[...] Over the course of the next few weeks, New Zealanders will learn how much their freedom of expression is going to be curtailed by the Coalition Government. The Justice Minister, Andrew Little, will make known his Cabinet colleagues’ position on “hate speech” and to what degree it will soon be possible to claim that one’s culture and/or religion has been “defamed”, and to seek legal remedies for the “harm” inflicted.

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Known principally for his political commentaries in The Dominion Post, The ODT, The Press and the late, lamented Independent, and for "No Left Turn", his 2007 history of the Left/Right struggle in New...