#  @MrRexPatrick Rex Patrick Rex Patrick posts on X about australia, defence, foi, money the most. They currently have [------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::926019424154349568/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] -43% - [--] Month [-------] +22% - [--] Months [---------] -52% - [--] Year [---------] -70% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::926019424154349568/posts_active)  - [--] Month [--] -68% - [--] Months [---] -15% - [--] Year [---] -48% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::926019424154349568/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.14% - [--] Month [------] +0.18% - [--] Months [------] +0.98% - [--] Year [------] +3% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::926019424154349568/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [stocks](/list/stocks) [us election](/list/us-election) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [currencies](/list/currencies) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [social networks](/list/social-networks) **Social topic influence** [australia](/topic/australia), [defence](/topic/defence), [foi](/topic/foi) #4572, [money](/topic/money), [$368b](/topic/$368b), [china](/topic/china), [timorleste](/topic/timorleste), [countries](/topic/countries), [has been](/topic/has-been), [investment](/topic/investment) **Top assets mentioned** [SENATE (SENATE)](/topic/senate) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Gambling.com Group Limited (GAMB)](/topic/gambling) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "The latest images from #Menindee locals this morning. Distressing and beyond belief. #DarlingRiver" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1090003670475788288) 2019-01-28T21:48Z 41.2K followers, [----] engagements "And maybe my Export Bill ends up in a place that allows for cotton export licences to be granted in circumstances where the crop can be shown to be dry land or free from flood plain water. Phil I started a conversation today" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1092381785726410752) 2019-02-04T11:18Z 40.9K followers, [--] engagements "The Coalition Government is working up a suppression trifecta: 1) Obstructing #FOI - all access requests 2) Persecuting whistleblowers - #witnessK & @Richard_D_Boyle 3) Using police to intimidate journalists - @annikasmethurst https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jun/04/federal-police-raid-home-of-news-corp-journalist-annika-smethurstCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jun/04/federal-police-raid-home-of-news-corp-journalist-annika-smethurstCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1135802546361053184) 2019-06-04T06:56Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "Its interesting to see @SantosLtd weighing in so heavily in the gas debate given they are such lightweights when it comes to paying company tax. Santos revenue from 13/14 to 16/17 was $14.9B while the tax they paid was a measly $3M #auspol https://www.afr.com/business/energy/santos-rebuts-cartel-claim-as-senator-wants-5pc-surplus-gas-20190627-p521v1 https://www.afr.com/business/energy/santos-rebuts-cartel-claim-as-senator-wants-5pc-surplus-gas-20190627-p521v1" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1144369271960563712) 2019-06-27T22:17Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "Coalition & ALP want one rule for Ministers and another for everyone else when it comes to security checking. In context of growing covert foreign interference exemption of Ministers from security checks is a security anomaly that must be fixed #auspol https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Finance_and_Public_Administration/MinistersofState https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Finance_and_Public_Administration/MinistersofState" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1155650438202396672) 2019-07-29T01:25Z 40.9K followers, [--] engagements ". @centre_alliance welcomes todays announcement by the Government of $25M seed funding for a deep sea multi-commodity port at Cape Hardy. We have strongly advocated for this project over the last year. It will be a game changer for the lower Eyre Peninsula #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1205978405755187200) 2019-12-14T22:30Z 40.9K followers, [--] engagements "The first rule of project management is schedule delay = cost increase. This news comes off the back of a submarine price rise from $79B to $89B. Meanwhile the Govt is busy focusing on fee hikes for uni students. Leadership failure #auspol #FundUniFairly http://www.afr.com/news/politics/national/navy-s-new-45b-warships-face-two-year-delay-20200914-p55vpqbtis http://www.afr.com/news/politics/national/navy-s-new-45b-warships-face-two-year-delay-20200914-p55vpqbtis" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1305981425632468992) 2020-09-15T21:26Z 40.6K followers, [---] engagements "Im voting NO to the cashless debit card. #auspol #RejectCDCRex #CashlessWelfareCard" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1336615688782245896) 2020-12-09T10:16Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "Australias rich list companies should have to lodge financial returns like every other company. Senators saying theyll support me on a first vote but will back down if the House rejects the change are just pretending they stand for something. #auspol https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/move-to-expose-rich-list-accounts-creates-senate-stand-off-20210804-p58fqb https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/move-to-expose-rich-list-accounts-creates-senate-stand-off-20210804-p58fqb" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1424225329334214656) 2021-08-08T04:25Z 40.8K followers, [---] engagements "The Government has never been able to explain the policy rational for exempting rich list companies from lodging ASIC financial returns. All it does is assist their donors and mates engage in aggressive tax minimisation. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1424226306208661505) 2021-08-08T04:29Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "ICYMI: @PaulineHansonOz backflipped in her support for my amendment to kill off a [--] year old temporary Corps Act exemption that allows [----] rich list companies to not lodge financial returns with ASIC permitting aggressive tax minimisation. #auspol https://www.michaelwest.com.au/pauline-hanson-buckles-billionaires-beat-parliament-again/ https://www.michaelwest.com.au/pauline-hanson-buckles-billionaires-beat-parliament-again/" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1425215213998002178) 2021-08-10T21:59Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "I'm taking action in the AAT to force the release of Howard Government Cabinet papers on the Timor Sea boundary negotiations. These dirty secrets shouldnt be left to moulder in the dark vaults of the National Archives. #WitnessK #TimorLeste #auspol https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/16/rex-patrick-launches-bid-to-make-government-reveal-long-secret-cabinet-documents-on-timor-leste https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/16/rex-patrick-launches-bid-to-make-government-reveal-long-secret-cabinet-documents-on-timor-leste" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1427008370473521153) 2021-08-15T20:44Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "John Howards approach to the Timor Sea negotiations remains an ugly secret. Bernard Collaery is defending criminal charges for allegedly revealing the discreditable