Public protest or selfish ratbaggery? Why free speech doesn't give you the right to endanger other people's health
- Written by Hugh Breakey, President, Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics. Senior Research Fellow, Moral philosophy, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Law Futures Centre., Griffith University
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in major Australian cities at the weekend, to protest the rolling lockdowns that have formed a central part of the government response to the COVID pandemic.
In some cases, the protests were illegal and in breach of lockdown orders. More seriously still, the protests in Sydney took place even as the...





