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The Heretic: Inside Peter Ridd’s fight for freedom of speech on climate change is an insiders’ account of Peter Ridd’s ongoing legal battle with James Cook University. It tells the story of why Peter spoke out on the bad science surrounding climate change and the Great Barrier Reef, the extraordinary lengths that James Cook University went to silence him, and how Peter fought back in court
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Thursday May 21, 2020
Episode 2: Unfree Speech
Thursday May 21, 2020
Thursday May 21, 2020
A controversial chapter in the IPA’s Climate Change: The Facts and subsequent interview on Sky News triggers a new round of ‘disciplinary proceedings’ with James Cook University, and Peter faces months of warnings, censures, gag orders and procedurally-dubious ‘star chambers’, culminating in his unlawful sacking from JCU.We’ll also hear from Anne Carter, wife of the late Bob Carter, who was also hounded out of JCU for his views on climate change, and Michael McNally, Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union Queensland, who explains that suppression of intellectual freedom at Australian universities is more common than we think.