Professor James Allan on Politically Incorrect - 17 September 2022

On today's show we discuss Professor Allan's article, “Good news out of Canada!” in Spectator Australia and about what is possible with Pierre Poilievre now leader of the Conservative opposition.

GUEST OVERVIEW: Professor James Allan is the Garrick Professor in Law at The University of Queensland. Before arriving in Australia in February of 2005 he spent 11 years teaching law in New Zealand at the University of Otago and before that lectured law in Hong Kong. Professor Allan is a native born Canadian who practised law in a large Toronto law firm and at the Bar in London before shifting to teaching law. Professor Allan has published widely in the areas of legal philosophy and constitutional law, including in all the top English language legal philosophy journals in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia, much the same being true of constitutional law journals as well. Professor Allan also has a sideline interest in bills of rights; he is opposed to them. Indeed he is delighted to have moved to a country without a national bill of rights. He has been actively involved in the efforts trying to stop one from being enacted here in Australia. Professor Allan also writes widely for newspapers and weeklies, including The Australian, The Spectator Australia and Quadrant.