Economics Professor Stresses the Power of Dissenting Voices

Published on November 20, 2023

Gigi Foster, an economics professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), believes the COVID-19 era revealed how critical it was for dissenting voices to organise and mobilise themselves. In an interview with the Epoch Times at the Australians for Science and Freedom (ASF) Conference—Ms. Foster explained what motivated her to co-found the event. “I realised early in the COVID-19 era that one of the most important things was going to be to organise people who didn’t agree. There were so many policies being implemented which kept people from communicating with each other”, Ms. Foster said. “There was so much organisation on the side of authority and those were the organised structures that were used against us during this time....

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