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 ...
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."
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 ...
A reluctant thank you, Mr Christensen: what we learnt about a travelling MP
Rex Patrick writes that there is clear public interest in constituents of George Christensen and other MPs knowing ...
Gas crisis really a transparency crisis, says architect of the “Trigger” Rex Patrick
As regulator ACCC warns the gas cartel is sending companies to the wall, the political architect of the Gas ...
Rex Patrick on Timor spying: Albanese government’s first secret trial after only 67 days
Rex Patrick is fighting for the release of documents which expose Australia's spying on Timor-Leste to cheat the ...
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