Lawyers’ picnic: cost of government advice escalates as big law firms ride $1bn gravy train
Law firms the big winners in government funded litigation bonanza. Rex Patrick reports on the lawyers' picnic, the ...
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."
Trigger shy: dithering on the obvious fix for gas and electricity bills costs every Australian
A simple solution to the gas crisis and rising energy bills is being ignored. In WA they earmark a portion of gas ...
Rex Patrick: has the Australian Senate lost its mojo?
The Senate has greater powers than a royal commission yet in recent years its authority has declined amid refusals ...
Prime Minister’s department ordered to come clean on Sports Rorts cover-up
The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet has been ordered to hand over the Gaetjens Report into the Sports ...
A sickening thought: medical fund secrecy is a corruption incubator
Secrecy around a huge $20bn fund for government grants, Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), makes it a corruption ...
AUKUS was a tough sell already, and now it seems local industry will miss out
When Australia signed up to the AUKUS pact, it committed to enormously expensive nuclear-powered submarines. And ...
Falk Lines: Information Commissioner fights for the right to hide information indefinitely, que?
Information Commission, Angelene Falk, will argue in the Federal Court that she can take forever to handle FOI ...
“Be honest for once”: cost of secret trials rises as Government covers-up Timor spying fiasco
The Timor-Leste secret spy trials are not over, with costs already $5m and rising, Rex Patrick writes the ...
Spies Like Us: how Timor’s oil and gas delivered justice to Bernard Collaery
The prosecution of Bernard Collaery was dropped after pressure from Timor-Leste and fears of China's expansion. ...
Rex Patrick: will Timor-Leste become China’s latest aircraft carrier?
In the wake of Scott Morrison and Marise Payne's disastrous foreign affairs stewardship, Penny Wong jets to ...
Transparency Paradox: Morrison flayed for secrecy as Albanese blocks access to government meetings
While the media is flaying the political corpse of Scott Morrison, and quite deservedly over the former prime ...
There is no place for secret ministers in Australian democracy
The secret-minister revelations confirm Scott Morrison as Australia's worst PM since William McMahon and Christian ...
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