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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia's highest court Wednesday dismissed an intellectual freedom claim by a university physicist who was fired in part

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's highest court Wednesday dismissed an intellectual freedom claim by a university physicist who was fired in part over his public statements that scientists exaggerated damage to the Great Barrier Reef caused by climate change.

Every Australian has lost both money and freedom as a result of the High Court’s ruling in the case of former James Cook University professor Peter Ridd today.

All Australian universities have now adopted policies to strengthen and protect free speech on campus, two years after ...

Australia’s highest court yesterday dismissed an intellectual freedom claim by a university physicist who was fired in part over his public statements that scientists exaggerated damage to the Great Barrier Reef. Five High Court judges unanimously dismissed physicist Peter Ridd’s claim that he had been unlawfully dismissed in 2018 by James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland. The court ruled that a clause in his employment contract that protected his intellectual freedom was not a “general freedom of speech” clause and did not protect him from being fired for serious misconduct u...