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James Paterson
Director, Communications and Editor, IPA Review
James Paterson is Director, Communications and Editor of the IPA Review. He is a columnist with Think and Grow Rich magazine and is regularly published in The Spectator Australia and ABC's The Drum. His articles have also appeared in The Australian, the Herald Sun, the Australian Financial Review, the Courier Mail, Quadrant and The Punch.
Areas of Expertise: The media, youth policy, campaign finance regulation, US politics
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The Finkelstein Report into Media and Media Regulation is not just a massive threat to freedom of the press. It's also a blatant attack on free speech. It's remarkable that in the twenty first century, in a liberal democracy like Australia, that a...
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