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Author: James Flynn

I recently completed a book defending free speech. Emerald Press scheduled it for publication but then decided not to proceed. Here’s what it said about the book in Emerald’s September 2019 catalogue:

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Article: https://quillette.com/2019/09/24/my-book-defending-free-speech-has-been-banned/?fbclid=IwAR1veXvcTm7gb8JR93VpPv9LjDensPww-dIAk5JCLNoTAAmX7iKymXAsBAc
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Author: DAVID WILLIAMS

University of Canterbury’s proctor has disciplined law students over a tasteless show that bullied a disabled student. David Williams reports.

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Article: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/09/27/831161/students-punished-for-offensive-law-revue#
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Author: Renee Manella

OPINION: Last Monday, when media asked Winston Peters about changing welfare to really help people rather than leave them below the poverty line, his answer was vague but offered hope: "Not yet... but we will".

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/116122931/mothers-kept-single-by-government-rules-about-relationships-for-beneficiaries
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Author: Bonnie Flaws

Countdown won't sell fireworks this Guy Fawkes Day, a move the supermarket chain says is due to a change in public sentiment.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/116123847/countdown-takes-fireworks-off-the-shelf-as-public-mood-swings-in-favour-of-animal-welfare
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Author: Reuters

A Portuguese court jailed a British pensioner couple for eight years on Thursday for smuggling nine kilos of cocaine into Europe in their luggage on a luxury cruise from the Caribbean.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/09/elderly-couple-jailed-in-portugal-after-cocaine-smuggling.html
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Author: Mark Quinlivan & Jamie Ensor

As if texting and driving wasn't dangerous enough, one woman has been filmed reading a book while commuting to the capital.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/09/woman-filmed-reading-a-book-while-driving-in-wellington.html
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Author: Lana Andelane

A US family have claimed their five-year-old son with autism has been labelled a "sex offender" by his school after he hugged another classmate.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/09/family-of-autistic-boy-5-claim-he-was-labelled-a-sex-offender-after-hugging-classmate.html
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New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless says the now US President Donald Trump "crossed a line" when he asked her out for a date back in 1997.

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Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/entertainment/lucy-lawless-recounts-time-donald-trump-crossed-line-asking-her-date-v1
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