Between The Lines - Abc Radio National

Defending the right to offend China on campus Last week, Human Rights Watch Australia Director Elaine Pearson was interviewed by the media department at the University of New South Wales about the human rights implications of Hong Kong's new national security law. Her comments on Hong Kong new national security legislation upset some students. They claimed article caused offence to China and demanded the university remove the article. The university temporarily removed the article, but after a public outcry, the article was re-posted with caveats. So how did we get to the point where one of Australia's leading universities agrees to political censorship in favour of another nation state? What should universities do to make sure this does not happen again? Elaine Pearson, Human Rights Watch Australia Director and adjunct law lecturer at the University of New South Wales. Hiroshima 75th anniversary At 8.15am on 6th August 1945, the US Airforce dropped the Little Boy uranium fission bomb on central Hiro