truth of Australian spying against #TimorLeste. The whole truth should be revealed #auspol https://www.rexpatrick.com.au/action_to_repeal_timor_sea_secrets https://www.rexpatrick.com.au/action_to_repeal_timor_sea_secrets" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1427009124768747521) 2021-08-15T20:47Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "Im done with em. @ScottMorrisonMP gifting hard earned taxpayer money to his business mates & donors makes him the most shameless & unethical PM ever. @JoshFrydenbergs JK prudential failure makes him the most incompetent Treasurer ever. EPBC discussions over @sussanley #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1434275866159116292) 2021-09-04T22:03Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "Australia has ample gas for our own #manufacturing sector but @ScottMorrisonMP prefers to let his gas mates sell it overseas for their profit. The Govts [----] promise to implement a national reservation policy has gone the way of all its promises. #auspol http://www.afr.com/business/energy/gas-buyers-fear-fresh-price-surge-amid-europe-crunch-20211116-p599l7btis http://www.afr.com/business/energy/gas-buyers-fear-fresh-price-surge-amid-europe-crunch-20211116-p599l7btis" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1462529135884992515) 2021-11-21T21:11Z 40.5K followers, [---] engagements "#BREAKING: The Senate has supported my motion to disallow the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission amendment regulations that would have subjected our charities to persecution by the @ScottMorrisonMP Government. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1463737782900191236) 2021-11-25T05:14Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "The case for widespread free RATs is clear but @ScottMorrisonMP says you can't just make everything free. He didn't say that to big business as they took $billions in #JobKeeper money they didn't need. And the PM has billions more put away for election pork barreling. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1477768502622654464) 2022-01-02T22:27Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "Mexicos President sought a US pardon for Julian #Assange while @ScottMorrisonMP and @MarisePayne have just sat on their hands. A disgraceful abandonment of an Australian citizen and an utter failure to defend #mediafreedom. #auspol https://www.sbs.com.au/news/mexico-president-says-he-urged-donald-trump-to-pardon-julian-assange-repeats-asylum-offer/9194d454-9c52-4f68-b0c8-2feac8f85550 https://www.sbs.com.au/news/mexico-president-says-he-urged-donald-trump-to-pardon-julian-assange-repeats-asylum-offer/9194d454-9c52-4f68-b0c8-2feac8f85550" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1478146905091686401) 2022-01-03T23:30Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "Novak Djokovic was NOT deported because he wasnt vaccinated. He was NOT deported because he made a mistake on his entry form. He was deported because the Minister for Immigration claimed he might stir up anti-vaccination sentiment. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1482836166676484102) 2022-01-16T22:04Z 40.6K followers, [----] engagements "#TimorLeste a brand new & impoverished nation thought we were their friends. But in [----] we spied on them to steal their one source of revenue; Timor Sea oil & gas. Now we find out the spying for commercial gain started from the get go. #auspol #disgrace https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/09/alexander-downer-called-timor-leste-an-open-book-for-australia-in-2000-tribunal-hears https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/09/alexander-downer-called-timor-leste-an-open-book-for-australia-in-2000-tribunal-hears" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1491138537265446913) 2022-02-08T19:55Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "#BREAKING I have just tabled the #TimorLeste Parliaments vote of confidence in Bernard Collaery in the @AuSenate. @LukeGoslingMP has done the same in the @AboutTheHouse #witnessk #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1491249063165313025) 2022-02-09T03:14Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "Its high time the Australian Government came clean about spying to steal Timors oil and gas. Continuing secrecy around that shameful episode undermines trust and confidence in our nation. Transparency is vital so everyone can move on. #auspol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-09/australia-may-have-bugged-timor-leste-political-leaders-in-2000/100815352 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-09/australia-may-have-bugged-timor-leste-political-leaders-in-2000/100815352" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1491549173233033223) 2022-02-09T23:06Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "She didnt turn up for last weeks Senate sitting but managed to attend a weekend protest in Canberra. Shes missed Senate Estimates this week. She earns a $211K salary + allowances + super but doesnt turn up for work. Is she Australias most expensive dole bludger #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1494484571731415042) 2022-02-18T01:31Z 40.9K followers, 10.5K engagements "Politics in Australia regularly causes poor Defence outcomes. A [----] Defence report clearly backs Sydney as the preferred east coast sub base but why pick the best site when you can wave jobs and economic activity in front of three electorates #auspol https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/10b-plan-for-nuclear-submarine-base-under-fire-over-timing-potential-site-20220307-p5a2bi.html https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/10b-plan-for-nuclear-submarine-base-under-fire-over-timing-potential-site-20220307-p5a2bi.html" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1500664383277793281) 2022-03-07T02:47Z 40.1K followers, [---] engagements "The failure of Australia's well-paid spies to warn about Chinas deal with the Solomon Islands is an absolute debacle. There should be a wide-ranging inquiry. Coalition & Labor must end their opposition to parliamentary scrutiny of intel operations #auspol https://www.rexpatrick.com.au/solomon_islands_intelligence_failure_underlines_the_need_for_parliamentary_scrutiny https://www.rexpatrick.com.au/solomon_islands_intelligence_failure_underlines_the_need_for_parliamentary_scrutiny" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1514003028080472066) 2022-04-12T22:10Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "Australia can't take overseas supply chains for granted. We must be able to withstand and bounce back from international disruption. Today I'm announcing an important national resilience and security initiative I'll pursue in the next Parliament. #auspol https://www.rexpatrick.com.au/ensuring_australia_has_industrial_resilience_needs_to_be_enshrined_in_law https://www.rexpatrick.com.au/ensuring_australia_has_industrial_resilience_needs_to_be_enshrined_in_law" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1516560940208365568) 2022-04-19T23:34Z 40.9K followers, [--] engagements ".