Olivia Caisley and Nicola Berkovic - The Australian - Thursday 20 February 2020 Government MPs are sounding the alarm ahead of two High Court vacancies amid concerns judges hand-picked by former attorney-general George Brandis have ventured into judicial activism, straying from a “black letter approach to...
Ellen Whinnett - Herald Sun - 20 February 2020 In the 1984 movie Red Dawn starring Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen, a brave group of high school kids form a resistance group and repel a Soviet invasion of the United States. They call themselves the Wolverines, after their...
Edmund Tadros - The Financial Review - Wednesday 19 February The big four consulting firms —Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC — are set to remain in the spotlight of a parliamentary committee looking into audit quality following a successful Labor push to extend the inquiry by...
Patrick Commins and Richard Ferguson - The Australian - Wednesday 19 February 2020 Josh Frydenberg is refusing to abolish the luxury car tax that forces Australians to pay thousands of dollars more on imported vehicles priced at more than $67,500 — even though the tariff was...
AJN Staff - Australian Jewish News - Wednesday 19 February 2020 In a Senate speech commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Victorian Liberal Senator James Paterson recounted the “Nazi ideology was the normalisation of antisemitism” which led to the depravity of the Holocaust. “It...
Senator Paterson on ABC News 24 with host Patricia Karvelas, and fellow panellist Ed Husic MP discussing emissions reduction, Luxury car tax, Uighurs. ...
Judith Ireland - The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 14 February 2020 Coalition MPs and church leaders have dismissed a call for the government's religious discrimination bill to be scrapped, with the chair of the committee set to review it warning "we should not let perfect...
Paul Karp - The Guardian - Friday 14 February 2020 Coalition MPs and conservative religious leaders have rejected a call by senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells to scrap the government’s religious discrimination bill and aim instead for a consolidation of all discrimination laws. Bishop Michael Stead, the chair of the...
MEDIA STATEMENT Senator James Paterson Liberal Senator for Victoria Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services Chair’s statement Wednesday 12 February 2020 Senate motion passed to extend auditing inquiry reporting date to September: “The committee has worked hard to meet the original deadline set by the Senate and is ready to...