Future Made in Australia? It’s all in the executionBy Rex Patrick | April 28, 2024Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s ‘Made in Australia’ policy could be bad, good or great for Australia, depending ...
Secret Defence docs: we need a large civilian workforce for AUKUS nuclear submarine reactorsBy Rex Patrick | April 26, 2024An internal report that Defence tried to keep secret highlights the high risks involved in growing a civilian ...
Washington Syndrome: Australia’s sovereignty sell-out hidden in plain sightBy Rex Patrick | April 21, 2024Defence 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 homeworkBy Rex Patrick | April 16, 2024Is 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 barkBy Rex Patrick | April 13, 2024Joe 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?By Rex Patrick | April 11, 2024The 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 messagesBy Rex Patrick | April 11, 2024Government officials are using disappearing text messages to circumvent scrutiny, threatening transparency and ...
Spies Like Us: why the Government is still backing Woodside over Timor-LesteBy Rex Patrick | April 5, 2024Two 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?By Rex Patrick | March 26, 2024The 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 secrecyBy Rex Patrick | March 21, 2024Does 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 billionsBy Rex Patrick | March 18, 2024Peter 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 accountabilityBy Rex Patrick | March 16, 2024Australia is about to intervene in a legal case of global significance relating to the obligations of countries to ...