@ScottMorrisonMP cant help himself. In a last secrecy hurrah the Govt has intervened to have proceedings conducted in secret in my appeal to access parts of a [----] Cabinet submission about Aust - #TimorLeste sea boundary negotiations. Open justice trashed yet again #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1520515816231297030) 2022-04-30T21:29Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "In a frantic last minute rush to suppress John Howards #TimorLeste sea boundary negotiation dirty little secrets Attorney-General @SenatorCash spelt her own name wrong TWICE Shes now had to revoke and re-issue the dodgy public interest certificate. #auspol #incompetence" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1522416230464131074) 2022-05-06T03:21Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "This morning from [--] am SA time I take on a taxpayer funded commercial barrister flown to Adelaide to suppress John Howards plans to steal #TimorLestes oil and gas. Ill have one hand tied behind my back as the Govts argument and evidence will all be heard in secret. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1523771077301719041) 2022-05-09T21:05Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "I very much hope that new Attorney-General @markdreyfusQCMP will act quickly to drop the unjust prosecution of Bernard Collaery and end the counter-productive secrecy shrouding Australia's past attempts to steal #TimorLeste's energy resources. #auspol https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/24/mark-dreyfus-flags-bernard-collaery-case-as-priority-if-appointed-attorney-general https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/24/mark-dreyfus-flags-bernard-collaery-case-as-priority-if-appointed-attorney-general" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1528908794096275456) 2022-05-24T01:20Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "The Archives is already paying $$$ private sector barrister to try to keep John Howards [----] plans to steal #TimorLestes oil & gas secret. Now @naagovau have failed to even respond to requests for related [----] docs. Another AAT case more barristers & wasted resources. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1529627265226592257) 2022-05-26T00:55Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "Heres the letter I sent to @markdreyfusQCMP & @SenatorWong yesterday asking them to reveal past truths on Australias abhorrent conduct towards #TimorLeste. We want Timor to be our friends - we need them to be our friends. Good neighbourly relations are built on trust. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1532253308735619074) 2022-06-02T06:50Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "The calls for an end to the persecution of Bernard Collaery are stronger than ever. The new Attorney General @markdreyfusQCMP must take action without delay and bring this shameful injustice to an end. #auspol #TimorLeste https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/03/crossbenchers-urge-new-attorney-general-to-end-prosecution-of-bernard-collaery https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/03/crossbenchers-urge-new-attorney-general-to-end-prosecution-of-bernard-collaery" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1532489598823464960) 2022-06-02T22:29Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "Heres the letter I sent to @markdreyfusQCMP on Tuesday calling on him to withdraw his consent to the shameful prosecution of Bernard Collaery. Doing so will serve the cause of justice and advance Australias relationship with #TimorLeste a friend and close neighbour. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1532490353374560256) 2022-06-02T22:32Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "I welcome @markdreyfusQCMPs decision to review the properness of the AAT secrecy certificate issued by @SenatorCash in my fight with the National Archives to unbury [--] year old cabinet documents about the Howard Govts attempts to steal #TimorLestes oil & gas resources. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1542264842073276416) 2022-06-29T21:52Z 40.8K followers, [----] engagements "Ive been approached to run for the position of Lord Mayor of the City of #Adelaide. Im thinking about it. Its an important role where one could make a difference for the future of my home town and for South Australia. Watch this space. #saparli https://indaily.com.au/news/politics/2022/07/01/rex-for-mayor-patrick-weighs-up-adelaide-city-council-bid/ https://indaily.com.au/news/politics/2022/07/01/rex-for-mayor-patrick-weighs-up-adelaide-city-council-bid/" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1542659945195139074) 2022-07-01T00:02Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements ".@markdreyfusQCMPs use of s71 of the Judicial Act to discontinue the prosecution of Bernard Collaery is a big win for whistleblowing and a positive step in the repairing of Australias relationship with #TimorLeste. Well done Attorney-General #auspol https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/bernard-collaery-s-leaking-charges-over-east-timor-operation-dropped-on-mark-dreyfus-orders-20220707-p5azuu.html https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/bernard-collaery-s-leaking-charges-over-east-timor-operation-dropped-on-mark-dreyfus-orders-20220707-p5azuu.html" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1544901491822981120) 2022-07-07T04:29Z 40.8K followers, [----] engagements "To further repair relations with #TimorLeste we need complete transparency around Howards attempts to steal their oil & gas. @markdreyfusQCMP must now also revoke @SenatorCashs secrecy certificate in my AAT fight for access to related cabinet docs from [--] years ago. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1544905740493930497) 2022-07-07T04:46Z 40.8K followers, [---] engagements "Heres me outside the Melbourne AAT hearing room where my appeal against Govt secrecy on #TimorLeste papers is underway. Im not allowed in to hear or rebut the Govts arguments. I cant listen to or challenge their witnesses. I cant have a lawyer present. Unjust #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1552454126424162304) 2022-07-28T00:41Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "With evidence in the International Court of Arbitration centring on Witness Ks affidavit stating we spied on #TimorLeste during good faith oil & gas negotiations and charges against Witness K centring on the same affidavit - the dots are joined #auspol https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-time-has-come-for-full-disclosure-former-senator-rex-patrick-on-the-timor-leste-files/ https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-time-has-come-for-full-disclosure-former-senator-rex-patrick-on-the-timor-leste-files/" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1554938920076718080) 2022-08-03T21:15Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "Australians know their government spied on #TimorLeste inappropriately. The Timorese know. The international community know. There is no doubt. Yet Australian officials continue to neither confirm or deny the operation. They make a mockery of us. Its time to come clean. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1554940156784050176) 2022-08-03T21:19Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "The revelation over the past few days that @ScottMorrisonMP secretly co-appointed himself as a minister (apparently in some cases without the knowledge of the extant minister) demands a dose of transparency. Im here to administer that dose. #auspol #FOI" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1559077569437216768) 2022-08-15T07:20Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "1969: Australia granted [--] petroleum exploration permits over parts of the seabed that lay closer to Portuguese-Timor than Australia and then refused to talk to Portugal about a sea boundary even after their [----] formal protest about Australia's Timor Sea claim. