The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 80 with Senator James Paterson and Dr Bella d’Abrera

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This week James and Pete talk about Wayne Swan’s opinions on the IPA, university chancellors standing up for free speech on campus, Kanye West’s SNL performance, the academics who showed you can get anything published in journals these days and James’ appearance on The Bolt Report last night. We talk to Senator James Paterson about his two recent articles on red tape and academic free speech and him launching the new book from IPA Research Fellow Matthew Lesh ‘Democracy in a Divided Australia (17:40-33:50). We also talk to the IPA’s Dr Bella d’Abrera about her new article for Quillette, getting her article tweeted out by Dr Jordan Peterson and her upcoming trip to Israel (33:54-48:17).

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James Bolt was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs
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