Free speech in the mall

Green Left Weekly, the Hobart City Council and the Elizabeth Mall
The story behind the fight for the right to distribute a newspaper in a public place.

Hobart Resistance Centre Green Left Weekly home page

Read the reports in Green Left Weekly

Green Left Weekly defies intimidation (7 February 2001)
Free speech threatened in Hobart (31 October 2001)
Hobart Council maintains GLW ban (21 November 2001)
Green Left Weekly defies council ban (5 December 2001)
Opposition to GLW mall ban grows (12 December 2001)
Editorial: Defend the right to dissent! (12 December 2001)
Council denies permit to GLW (16 January 2002)
Partial victory for GLW (13 February 2002)
 

Open letters by Green Left Weekly to the Hobart City Council
Open letter (25 November 2001)
Open letter (28 November 2001)
Read the reports in the Hobart Mercury
Mall sale of paper may be banned (26 November 2001)
Paper sellers defiant on ban (27 November 2001)
Defiant mall stand on principles (28 November 2001)
Mall activity review raised (29 November 2001)
Lawman ignores ban (5 December 2001)
Festive spirit call for Greens (17 December 2001)

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This page was last updated on 23 March, 2003