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1560798399221608448) 2022-08-20T01:18Z 40.9K followers, [--] engagements "1975 - 1999: Alone in the world and with the aim of accessing #TimorLestes oil & gas resources Australia encouraged and lent support to Indonesias invasion of Timor whose citizens preferred independence. [------] Timorese died opposing Indonesias occupation. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1560799029772308480) 2022-08-20T01:21Z 40.9K followers, [--] engagements "2013: In response to #TimoreLeste commencing arbitration in The Hauge to have the fraud infected [----] treaty made void the Australian Government improperly raided and seized documents from the offices of Timor-Lestes lawyer in the proceedings. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1560800844395999233) 2022-08-20T01:28Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "2016: #TimorLeste launched compulsory conciliation under the Article [---] of the Law of the Sea Convention. Despite the Australian Govt claiming they engaged in good faith it made six objections to compulsory conciliation with the Commission dismissing them all. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1560801511839797248) 2022-08-20T01:30Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "2018: The Australian Govt concluded a treaty with #TimorLeste and then immediately commenced prosecuting Bernard Collaery the lawyer that blew the whistle on Australias abhorrent [----] spying operation. This was despite the Timorese viewing Collaery as a national hero. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1560802132240248833) 2022-08-20T01:33Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "My [----] #FOI attempts to access documents relating to Australias view of the Tasi Mane project have been met with secrecy claims. In an #FOI commissioners review its been revealed they tried to withhold access to media talking points and docs available on the web. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1560803746397188096) 2022-08-20T01:39Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "For over [--] years @dfat has tried to steal #TimorLestes oil & gas. They have acted in a disgraceful manner against both Australias and Timor-Lestes interest. Instead of Australians helping our northern friends develop an industry the Chinese will. End #PolicyFailure #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1560805044311785472) 2022-08-20T01:44Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements ".@JEChalmers cant call on families to tighten their budgets but not deal with multinational tax avoidance or ensure we receive proper royalties for our resources. He cant ask us that while exporting $170B to buy new subs that will arrive in [----]. #auspol https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7891760/stuck-in-the-tough-times-moment/ https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7891760/stuck-in-the-tough-times-moment/" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1567626221340733440) 2022-09-07T21:29Z 41K followers, [---] engagements "The fuel excise cut assisted with cost of living and reduced inflation by 1/4 percent. The @AlboMP Govt wont extend it because theyre focussing on a budget that can support stage [--] tax cuts for the wealthy. Poor policy and allocation of priority. #auspol https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7891188/why-canberra-is-so-expensive-and-how-its-going-to-get-worse/cs=14329 https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7891188/why-canberra-is-so-expensive-and-how-its-going-to-get-worse/cs=14329" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1573822049113739264) 2022-09-24T23:49Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "If @AlexanderDowner favours encroaching on Adelaide Park Lands and knocking down heritage buildings to build a new Womens & Childrens Hospital then I know Im right in opposing it. We can have a hospital AND Park Lands AND heritage protection #saparli https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/downer-unloads-on-squeaky-wheelers-infight-for-adelaides-future/news-story/2271a096ab98f1b7281323ad0d3ee35d https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/downer-unloads-on-squeaky-wheelers-infight-for-adelaides-future/news-story/2271a096ab98f1b7281323ad0d3ee35d" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1581055698536132609) 2022-10-14T22:53Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements "The Govt is still refusing to be transparent about Howard and Downers attempts [--] years ago to steal oil & gas resources from the new and impoverished #TimorLeste. Yesterdays @naagovau release to me of related Cabinet docs did nothing but deplete my printer ink. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1583293021436903424) 2022-10-21T03:04Z 41K followers, [----] engagements ".@Qantas seems determined to ruin my time away with my daughters. Putting aside lost bags and being seated apart when flying last night I arrived in Washington DC to find my apartment booked through Qantas and fully paid for five months ago not actually booked. #QantasSaga" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1607126202548097024) 2022-12-25T21:28Z 39.8K followers, 838.7K engagements "The @Qantas A-team have returned from Xmas holidays and put me and my daughters in two hotel rooms agreed to pick up the accomodation tab in Washington DC and offered the three of us a free Qantas holiday to compensate for the disruption weve experienced. 1/2 #QantasSaga .@Qantas have found a solution: Theyve offered to replace my prepaid two bedroom apartment (with a kitchen a laundry and parking) with a one bedroom hotel room with no facilities wait for it for the same price #QantasSaga https://t.co/LE6pUQrcSk .@Qantas have found a solution: Theyve offered to replace my prepaid two bedroom" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1607603292405915648) 2022-12-27T05:04Z 40.9K followers, 290.3K engagements "When factoring in the $170B cost the [----] delivery date and our lack of a nuclear industry buying nuke subs for our navy will be a disaster for our national security. @AlboMP must end this @ScottMorrisonMP inspired and misguided pipe dream. #auspol https://www.smh.com.au/national/scott-morrison-s-booby-trap-buying-us-nuclear-submarines-is-a-huge-mistake-20221214-p5c6af.html https://www.smh.com.au/national/scott-morrison-s-booby-trap-buying-us-nuclear-submarines-is-a-huge-mistake-20221214-p5c6af.html" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1607881249745698816) 2022-12-27T23:28Z 40.9K followers, 52.7K engagements "Ive been advised a decision is pending on whether the Archives must release year [----] Cabinet papers relating to the Howard Govts plans to steal #TimorLestes oil and gas. Watch this space. #auspol Heres me outside the Melbourne AAT hearing room where my appeal against Govt secrecy on #TimorLeste papers is underway. Im not allowed in to hear or rebut the Govts arguments. I cant listen to or challenge their witnesses. I cant have a lawyer present. Unjust #auspol https://t.co/AOmBXkGJ9P Heres me outside the Melbourne AAT hearing room where my appeal against Govt secrecy on #TimorLeste papers is" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1615558266242879488) 2023-01-18T03:54Z 40.9K followers, 58.4K engagements "The Govt is engaged in a desperate legal scramble to try to censor the AATs decision on access to [--] year old Cabinet docs relating to #TimorLeste. I wonder if the Tribunal finds as I requested it to that spying on the Timorese sea boundary negotiating team took place. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1622364155209715712) 2023-02-05T22:38Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "A 👇letter👇 reluctantly released to me shows that when reviewing the book @dfat tried to blur the line between required changes (dealing with national security) and editorial comments. Theres still great secrecy about what DFAT actually did manage to change. #auspol 2/3" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1627438194869547008) 2023-02-19T22:41Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "#VICTORY With [--] hrs to go until a first AAT #FOI hearing into @ScottMorrisonMPs outrageous claim National Cabinet was still a Cabinet despite a judge ruling otherwise the Govt has capitulated and granted me access to all docs from the first [--] meetings. #auspol #transparency" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1648943017645203456) 2023-04-20T06:53Z 40.9K followers, 153.2K engagements "Every day Kathryn Campbell sits in her $900K per annum #AUKUS advisor roll is a day of insult to those who suffered under the #RoboDebt scheme. #FOI has uncovered the dodgy expedited process that created her job from thin air and handed it to her. #auspol https://michaelwest.com.au/kathryn-campbell-from-robodebt-ignominy-to-plum-defence-job/ https://michaelwest.com.au/kathryn-campbell-from-robodebt-ignominy-to-plum-defence-job/" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1657125612484689921) 2023-05-12T20:48Z 40.9K followers, 380.5K engagements "As Australia takes on an unaffordable and risk ladened $368B project to procure [--] #AUKUS nuclear subs our five-eyes partner Canada is eyeing off a much more sensible purchase of [--] sea-proven Sth Korean designed large conventional subs for $70B. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1659679468607221762) 2023-05-19T21:56Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "As the Govt seeks to save Defence money in other programs to help pay for our overseas built 2nd-hand #AUKUS Virginia Class subs Australian industry workers and sovereign capability look like big losers. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1661853532096712704) 2023-05-25T21:55Z 38.5K followers, [---] engagements "#AUKUS submarine cost comparison. UK's new SSBN programme cost is AUD $76B - thats $19B per sub. Australia's [--] SSN will cost $368B - thats $46B per sub. At more than twice the price Paul Keating has nailed it - the worst deal in all history. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1668558567035781121) 2023-06-13T09:58Z 37.6K followers, 38.1K engagements ".@AlboMP has now engaged a commercial barrister to fight #FOI access to his diary so that he doesnt have to reveal who hes meeting and who is influencing him. Its this sort of thing that causes people to think that hes just another pollie. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1673435710697922560) 2023-06-27T22:36Z 37.3K followers, 108.4K engagements ".@Treasury_AU has engaged two lawyers and counsel to argue in the AAT that its not in the public interest to release a brief it provided to @JEChalmers on Stage [--] Tax Cuts. Thats YOUR money being used to try to keep information from you about a $313B budget item. #auspol #FOI" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1674298210351988736) 2023-06-29T06:06Z 37.8K followers, [---] engagements "We must remove the tentacles of private interest from the Public Service. We must also ban those morally bankrupt consultancy firms trading in socially harming aggressive tax minimisation from ever receiving a cent from the taxpayers kitty. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1676722336224116737) 2023-07-12T21:20Z 38.5K followers, 17.4K engagements "Its been one day since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported. Since that time Kathryn Campbell has accumulated $2445.56 in salary courtesy of taxpayers. #auspol #AUKUS" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1677424308149452800) 2023-07-09T11:42Z 37.4K followers, 100.5K engagements "Its been two days since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported. Since that time Kathryn Campbell has accumulated $4891.12 in salary courtesy of taxpayers. #auspol #AUKUS" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1677783754625134592) 2023-07-09T02:27Z 38.5K followers, 30K engagements "The employment of Ms Campbell by Defence Secretary Greg Moriarty raises very serious questions as to his judgement. His decision to retain Ms Campbell on a completely unjustifiable $892630 raises very serious questions as to propriety. 1/2 #auspol #misappropriation #referral" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1677798632362491904) 2023-07-09T00:04Z 38.5K followers, 88.5K engagements "Ms Campbell went from being responsible for Australias foreign affairs and managing [----] people to being just an advisor and yet she retained her $893K salary. Was it jobs for mates I await further #FOI returns. 2/2 #auspol #misappropriation #referral" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1677799475853803521) 2023-07-09T09:42Z 38.5K followers, 11.2K engagements "For me it feels very similar to sports rorts says @MakeMayoMatter. Rebekha Sharkie is right and now the Auditor-General looks set to examine this slimy pork barrel dressed up as a grant round. Some things in politics never change ☹. 1/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1678136800135766016) 2023-07-09T20:31Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Its been three days since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported. Since that time Kathryn Campbell has accumulated $7336.68 in salary courtesy of taxpayers. All in a long weekends work (Ms Campbell is on leave). 1/2 #auspol #AUKUS" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1678143576977608709) 2023-07-10T00:23Z 38.5K followers, 48.4K engagements ".@AlboMP could have quickly terminated Ms Campbell from her DFAT Secretarys role in May last year using Section [--] of the Public Service Act. Now shes in an #AUKUS advisor role only the Defence Secretary Greg Moriarty can remove her - after a long process. 2/2 #auspol 👇SMH👇" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1678147525113700352) 2023-07-10T08:28Z 37.3K followers, [----] engagements "@Stirling20121 @AlboMP Heres part of the backstory" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1678164450241642496) 2023-07-09T22:24Z 38.5K followers, [---] engagements "PWC from its moral low point has work out its not appropriate for corporations to give political parties money. Sadly the politicians grilling PWC on its moral failings havent worked out that they shouldnt be taking money from corporations. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1678509628299137029) 2023-07-11T00:55Z 38.5K followers, 22K engagements "$9782.25 Thats how much Kathryn Campbell has accumulated in salary in the FOUR DAYS since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported. Tomorrow it will be a five figure dollar value. 🤦♂🤷♂ #auspol #AUKUS" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1678512897440337922) 2023-07-10T22:05Z 38.5K followers, 32.8K engagements "@BarbaraPocock Sorry my tweet was directed at the duopoly - who as you know have no interest in knocking back payment for access and influence. You have been doing a fantastic job on this" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1678539317315002368) 2023-07-11T00:00Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Former @APS_Commission-er Peter Woolcott the man who approved Kathryn Campbells $892K #AUKUS salary refused me #FOI access to the secretaries clubs views on the #RobodebtRC. Now that my appeal is in the AAT Ill invite the new Commissioner to remake the decision. