The Shape of Dialogue

Douglas Mark Elliffe is a New Zealand academic and Professor of Psychology at the University of Auckland, where he has been affiliated since 1979 as a student and later as faculty.

He completed his P…

About Travis Brown

https://www.thesignalproductions.com/about

Uncomfortable Truths:  The Reality of Gender Identity Ideology

https://www.thesignalproductions.com/

The Woke Reformation is a documentary …

Critical Race Theory expert Dr. James Lindsay outlines the genealogy of communism and its evolution into woke ideologies.

About Dr. James Lindsay

An American-born author, mathematician, and professiona…

Professor Elizabeth Rata is a sociologist of education in the School of Critical Studies, Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland where she is Director of the Knowledge in …

About Kendall Clements

https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/k-clements

Mātauranga Māori 

Mātauranga Māori with Charles Royal - The Shape of Dialogue Podcast #15

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Bruce Gilley - https://www.nas.org/authors/bruce_gilley

Dr Melissa Derby is a Senior Lecturer teaching early literacy and human development at the University of Waikato's Tauranga campus and online. Melissa completed her PhD at the University of Canterbur…

Jill Ovens is a New Zealand trade unionist, politician, and women's rights advocate. She is the founder, co-leader and National Secretary of the Women's Rights Party.

Before founding the Women's Right…

Dr James Kierstead is a Research Fellow with the Initiative and his main focus will be on higher education policy, including academic freedom.

James holds a BA in Classics from Oxford, an MA in Ancien…

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Sall's X handle - @salltweets

A male named Roxy Tickle, who identifies as a woman, has brought a human rights claim against Sall Grover for not permitting him to use her female-only…

A discussion about liberty, free speech and threats to liberal societies with British journalist and founder of the Free Speech Union, Toby Young.

http://www.tobyyoung.co.uk

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Philosopher

Dr. Peter Boghossian's main focus is bringing the tools of professional philosophers to people in a wide variety of contexts. P…

Michael Johnston

https://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/about-us/our-people/dr-michael-johnston/

Jonathan Ayling

https://www.fsu.nz/meet_the_team

The role of Universities in supporting freedom of speech

The di…

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Jonathan Ayling is Chief Executive of theFree Speech Union. Jonathan has worked in Wellington, the New Zealand capital, for 8 years across roles as a Beehive staffer, senior politi…

https://www.jonathanrauch.com

Jonathan Rauch was brought to New Zealand by the Free Speech Union for a speaking tour in May 2025. See here for more information about the Free Speech Union - https://ww…

Helen Joyce is a journalist and was a staff writer for The Economist between 2005 and 2022. Helen held various leading positions at The Economist, including education editor, Brazil correspondent, In…

Richard Dawkins - https://richarddawkins.com/

In February 2023, Richard Dawkins asked me to host his New Zealand speaking tour. Today's podcast is the Auckland event, in which Richard discusses the sc…

About Nick Matzke - https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/n-matzke

Background

In July 2021, seven University of Auckland professors published a letter to the editor in the New Zealand Listener, titled In Def…

Save Our Schools Report

https://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-media/reports/save-our-schools-solutions-for-new-zealands-education-crisis/document/797

Dr Michael Johnston is a Senior Fellow at the…

Jewher Ilham

https://www.allstaticandnoise.com/

Twitter https://twitter.com/jewherilham

Jewher Ilham: A Uyghur's Fight to Free Her Father (Broken Silence)

https://www.amazon.com/Jewher-Ilham-Uyghurs-Fath…