James Paterson -- The Spectator Australia -- 25 April 2018 Identity politics is a corrosive ideology that will create division and hostility if it’s allowed to take hold – as the latest factional warfare in the Greens has shown. Every political party experiences internal conflict from time to...
James Paterson -- The Spectator -- 26 January 2016 Underlying the campaign to change the date of Australia Day is a barely-concealed hostility to the very existence of Australia as a modern western nation. If you don’t believe January 26 is a milestone worth celebrating, you are...
James Paterson -- The Spectator Australia -- 9 September, 2017 Defenders of the constitution have our work cut out for us. It seems that every day brings a new, novel, bad idea to change the constitution. Whether it’s a referendum to allow foreign citizens to serve...
By Terry Barnes Good on Victorian Liberal Senator James Paterson for his media campaign to sell Jackson Pollock’s drunken daub, Blue Poles, to help pay down the national debt. Forgive the puns, but he’s succeeded in framing the debate about debt reduction in a way that...
James Paterson -- Spectator Australia -- 2 April, 2016 One of the advantages of filling a casual vacancy in the Senate is the short lead time between being chosen by your party to taking up your seat. In my case, it takes just ten days to...