Patrick Durkin and Aleks Vickovich - Australian Financial Review - Monday 01 February 2021 Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is being urged by influential MPs to quickly trigger a major shake-up of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission, including restructuring the commission and returning to a black-letter law...
Should the ABC intervene in the Australia Day Debate? Vaccine approved. Senator Paterson on Sky...
Senator Paterson on ABC Radio News: Foreign policy is not Albo's strong suit....
Ellen Whinnett - The Daily Telegraph - Saturday 16 Jan 2021 Exclusive: Chinese government proxies are believed to be behind a disgusting cyber attack launched against Canberra journalist and researcher Vicky Xu. The keyboard cowards put together a series of videos making defamatory and highly-personal claims about Ms...
John Kehoe - The Australian Financial Review - Friday 15 January 2021 As Josh Frydenberg ponders the corporate regulator's future leadership personnel and structure, a big question hanging over the Treasurer is whether a lawyer or an economist should lead the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. Lawyers...
Chris Merritt - The Australian - 08 January 2021 John Howard will not be happy about this. But the unforeseen consequences of a decision taken by his government have helped divert millions of dollars from the business community into the coffers of one of the Labor...
Chris Merritt - The Australian - Friday 01 January 2021 It’s almost possible to feel a twinge of sympathy for the titans of Melbourne’s class action industry. For one glorious year it must have looked as though all their Christmases had come at once. At the...
Charlotte Grieve - Sydney Morning Herald - Tuesday 22 December 2020 A federal committee tasked with probing litigation funders has recommended tough new regulations for class actions, including a crackdown on fees and new laws to stamp out competing claims. The financial services committee headed by Liberal...
Adeshola Ore - The Australian - Tuesday 22 December 2020 Ligation funders would be forced to return a minimum of 70 per cent of proceeds from a case to class action participants, under reforms proposed by government MPs. The Morrison government’s crackdown on litigation funders this year...
Ben Packham - The Australian - 22 December 2020 Victorian Liberal senator James Paterson has emerged as the frontrunner to replace Andrew Hastie as chairman of the parliament's powerful intelligence and security committee. Senator Paterson is understood to have the support of Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton...