Down Periscope: tragi-comedy of Australia’s submarine travails rolls on
Down Periscope is a submarine comedy; the Australian version is a comedic tragedy. Former Royal Australian Navy ...
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."
Australia, Defence and the anti-Midas touch with submarines
It was revealed at Senate Estimates this week that there’s a corrosion problem with HMAS Sheean, one of our ...
Dutton and Albanese playing nuclear politics. What’s the scam?
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been having a ball calling out Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s lack of ...
Time to regulate ‘Wild West Web’, audit social media algorithms?
Social media algorithms are designed to drive advertising revenue to the platforms, not to benefit users. The ...
Secret Treasury advice. Neither frank nor fearless but dishonest and fearful
Senior officials regularly give advice to Ministers and are paid very well to do so. But how frank and fearless is ...
Future Made in Australia? It’s all in the execution
Prime 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 reactors
An 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 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 ...
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 ...
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