Dumb Ways to Buy: Defence “shambles” unveiled – former submariner and senator Rex Patrick
"The AUKUS nuclear submarine project will bleed the Australian Defence Force white", on top of the billions in ...
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."
It’s a trap: mooted gas cap plays into the hands of the cartel, locks in high energy prices
National Cabinet is to consider capping the gas price at $12 when National Cabinet meets Friday. At that high ...
Rex Patrick: “exceptional circumstances” choke National Anti-Corruption Commission
Labor may rue the day it mired the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) in secrecy. Transparency warrior Rex ...
Rex Patrick: Government credibility on the line amid Boyle, McBride whistleblower trials
Relentless prosecution of whistleblowers David McBride and Richard Boyle may damage the credibility of Australia's ...
Come on Mr Attorney-General, transparency is more than a cry for opposition benches
Has the government forgotten who employs it? Everyone should get their Freedom of Information requests dealt with ...
A Perfect Slime: Scott Morrison’s slippery Sports Rorts report just the fix for Bridget McKenzie
It's a Sports Rorts whitewash. Scott Morrison's former chief-of-staff and top bureaucrat Philip Gaetjens ...
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 ...
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 ...
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