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Happy Friday!


Forecast says our dismal weather is going to continue — where better to escape the cold and rain than the Adam Smith Institute?!

We have two exciting events coming up next week which are sure to impress.


** TNG with Toby Young, Tuesday, 10 March
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First up on Tuesday the 10th at 6pm is our March TNG meeting featuring none other than Toby Young. Our The Next Generation meetings are for under-35s interested in politics, economics, and public policy.

He’ll be discussing his newly founded Free Speech Union. Young has had a long career as a journalist and author as well as working in education policy. The rise of cancel culture and ‘non-crime hate incidents’ is worrying for many of those who believe in the value of free speech and open debate.

It has led to Young founding the Free Speech Union, ‘a non-partisan, mass-membership organisation that stands up for the speech rights of its members.’ By mobilising to counter those calling for one of its members to be fired, the Union aims to help defend the ‘bedrock of all our freedoms.’

If you know anything about Toby Young, you’ll know not to miss this event!

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** Evening lecture with Dr Chris Berg,
Thursday 12 March
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Join us on Thursday 12th March at 6pm for Dr Chris Berg, Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director of the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub. He’ll be discussing his forthcoming book — The New Technologies of Freedom — in which he talks about how innovative new technologies offer us a radical opportunity to enhance human freedom and individual autonomy.

Berg is one of Australia’s most prominent advocates for liberty and author nine books. The Cato Institute praised the “wit and grace” of his book Liberty, Equality & Democracy, and the Sydney Morning Herald described his The Libertarian Alternative as “spirited and sometimes wry”.

His lecture will take a look at emerging technologies and their interaction with political freedom. Human society is on the cusp of a dramatic wave of technological change, including developments in blockchain, automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advances in cryptography and digitisation, drones, nanotechnology, algorithmic regulation, internet-of-things, 5G, biotechnology, and genetic engineering.

The next few decades will be a clash between governments that want to regulate and control technology, and those who want to use those technologies to reclaim those liberties. It is essential that the liberty movement engages in this debate as soon as possible.

Hear from one of the leaders of Australia’s free market movement and authority on technological change and regulation and ask any pressing questions you may have!
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