John Ferguson and Emily Ritchie - The Australian - Thursday 07 May 2020 The economic misery wrought by COVID-19 in Australia is being targeted by global litigation funding firms, described as a "plague of locusts" using the legal system as a "money-making machine" by backing class...
Senator Paterson on the Bolt Report: Coronavirus restrictions...
Michael Roddan - Australian Financial Review - Monday 04 May 2020 Industry Super Australia will overhaul the assumptions underpinning modelling for its online comparison tools after facing heat from the Treasury and the corporate watchdog over claims it inflated the effect of the government's early-release scheme...
Senator Paterson talks to BBC World Service Radio about the tensions between China and Australia amid Australian government calls for an independent investigation into the origins of Coronavirus....
Eryk Bagshaw, Anthony Galloway, & Darren Gray - The Sydney Morning Herald - Thursday 30 April 2020 Billionaire miner Andrew Forrest has been accused of ambushing the Australian government after he parachuted one of China's top diplomats into an official event, blindsiding Health Minister Greg Hunt. Mr...
Michael Roddan - Australian Financial Review - Thursday 30 April Liberal MPs have piled pressure on the corporate watchdog to investigate Industry Super Australia over Treasury concerns it exaggerated the impact of withdrawing savings under the government's early superannuation access scheme. Senator James Paterson, who chairs the...
Michael Roddan - Australian Financial Review - Wednesday 29 April 2020 Treasury dug in over a spat with Industry Super Australia, demanding the lobby group explain its "significantly higher" estimated impacts of withdrawals under the early access scheme and after a departmental official claimed the over-egged forecasts...
Eryk Bagshaw - The Sydney Morning Herald - Wednesday 29 April 2020 Taiwan has called on Australia to back its campaign to join the World Health Organisation, despite China's objections, arguing it has much to teach the world about tackling coronavirus. Taiwan's Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said...
Sharri Markson - The Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 29 April Exclusive: The lost income from Australian families and businesses as a result of the coronavirus pandemic will total $60 billion in the next few months, according to new economic modelling. The devastation to the Australian economy comes...