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1678659403472576512) 2023-07-11T07:10Z 38.5K followers, 27.7K engagements "Misfeasance in public office is a 'very peculiar tort which if established creates a personal liability for public officials and possibly for ministers. A refreshing thought; wrongdoers inside government being held financially responsible. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1678669087386529792) 2023-07-11T07:43Z 37.3K followers, 32K engagements "@wayout1 No thats the point of my tweet. The starting point for misfeasance in public office is that the responsibility is personal although the plaintiff may seek to hold the Commonwealth vicariously liable on account of the government having deeper pockets" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1678673402754912256) 2023-07-11T07:54Z 38.5K followers, [---] engagements "The law permits exports to be stopped to prevent a domestic gas shortage. The Govt must ignore the gas cartels self-serving rhetoric and make it clear to them that their shameless greed and overcharging has killed off their social licence. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1678868554589036544) 2023-07-11T22:12Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Kathryn Campbell has hit five figures with $12227.81 accumulated in salary in the FIVE DAYS since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported. Time to deal with the issue @AlboMP. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1678877991059996678) 2023-07-11T21:38Z 38.5K followers, 44.7K engagements "A further development in the long running cluster fiasco that is our future submarine project with the US Chief of Naval Operations saying Were not going to be in a position to sell any nuclear subs to the Australians. What a blessing #auspol #AUKUS" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1678916461597970432) 2023-07-12T00:35Z 38.5K followers, 10.3K engagements "Its almost beyond belief that the Reserve Bank has done NO ANALYSIS as to what effect filling up (especially wealthy) peoples wallets with Stage [--] Tax Cut money will have on inflation. Maybe they just dont want to know #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1679028698836766725) 2023-07-12T07:23Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "For every political donation there is a giver and a receiver. Either the giver or the receiver can stop the transaction. This issue is not just about the conflicted consulting firms. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1679231406336253968) 2023-07-13T00:05Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Cmon @AlboMP its been a whole WEEK since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported and theres been no action on its findings. Meanwhile Kathryn Campbell has accumulated $17118.93 in salary. Thats a number that piles disrespect on every #RoboDebt victim. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1679597065943552000) 2023-07-15T05:28Z 38.5K followers, 56.2K engagements "Im in the AAT Mon - Wed fighting Govt for #FOI access to a major project base schedule & monthly progress reports. The Govt has rolled out high level witnesses for which the AAT will by default pay high regard to - despite RoboDebt and this👇🤦♂. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1679698347286999040) 2023-07-14T03:44Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Its been EIGHT DAYS since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported. In that time Kathryn Campbell has accumulated $19564.49 in salary courtesy of taxpayers. That exceeds the total amount of financial assistance unemployed people are provided with for an entire year. 1/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1679958768585695232) 2023-07-14T22:45Z 37.4K followers, 42.6K engagements "Most MPs dont know what theyre voting for when the bells in Parliament ring. They just sit on whichever side of the chamber their Party whip is sitting. If youre voting in #Fadden today vote for someone wholl represent YOU not their party. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1680027349797175297) 2023-07-17T17:25Z 38.5K followers, 14.6K engagements "Kathryn Campbell has accumulated almost [--] GRAND in salary in the [--] DAYS since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported. Delay in dealing with the findings of the Royal Commission is turning out to be a rather good deal for her. Whats going on @AlboMP #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1680695036625965056) 2023-07-17T09:47Z 37.7K followers, 24.8K engagements "Theres a strong case for a Royal Commission into the integration (infiltration) of the big [--] consulting firms into the public service and the deep conflicts of interest (public good vs private profit) it creates. We must get to the bottom of this. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1680728499450167296) 2023-07-17T18:12Z 38.5K followers, 17.1K engagements "For the next [--] days Im in the AAT fighting [--] taxpayer funded barristers and their instructing solicitors to establish that the pubic interest in the disclosure of cost and schedule (non)performance for any Govt project outweighs the desire of companies to keep it secret. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1680730348387459072) 2023-07-17T09:47Z 37.3K followers, [----] engagements "11 days after adverse findings were published by the #RoboDebt Royal Commission and the taxpayers money keeps flowing $26901.18 of taxpayers money to be exact. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1681093401046048768) 2023-07-18T04:47Z 37.3K followers, 14.4K engagements "In an August [----] Senate Inquiry report I warned that the site for the National Radioactive Waste Management facility can only be selected with the approval of the host community. The @ScottMorrisonMP Govt did not take heed. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1681152995793448960) 2023-07-20T02:20Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Its been [--] days since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported. Since that time Kathryn Campbell has accumulated $29346.74 plus 👇PERKS👇 (revealed in Estimates answers to Senator @BarbaraPocock). #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1681543024046919681) 2023-07-20T02:19Z 38.5K followers, 21.5K engagements "@Maintenonmadame @MarieColemanAO @SophieScamps It seems you are unaware of the terms of s59 of the Public Service Act - which allows a Prime Minister to terminate the employment of a Secretary after meeting very simple procedural fairness requirements" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1681807287168663552) 2023-07-20T00:53Z 38.5K followers, [--] engagements "Kathryn Campbell is a Major-General in the Army Reserves. @ChiefAusArmy needs to consider whether the qualities of leadership Ms Campbell exhibited in her time at Human/Social Services are consistent with the expectations he has for his officers. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1681861159467778053) 2023-07-20T03:08Z 38.5K followers, 28.6K engagements "In January [----] when #RoboDebt was in full swing Kathryn Campbell received an Order of Australia for distinguished service to public administration through senior roles with government departments and to the Australian Army Reserve. This award must be cancelled. