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 ...
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."
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 ...
Government pays lawyers 5x fee estimates to hide advice on how to reduce gas prices. What’s the scam?
The Federal Government is going to extraordinary lengths to prevent the public who pays them seeing a paper that ...
Rex Patrick’s Federal Court win a victory for transparency and a loss for government secrecy
Does a change to a new Minister kill an ongoing FOI to the old Minister? Can a replaced Minister’s dirt be swept ...
AUKwardUS: Peter Dutton’s Albo nuclear wedge may cost us hundreds of billions
Peter Dutton’s proposal for Australia to adopt nuclear power is a dumb idea, but it’s good politics. Anthony ...
The Attorney, the World Court and climate accountability
Australia is about to intervene in a legal case of global significance relating to the obligations of countries to ...
Executive privilege. How to meet with the PM in private. What’s the scam?
According to his own diary, Anthony Albanese met with then Qantas CEO Alan Joyce on 23 November 2022. Yet, ...
AUKUS risks unveiled – is Australia sleepwalking into a submarines disaster?
It’s risk that brings down projects. Over the past month a number of serious risks have materialised in the AUKUS ...
Bushmaster Brush: Indonesia says no thanks to Marles’ military gifts
Defence Minister Richard Marles has a proven, through AUKUS, he’s a naïve and incompetent buyer. He’s also proven, ...
What’s the scam with Snow Hydro 2.0 Chris – are they boring a secret bottomless money pit?
It’s a document that purports to explain $6 billion in public expenditure. Yet Minister Chris Bowen is putting ...
Senior public servant gravy train: all profit and no accountability
Fat cat salaries, a post-career gravy train at their disposal and ‘gongs’ pinned on chests? Rex Patrick looks at ...
Subs, frigates and other vessels. Don’t drink the minister’s navy shipbuilding Koolaid
Defence Minister Richard Marles is hoping today’s announcement about the restructuring of the Royal Australian ...
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