Legislative harakiri. A rare win for transparency as FOI bill dead
The Albanese Government's attempt to further limit transparency has been killed off. Widely condemned and ...
Rex Patrick
Rex Patrick is a former Senator for South Australia and, earlier, a submariner in the armed forces. Best known as an anti-corruption and transparency crusader, Rex is also known as the "Transparency Warrior."
“Pack of Mongrels”. Politics beats extinction of Maugean Skate
A decision brief on protecting the threatened Maugean Skate shows that the Labor Government puts wildlife ...
Bondi Beach bounty – $5000 a day
Is public service pay too high? Head of Bondi Beach massacre inquiry Dennis Richardson jags $5,000 a day for ...
Fat Cat bureaucrats. Rem Tribunal out of touch, out of sight
While top bureaucrats are now earning one million a year, the tribunal that decides who gets what is doing its ...
Spurning the Black Rod. Labor’s transparency dummy spit
Only Parliamentary nerds noticed. One such nerd Rex Patrick noticed and reports on a transparency dummy spit by ...
Submarine boasts, yet nuclear waste dumps submersed in secrecy
As the SA Premier basks in the campaign glory of a $3.9 billion downpayment on a shipyard for nuclear subs planned ...
Gambling advertising ban. Labor odds-on to do nothing
Doing nothing on gambling advertising isn’t enough for the Albanese Government; they want to ensure nobody does.
Shouted down by common sense. The end of Albo’s secrecy bill?
It entrenches and broadens government secrecy and contradicts the transparency pledge Anthony Albanese made when ...
“Someone got to the Minister”. How fossil politics buried emissions data
Why did the Albanese Government eliminate billions of tonnes of fossil fuel carbon emissions from public view. Rex ...
Hate Speech. Protecting Israel’s reputation in Australia just got cheaper
Israel’s reputation is treated as a strategic asset to be managed in Western media and political domains. Rex ...
The science of sacking. Be gone CSIRO scientists!
CSIRO chief Doug Hilton announced he’s sacking 350 scientists, but the $965K pa head of the science body now ...
Donroe doctrine. Trump, Australia and the ‘Rules Based Order’
President Trump has adopted the position that in international relations, ‘might is right’. What does that mean ...
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