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1682139900236406786) 2023-07-20T21:26Z 38.5K followers, 84.5K engagements "It costs $368B delivers a 1st sub in [--] years time introduces nuclear reactors to Australia benefits foreign shipyards over local was announced as a fait accompli and you dont want it discussed at your party conference. Really @AlboMP #auspol #AUKUS https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/anthony-albanese-warns-labor-to-leave-aukus-and-palestine-position-untouched-at-conference/news-story/16e436ebac8398e8b90ca603c5272300" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1683230853831479297) 2023-07-23T21:41Z 40.9K followers, 112.6K engagements "Whilst I welcome news that Kathryn Campbell has resigned its news that should have come much much earlier. Sadly it will only serve as small justice to those who suffered under the #RoboDebt scheme. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1683370812315963392) 2023-07-24T06:57Z 38.5K followers, 33.1K engagements "Dont you just admire how our our Defence Dept can buy a $200 million aircraft for $490 million each. That takes tremendous skill and effort; and so soon after negotiating the #AUKUS worst deal in all history. Pity the poor taxpayer. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1684681030035517441) 2023-07-30T02:54Z 38.5K followers, 65.3K engagements "#AUKUS is costing the taxpayer $368B. @AlboMP says it will create [-----] jobs. Where and when though Defence has done a workforce study but is refusing to release it stating theyre shy about having the public look their work and its just not in the public interest. 1/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1685085860830887936) 2023-07-30T00:02Z 38.5K followers, 16.7K engagements "Weve just paid $490M each for an aircraft worth only $200M. Weve seen a [--] fold increase in its price (above inflation) for an aircraft we first fielded in [----]. Its egregious gouging of our national treasury via compliant defence bureaucrats. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1685190549798805505) 2023-07-29T07:28Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Crossbench Negotiating Rule #1: When the Govt needs your vote for something they REALLY want (industrial relations changes) dont agree to a REVIEW about what you REALLY want (an increase to JobSeeker) instead INSIST on what you REALLY want. 1/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1686220983374675968) 2023-08-01T10:27Z 38.5K followers, 37.6K engagements "A consultant engaged to advise Finance on how it should engage consultants🤦♂. The Depts Secretary is on $892K three of her deputies earn circa $450K each and yet no one can make a decision without external help. A big rethink is required #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1686850315461722115) 2023-08-02T21:23Z 38.5K followers, 54.1K engagements "Calling for a lower company tax rate is meaningless when many large companies pay no tax at all. We should have a FAIRER company tax system where all companies contribute back to the safe and stable society in which they conduct their business. #auspol https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/just-not-competitive-industry-urges-tax-reform-20230802-p5dt6c https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/just-not-competitive-industry-urges-tax-reform-20230802-p5dt6c" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1686862731071406080) 2023-08-02T22:13Z 40.2K followers, 19.3K engagements "EVERY fire season we export taxpayers $$$$$$ to the US to bring aerial firefighting capabilities here; capabilities we should own (and lease out in our off-season) but dont because @AlboMP has embraced Defences opulent want (not need) for $368B #AUKUS subs. Go @NSWRFS #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1686928059717562368) 2023-08-03T02:32Z 38.5K followers, 13.8K engagements "External fund managers are milking our $22B Medical Research Future Fund in $400 million annual management fees. Its a disgraceful situation and one of the reasons the @Greens are right to question @AlboMPs proposed Housing Future Fund. 1/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1687201737051099142) 2023-08-03T20:40Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Small businesses should pay a fair amount of tax but so too should the big multinationals. Right now many multinationals pay no tax and in the case of the oil and gas cartel also plunder our finite resources. We need a fairer tax system now. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1687204370402975744) 2023-08-04T08:45Z 38.5K followers, 15K engagements "As @AlboMP pumps $3B of Australian taxpayers money into US shipyards hes terminated a $1.2B investment in our local space industry. Its a disgraceful #AUKUS related decision that will harm our manufacturing sector even further. #FOIs pending. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1687212177734963200) 2023-08-03T21:21Z 38.5K followers, 16.7K engagements "As successive Australia governments have slept our economic complexity ranking has recently fallen below that of Uganda. We need to stop just exporting our rocks and instead value-add here. We cant be a land of miners and baristas. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1687214881978945536) 2023-08-04T00:47Z 37.8K followers, 30.9K engagements "If you need to see a lawyer before you blow the whistle then somethings wrong with the law. If you need to see a lawyer after youve blown the whistle then somethings even more wrong. If youre in Adelaide this coming Wednesday lend your support to @Richard_D_Boyle. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1688093715955646464) 2023-08-06T07:44Z 38.5K followers, 23.1K engagements ".@AlboMP should face his party members after announcing #AUKUS as a fait accompli. And for the SA and WA branches of @theamwu that might support the project given promises over jobs ask the PM why hes keeping two AUKUS workforce studies secret #auspol https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/labor-faces-growing-grassroots-party-revolt-over-aukus-pact/news-story/0b1b68c68b57d060a664ed3bc511b36d https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/labor-faces-growing-grassroots-party-revolt-over-aukus-pact/news-story/0b1b68c68b57d060a664ed3bc511b36d" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1688311079347380224) 2023-08-06T22:08Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "#RoboDebt the conduct of the ACT DPP and the still unfolding Big Four consulting swindle could all have been prevented if whistleblowers were rewarded for calling out misconduct. But instead we have @MarkDreyfusKCMP prosecuting them. 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂ #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1688315900649504768) 2023-08-06T22:27Z 38.5K followers, 15.7K engagements "Hes a senior officer who works for the army for up to [---] days a year juggling the role with his KPMG position that is focused on securing new Defence contracts for the firm. How did Defence or KPMG not see an issue with this arrangement #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1688670208549142528) 2023-08-07T21:55Z 38.5K followers, 42.5K engagements "In [----] we decided to buy new subs. Singapore did the same in [----]. They ordered their subs in [----] and the first of [--] has just arrived. Unit cost $600M. So far weve spent $4B getting no subs. First 2nd hand #AUKUS sub may arrive in [----]. Unit cost $B https://www.navaltoday.com/2023/08/07/singapores-first-invincible-class-submarine-delivered/ https://www.navaltoday.com/2023/08/07/singapores-first-invincible-class-submarine-delivered/" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1688797457025818625) 2023-08-08T06:21Z 40.8K followers, 59K engagements "Just to confirm what you say is correct heres a graph of Singapores economic complexity ranking (5) and Australias (93). For good measure Ive added Uganda to the graph who recently jumped ahead of us (at 92). #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1688804412192673792) 2023-08-08T06:48Z 38.5K followers, 13.9K engagements "The Australian Local Government Association wants a $6B federal boost to local government to help maintain and build essential roads and bridges. But @AlboMP much prefers pouring your money into upgrading US/UK shipyards to prepare for #AUKUS 🤷♂. