The High Court’s decision to exempt Indigenous people from aspects of Australia’s immigration law amounts to a radical change to constitutional law that will have profound implications for many years to come. Ruling in the case of Love v Commonwealth; Thoms v Commonwealth[1], a narrow High...
Joe Kelly - The Australian - Friday 10 July 2020 Australia faces the risk of US-style “divisive and partisan” battles over High Court appointments unless greater efforts are made to pick judges who will uphold the sovereignty of parliament and the people’s role in shaping public...
The High Court decision to create an effective indigenous exemption to the Migration Act amounts to a radical change to constitutional law. It highlights the risks of enshrining an indigenous voice to parliament in the Constitution and demonstrates the need to consider judicial philosophy when...
GREG BROWN - THE AUSTRALIAN - 12 JULY 2019 Warren Mundine and Liberal MPs are calling for the indigenous voice to parliament to be exempted from constitutional recognition, declaring the proposal would fail to win public support in a referendum. Mr Mundine, a prominent Aboriginal figure who...
DAVID CROWE - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - 11 JULY 2019 The Morrison government's plan for Indigenous recognition will need to clear the threat of a backbench veto, as Liberals and Nationals air their doubts about the constitutional reform after an ambitious new deadline was set to...
Please find attached Senator Paterson’s appearance on Sky News’s Newsday this morning. Senator Paterson joined host Sky News host Tom Connell to discuss ministerial appointments, indigenous recognition, and the franking credits system....
James Paterson -- The Age -- 24 July, 2017 The Referendum Council's narrow, take it or leave it approach to constitutional recognition is unlikely to be approved by the Australian people. The Referendum Council's final report to Parliament is even more remarkable than last month's Uluru Statement from the...
James Paterson -- The Australian -- 2 June, 2017 Indigenous Australians should be properly consulted on policies that affect them. But that can be achieved without radical constitutional change. The full implications of the Uluru Statement from the Heart will be clear only when the Referendum Council’s...
Senator Paterson joined Peter van Onselen to discuss the Census, the Constitutional recognition debate and Kevin Rudd's failed bid to become UN Secretary General. ...