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🇦🇺Shadow Minister for Home Affairs & Cyber Security & Liberal Senator for Victoria. Authorised by J Paterson, South Melbourne, VIC

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@SenPaterson
James Paterson
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Artistic freedom is fundamental to who we are as a free society. A very troubling investigation. We have much more work to do to protect our citizens from transnational repression.
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Is China silencing artists in Australia? via @AJEnglish
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James Paterson
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Outstanding leadership from @Deborah_ONeill and Senator David Fawcett on this unanimous, bipartisan motion which clearly articulates Australia’s position on Taiwan. @ipacglobal
@abcnews
ABC News
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Taiwan's de facto embassy in Canberra has heaped praise on Australia after the Senate passed a bipartisan motion criticising China's attempts to use a 50-year-old UN resolution to claim Taiwan as part of its territory.
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Sky News Australia
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Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson says New South Wales police expressing concerns about the Albanese government's visa and security process is a “vote of no confidence”.
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@SkyNewsAust
Sky News Australia
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Shadow home affairs minister James Paterson has demanded the government "explain" the number of visas being granted to Gazan refugees, as new data reveals Australia is accepting more Palestinian arrivals than most other developed countries.
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Under Labor, Australia has taken more people from Gaza since 7 October than almost every developed country in the world. The Albanese government must explain why their rushed tourist-visa process is in our national interest:
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@SkyNewsAust
Sky News Australia
19 days
The Coalition has demanded the Albanese government reject any and all Hamas supporters' visa applications in a hard lined letter to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.
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@NSWJBD
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies
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"The acceptable number of Hamas supporters which should be brought into this country is zero." @SenPaterson is entirely correct. It is shocking and simply unacceptable that individuals who have expressed support for Hamas - a listed terrorist organisation - may be allowed into
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@SkyNewsAust
Sky News Australia
21 days
James Paterson has called on the government to set out the steps it is taking to ensure Hamas supporters are not being let into Australia, after ASIO boss Mike Burgess said Palestinians who expressed "rhetorical support" for the terror group would not be immediately blocked.
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James Paterson
26 days
A significant intervention and not one that would have been lightly made. The government must make clear to the Ambassador that any more transgressions like this will have real consequences, not just a dressing down from a DFAT bureaucrat.
@SharriMarkson
Sharri Markson
26 days
EXCLUSIVE: ASIO Director General Mike Burgess has issued a rare rebuke of the Iranian Ambassador over his inflammatory tweet. Mr Burgess told me: “The comments were disgraceful and, given the current security climate, deeply unhelpful. Inflamed language can inflame emotions and
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James Paterson
26 days
If illegal fishers can get this close to Australia, people smugglers will keep trying their luck too. Tony Burke must urgently reverse the Labor’s failure to deliver aerial surveillance & maritime patrols before this gets worse:
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James Paterson
29 days
The government needs a better answer than “we’re working on it” 7 months after the parliament rushed through powers to protect the community that they are still yet to use, particularly after the previous Minister said in May that 6 applications were close.
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Andrew Clennell
29 days
‘It’s a focus of mine’: Home Affairs, Immigration Minister Tony Burke looking to lock up freed NZYQ detainees | Sky News Australia
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James Paterson
29 days
It’s welcome we now know the final high-risk DJI drones are gone from the federal government. But they are rife across the economy, almost certainly including critical infrastructure. It remains a cyber and national security risk to be addressed.
@SatPaper
The Saturday Paper
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Exclusive: The drones Labor claimed were being used to monitor released asylum seekers were decommissioned for security reasons months before the High Court’s ruling on indefinite detention, @kjbar reports.
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James Paterson
1 month
Direction 110 has failed - just as we warned it would, allowing more violent offenders to avoid deportation. Tony Burke should make ties to the community a secondary consideration as it was under the previous government:
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James Paterson
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39 former detainees have been charged with new offences since they were released into the community. Tony Burke needs to get his stakes on and use the powers the parliament gave the government to protect the community:
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