Secret Defence docs: we need a large civilian workforce for AUKUS nuclear submarine reactors
An internal report that Defence tried to keep secret highlights the high risks involved in growing a civilian ...
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 - www.transparencywarrior.com.au.
Washington Syndrome: Australia’s sovereignty sell-out hidden in plain sight
Defence Minister Richard Marles rolled out some glossy new brochures this week spelling out the composition of the ...
Modular Reactors. Peter Dutton hasn’t done his nuclear homework
Is Peter Dutton’s proposed ‘rollout’ of modular nuclear reactors real policy or just politics? What research has ...
“An Awkward Problem”: Julian Assange and the Australian dog that didn’t bark
Joe Biden says he’s “considering” an end to the prosecution of Julian Assange. Anthony Albanese says, “enough is ...
The cost of needless secrecy on nuclear. What’s the scam?
The Defence Department and the ADF should keep secrets important to protect our national security. But that ...
Orwell revisited. Transparency sucked down the electronic memory hole of disappearing messages
Government officials are using disappearing text messages to circumvent scrutiny, threatening transparency and ...
Spies Like Us: why the Government is still backing Woodside over Timor-Leste
Two decades after the Howard Government spied on Timor-Leste’s seabed boundary negotiating team, the Albanese ...
Government pays lawyers 5x fee estimates to hide advice on how to reduce gas prices. What’s the scam?
The Federal Government is going to extraordinary lengths to prevent the public who pays them seeing a paper that ...
Rex Patrick’s Federal Court win a victory for transparency and a loss for government secrecy
Does a change to a new Minister kill an ongoing FOI to the old Minister? Can a replaced Minister’s dirt be swept ...
AUKwardUS: Peter Dutton’s Albo nuclear wedge may cost us hundreds of billions
Peter Dutton’s proposal for Australia to adopt nuclear power is a dumb idea, but it’s good politics. Anthony ...
The Attorney, the World Court and climate accountability
Australia is about to intervene in a legal case of global significance relating to the obligations of countries to ...
Executive privilege. How to meet with the PM in private. What’s the scam?
According to his own diary, Anthony Albanese met with then Qantas CEO Alan Joyce on 23 November 2022. Yet, ...
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