Could a parent face prosecution for affirming their child...
Young Men Right, Young Women Left - And Why That Spells Disaster | Michael Johnston
Young men drifting to the Right is the half of the story everyone is reporting. The other half — young women radicalising Left at an even fa...
Former BSA Board Member on Why Abolishing It Was the Wrong Call - Pulotu Tupe Solomon-Tanoa'I
Pulotu Tupe Solomon-Tanoa'I served four years on the Broadcasting Standards Authority. With the BSA now set to be abolished by the Coalition...
Peter Boghossian: The Crisis of Honesty | Free Speech, Hard Conversations & What's Gone Wrong
"There is a crisis of honesty — and we're seeing the consequences in every sphere of life." American philosopher Peter Boghossian — author o...
Banning Teens From Social Media Pushes Them Into Darker Corners Online - David Inserra
We weigh the push for an under-16 social media ban against what it would take to enforce it and what it would cost in privacy, anonymity, an...
Karl Marx was a free speech warrior - with László Molnárfi
We talk with Irish organiser Laszlo Manafi about why class-first socialism is clashing with the liberal left, and how that split shapes ever...