Academic freedom legislation puts too much trust in university managers

Dr Michael Johnston
Dr James Kierstead
The Post
4 October, 2025

Sometime in the first half of 2019, Ji Ruan, a senior lecturer in computer science at Auckland University of Technology, organised an event to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

He no doubt assumed that, in a free country like New Zealand, this would be no problem. And that, if any problems arose, he would have the full support of managers at his institution.

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