Rudd talking the AUKUS talk in Washington, but is the US walking?
A new FOI reveals Kevin Rudd has been talking the AUKUS talk, with success. But no amount of talk will cause 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."
Transparency. Is Labor’s large majority a threat to truth in government?
Information is the currency of power in a democracy. It’s what allows informed debate and scrutiny of Government. ...
Fat cat salaries and the secretive Remuneration Tribunal
Our top civil servants are being paid exceptionally well by international standards and much more than our Prime ...
Election brinkmanship. Defence Dept mute on East Coast AUKUS bases
The location of Australia's nuclear submarine bases on the East Coast is so sensitive that the Defence Department ...
Maugean Skate – possible cause of extinction … election fever
Something very fishy is going on in relation to the seat of Braddon in Tasmania. And Freedom of Information is ...
Government ignores AUKUS ‘very high risk’ warning from the Admiral in charge
The AUKUS Submarine Project faces huge risks, and the Cabinet knows. But as the Government ships $2B of taxpayers’ ...
What is the War Memorial so desperate to hide?
The Australian War Memorial doesn’t want us to see the full history of Australian operations in East Timor, having ...
To classify or not to classify, that is the (FOI) question
When is a government document classified, and when is it not? Apparently, that is a question of it being subject ...
Secret AUKUS nuclear waste site docs in Cabinet lockdown
The Federal Government has successfully managed to bury, for twenty years, a report into where and how high-level ...
Turnbull Press Club summit: Trump 2.0 means it’s time to strengthen Defence
With Donald Trump overturning assumptions about international order, we must re-examine the fundamentals of our ...
Australia’s Trump cards
Anthony Albanese has it all wrong, writes former senator and submariner Rex Patrick. He’s trying to bribe Trump ...
Radioactive secrets. Fight to hide AUKUS nuclear waste sites gets absurd
Where to store nuclear waste from AUKUS submarines is a decision which will impact us for millennia, but they are ...
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