[1][2] James's re-named The Anglican expressly stated that in its masthead that it incorporated the Church Standard;[3] a number of diocesan newspapers were closed to support its sale.
[9] In turn that led to a notorious brawl at the Anglican Press between Clyde and Kerry Packer, on the one hand, and James and the journalist and former boxer Frank Browne, on the other.
[11] The Anglican was widely read until the mid-1960s, but James ran a strongly anti-Vietnam War editorial line, alienating readers and causing the cancellation of many subscriptions.
[12] Three times The Anglican published scoops about unacknowledged deployments of Australian soldiers to Vietnam, to the rage of the conservative Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies.
[14] In 1963 the acting national president of the Returned Services League, Sir Raymond Huish, issued The Anglican with a writ for defamation, following the publication of an editorial about the RSL entitled "A Cow – Sacred Or Profane?