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| Top spot on Coalition Senate ticket goes to Institute of Public Affairs researcher | |
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| A 28-year-old researcher with the Institute of Public Affairs has secured the top spot on the Coalition’s Senate ticket in Victoria. | A 28-year-old researcher with the Institute of Public Affairs has secured the top spot on the Coalition’s Senate ticket in Victoria. |
| James Paterson, the deputy executive director of the influential free market think tank, was selected on Sunday night to replace the retiring senator Michael Ronaldson. | James Paterson, the deputy executive director of the influential free market think tank, was selected on Sunday night to replace the retiring senator Michael Ronaldson. |
| He beat out eight others including the legal aid lawyer Karina Okotel, the superannuation policy adviser Jane Hume and the former Victorian upper-house MP Amanda Millar, who lost her seat in the state’s 2014 election. | He beat out eight others including the legal aid lawyer Karina Okotel, the superannuation policy adviser Jane Hume and the former Victorian upper-house MP Amanda Millar, who lost her seat in the state’s 2014 election. |
| Hume was thought to be the favourite having secured the endorsement of the Victorian powerbroker Michael Kroger as part of a bid to boost female representation in the party. | Hume was thought to be the favourite having secured the endorsement of the Victorian powerbroker Michael Kroger as part of a bid to boost female representation in the party. |
| The Liberal party currently has no female Victorian senators after the Motoring Enthusiast party’s Ricky Muir edged out Helen Kroger in 2013. | The Liberal party currently has no female Victorian senators after the Motoring Enthusiast party’s Ricky Muir edged out Helen Kroger in 2013. |
| Paterson told ABC radio he would focus on promoting freedom of speech, including by amending a “disgraceful” provision of the racial discrimination act that had seen News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt ordered to apologise for a 2011 column. | Paterson told ABC radio he would focus on promoting freedom of speech, including by amending a “disgraceful” provision of the racial discrimination act that had seen News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt ordered to apologise for a 2011 column. |
| He said he backed an amendment by the Family First senator Bob Day to continue to ban speech that “intimidates or humiliates” people on the basis of their race but not if they are offended or insulted. | He said he backed an amendment by the Family First senator Bob Day to continue to ban speech that “intimidates or humiliates” people on the basis of their race but not if they are offended or insulted. |
| Sources within the Paterson camp said the researcher “had very little factional support” and delegates had “made up their own minds”. | Sources within the Paterson camp said the researcher “had very little factional support” and delegates had “made up their own minds”. |
| The success was seen by Paterson supporters, a group mostly aged under 35 with roots in Victorian student politics, as “a totemic generational shift for the party”. | The success was seen by Paterson supporters, a group mostly aged under 35 with roots in Victorian student politics, as “a totemic generational shift for the party”. |
| A deal was struck between the Liberals and Nationals to reserve the No 2 spot for the sitting senator Bridget McKenzie. Hume secured third spot on the ticket and Okotel the fourth, with an outside chance of winning a seat. | A deal was struck between the Liberals and Nationals to reserve the No 2 spot for the sitting senator Bridget McKenzie. Hume secured third spot on the ticket and Okotel the fourth, with an outside chance of winning a seat. |
| Paterson, a former staffer for senator Mitch Fifield, conceded he had never had a full-time job outside “the political space, broadly conceived” but he rebuffed suggestions he was an “apparatchik”. | Paterson, a former staffer for senator Mitch Fifield, conceded he had never had a full-time job outside “the political space, broadly conceived” but he rebuffed suggestions he was an “apparatchik”. |
| Another former IPA fellow, the recently resigned human rights commissioner Tim Wilson, is among those contesting the nomination for lower house seat of Goldstein, recently vacated by the retiring Andrew Robb. | Another former IPA fellow, the recently resigned human rights commissioner Tim Wilson, is among those contesting the nomination for lower house seat of Goldstein, recently vacated by the retiring Andrew Robb. |
| Paterson will not need to wait until the election to go to Canberra because Ronaldson has already resigned his seat. Instead he will be named by a joint sitting of the Victorian state parliament, at a date yet to be announced. | Paterson will not need to wait until the election to go to Canberra because Ronaldson has already resigned his seat. Instead he will be named by a joint sitting of the Victorian state parliament, at a date yet to be announced. |