While millionaires and conservative commentators play the free speech victim, the ‘woke’ left has been making a transition of its own.

Cardinal George Pell (Image: AAP/David Crosling)

Freedom of expression has become our national faultline, from the marriage equality debate to coronavirus pandemic lockdowns, writes journalist Malcolm Knox in this extract from his new book Truth is Trouble.

In April 2020, some of Israel Folau’s free-speech fellow-travellers took time out from denying the reality of COVID-19, denouncing “police state” lockdowns and dog-whistling to the tune of the…



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