Tag: Rex Patrick

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Rex Patrick v Mark Dreyfus court battle a big win for political integrity
Rex Patrick v Mark Dreyfus court battle a big win for political integrity

Rex Patrick v Mark Dreyfus court battle a big win for political integrity

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Orwell revisited. Transparency sucked down the electronic memory hole of disappearing messages – Michael West

1984 is nowGovernment officials are using disappearing text messages to circumvent scrutiny, threatening transparency and risking democracy. Rex Patrick exposes a dangerous practice ignored by the PM.

Source: Orwell revisited. Transparency sucked down the electronic memory hole of disappearing messages – Michael West

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Peter Dutton’s India escape and the secret meetings with the colourful coal baron – Michael West

Peter Dutton, India

Last November, at the time the Coalition were furiously bashing ‘Airbus Albo’ for his penchant for overseas travel, Peter Dutton paid a low-key visit to India. Rex Patrick and Philip Dorling take a look at the Opposition Leader’s trip, which included a private dinner with an Indian billionaire with coal interests in Australia.

Source: Peter Dutton’s India escape and the secret meetings with the colourful coal baron – Michael West

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Project blowouts. They know it, but they won’t show it. – Michael West

See no evil...

Government contractors have to report on their performance every month. When there is a cost blowout or progress is behind schedule, the department responsible for the spending knows about it, but we rarely do. What’s the scam?

Source: Project blowouts. They know it, but they won’t show it. – Michael West

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Vision 2024: aim to “make Australia a better quarry” … and a CO2 dump – Michael West

Albanese in a Rio shirt

The Government has been happy to have Australia be the world’s quarry. But now, Labor is shaping a role for us as the world’s CO2 dump.

Source: Vision 2024: aim to “make Australia a better quarry” … and a CO2 dump – Michael West

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Rex Patrick’s Transparency and Opaqueness Awards 2023 – Michael West

Did 2023 see more or less transparency from Government? Is the Albanese Government more or less transparent than the Morrison Government? Transparency Warrior Rex Patrick looks back to answer these questions and give out some awards, many of them likely not wanted.

Source: Rex Patrick’s Transparency and Opaqueness Awards 2023 – Michael West

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How to make sure RoboDebt could never happen again: ditch Westminster, embrace the republic – Michael West

While “Governing” dominates the historic mindset and is passed down generationally we will remain a Colony whose interests lie in serving someone else rather than the people of this nation. It’s time to say YES to remind us on whose land this nation was born and YES to a Republic for who future governments should be elected to serve, ALL its people. The French did it with a Revolution we can do it with a referendum ballot box.

In RoboDebt’s wake, our very system of government needs to be bulldozed and rebuilt. Rex Patrick argues it is time for a republican model, for separation of powers.

Source: How to make sure RoboDebt could never happen again: ditch Westminster, embrace the republic – Michael West

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Michael West Media – investigative journalists – always independent

Revealed: Peter Costello’s Future Fund has $280m punt on the pokies, lotteries and online gambling

Peter Costello’s Secret Sovereign Investment Fund

Australia’s sovereign wealth fund manages more than $200 billion of taxpayer’s funds but does so with a notorious penchant for secrecy. This third instalment in a series from Rex Patrick and Philip Dorling shines a spotlight on the Future Fund’s surprising gambling stake.

Source: Michael West Media – investigative journalists – always independent

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Want to give First Nations real power in Canberra? Rex Patrick reckons a vote is preferable to a Voice – Michael West

Let me be upfront: I’ll be voting for the Voice to Parliament. But I won’t be voting yes because I think it will give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people any substantial influence on national policy. Rather I’ll be voting yes because it’s the only option on the table to give Indigenous Australians at least some recognition in our Constitution.

Source: Want to give First Nations real power in Canberra? Rex Patrick reckons a vote is preferable to a Voice – Michael West

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Kathryn Campbell – from RoboDebt ignominy to plum Defence job with the PM’s help – Michael West

Kathryn Campbell

“Many who suffered RoboDebt are getting $350 per week while Campbell is receiving $17,100 per week. Every day she sits in Defence is a day of insult to those who suffered from the RoboDebt scheme. Rightly, there is anger in the community. Albanese must act.” (MWM)

Kathryn Campbell is well known in the parklands and on the footpaths where some of Australia’s most disadvantaged live. Witnesses at the RoboDebt Royal Commission made her the face of the governance scandal. But in stark contrast to those affected by RoboDebt, she now sits in a plum job inside the Department of Defence on her old $900K salary. Former senator Rex Patrick examines the ins and outs.

Source: Kathryn Campbell – from RoboDebt ignominy to plum Defence job with the PM’s help – Michael West

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Rex Hex: PM’s office backflips, refuses to release Albo’s diaries – Michael West

What's the scam?

Now an explanation is needed

After telling Rex Patrick his PM’s Diary FOI request would be processed for $1,344, and after Rex paid the deposit, the Prime Minister’s Office has backflipped and is now refusing to process the request for 29 pages on the grounds that doing so “would substantially and unreasonable interfere with the performance of the [Prime] Minister’s functions”. What’s the scam?

Source: Rex Hex: PM’s office backflips, refuses to release Albo’s diaries – Michael West