About the Author About this Blog This blog speaks freely about law, politics and the internet. While the focus is on Australia, developments in other nations around the world are considered as well. Background The title of this blog is inspired by the Opinion of the US Supreme Court in Board of Education v Barnette 319 US 624 (1943): "But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."