Chris Merritt - The Australian - Friday 04 September 2020 James Paterson’s inquiry into class actions and litigation funding has been presented with details of a financial scandal that will make it extremely difficult for the litigation industry to resist the case for reform. The joint parliamentary...
Frank Chung - The Herald Sun - Wednesday 2 September 2020 Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ secretive deal with China has been roundly rejected by voters. A new poll released by the conservative think tank the Institute of Public affairs shows the majority of Victorians want the state government...
Tom Minear - The Herald Sun - Thursday 03 September The Defence Force sent up to 640 soldiers to support the hotel quarantine system in three states, despite Daniel Andrews claiming such assistance was not offered to Victoria. The Herald Sun can reveal 300 ADF personnel were...
Alice Workman - The Australian - Wednesday 2 September 2020 After being accused by the Nine papers of selling only 34 copies of his super(annuation) tome Bad Eggs, Liberal senator Andrew Bragg got in touch to correct the record. He told Strewth that as of Tuesday, the...
Tom Minnear, James Campbell - Herald Sun - Wednesday 2 September 2020 Victorians reject China pact VICTORIANS have overwhelmingly rejected Daniel Andrews' controversial Belt and Road deal with the Chinese government in a series of new opinion polls. A survey of 1040 Victorians, commissioned by the Institute...
John Kehoe - Australian Financial Review - Tuesday September 1 2020 Victorian federal Liberal MPs have slammed Melbourne's blunt lockdown and the state Labor government's contact tracing failures, arguing business restrictions must be eased and health restrictions made sustainable. The rising dissent follows the member for the...
Senator Paterson on Sky News: Inquiry into foreign interference at universities...
Sharri Markson - The Australian - Sunday 30 August 2020 It was with great fanfare in May 2019 that Curtin University announced Brad Yu, a young and talented professor, had been appointed Optus Chair of Artificial Intelligence, to lead the Optus-Curtin Centre of Excellence in Artificial...
Tom Mcilroy - The Australian Financial Review - Friday 28 August 2020 Scott Morrison's move to torpedo agreements signed between foreign powers and state governments could see the end of two Confucius Institute deals with Australian universities. Confucius deals involving the University of Queensland and the University of Adelaide...
Daniel Hurst - The Guardian - Friday 28 August 2020 The Morrison government is facing calls from its backbench to launch its own inquiry into foreign interference in Australian academia, with the head of the powerful security committee saying he is ready and willing to take...