‘Academics have a right to be offensive and shocking’: Andrew Timming on free speech

Free Speech Union of Australia’s Professor Andrew Timming says academics “have a right” to be “offensive and shocking”. Mr Timming sat with Sky News host Caroline Marcus to discuss the hate he receives when he comments on the Me Too movement and freedom of speech. “First thing I would say is that I have published and peer-reviewed journals on the Me Too movement before, so I have every right to comment publicly on this particular matter,” he said. “I understand that some individuals may have been offended by the tweet, I understand that there were a number of complaints that were made to the university. “But that’s neither here nor there.”