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1689027762412195840) 2023-08-08T21:36Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "By the time the first electrons flows from an Australian nuclear reactor in well over a decades time renewable base-load issues will have been solved. @PeterDutton_MP is trying to drive forward while looking exclusively in the rear view mirror. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1689031400710918144) 2023-08-08T21:50Z 38.5K followers, 13.6K engagements "Instead of focussing on having the sovereign capabilities to defend ourselves and ensuring we can make our own decisions about war and peace our Govt has chosen in the words of an earlier Prime Minister to go all the way with the USA. 1/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1689042761226625032) 2023-08-08T22:35Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "But full Australian integration into the strategic plans of the US personally benefits our senior officials. It distracts us from the vulnerability created by their Defence procurement incompetence and involves them in overseas trips and big league decision making. 2/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1689043220511301632) 2023-08-08T22:37Z 37.7K followers, [----] engagements "In [----] PwC proposed the dream in a joint report with the American and British Chamber of Commerce. In [----] PwC is living the dream as are US and UK industry. #AUKUS #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1689246643177336832) 2023-08-09T12:05Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Aside from the climate change issue - here we have the Govt subsidising the same greed driven gas cartel that prioritises export supply over domestic supply price gouges everyday Aussies and businesses and pays no royalties for OUR gas. #auspol #snafu" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1689384935516209153) 2023-08-09T21:15Z 38.5K followers, 13.1K engagements "It seems @AlboMPs transparency allergy worsens with each passing week. Maybe this is an occupational hazard for Prime Ministers. At his current rate he risks catching up up with @ScottMorrisonMP. He should reflect on this. #auspol #FOI" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1689394790205685760) 2023-08-09T21:54Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "The Coalition really did bungle the selection of a National Radioactive Waste Management Facility site. In trying to find a suitable site their starting point was to say Farmers who wants to sell your land at [--] times the market value. 1/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1689443472326152192) 2023-08-10T01:08Z 37.3K followers, [----] engagements "@ShriekingVi @DavidHa30584721 @AlboMP Your advice in the face of a lack of transparency is to give in Its a strange line to take and I shall not be following your advice at least not until you come up and present to me cogent reasons as to why I should" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1689459880254676992) 2023-08-10T02:13Z 37.7K followers, [--] engagements "In [----] when the world has embraced base-load renewables and fusion a young man named Dutton will be asking himself what was my great-grandfather thinking as hes trying to deal with the waste from #AUKUS subs and small modular reactors. 1/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1689745160979234817) 2023-08-10T21:06Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "The possible siting of the National Radioactive Waste Management Facility within the Woomera Prohibited Area is incompatible with Defence's operational and capability needs for the testing of war material. Defence Dept to Senate - [--] June [----]. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1689752196194488322) 2023-08-10T21:34Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Deciding on a site and then trying to defend it against the community doesnt work. The only way to manage our radioactive waste is to engage the community from the start. That means the whole community including the lands traditional owners. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1689828805052080128) 2023-08-11T02:39Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "And do you think senior officials at @DefenceAust are able to grasp this simple community engagement concept 👇Heres the answer👇 #auspol #AUKUS @RichardMarlesMP" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1689831875878273024) 2023-08-11T02:51Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Two talented young lawyers on my staff worked with constituents against Service Australia chaperoning matters through the AAT winning then briefing me so that I could take #RoboDebt [---] to the Senate. The work of those two lawyers has paid off. #auspol https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2023/08/11/exclusive-dpp-reviews-prosecutions-false-welfare-debts https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2023/08/11/exclusive-dpp-reviews-prosecutions-false-welfare-debts" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1690094617193250818) 2023-08-11T20:15Z 40.5K followers, 20.4K engagements "If the Liberals are to win government again the party has to be more moderate says the man who deposed @TurnbullMalcolm. 🤷♂ #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1690112022342766594) 2023-08-11T21:24Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "The prosecution of David McBride is in actual fact a trial of Attorney-General @MarkDreyfusKCMPs moral fortitude and integrity. Sadly all that will be seen is that like his predecessors Dreyfus has been captured by the security estate. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1690492685822636032) 2023-08-12T22:37Z 38.5K followers, 35K engagements "Two weeks ago it was revealed that our first law officer @MarkDreyfusKCMP tampered with an Administrative Appeal Tribunal matter by improperly endorsing a confidentiality certificate that interfered with open justice. He engaged in secrecy overreach. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1690498986573189120) 2023-08-12T23:02Z 38.5K followers, 17.6K engagements "As @MadeleineMHKing lectures that our nations wealth comes from resources and mining she should reflect on how successive Govts 1) failed to collect proper royalties and 2) created the dependency by not supporting our manufacturing sector and dumbing down our economy. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1690870407744966656) 2023-08-13T23:38Z 38.5K followers, 29.6K engagements "The #AUKUS sub program will provide nothing in the way of deterrence for at least a decade. Meanwhile its $368B price tag will draw money away from other immediately needed capabilities. @RichardMarlesMPs argument is desperately hollow. #auspol @theamwu" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1691553197473898784) 2023-08-15T20:51Z 38.5K followers, 19K engagements "No matter how much lipstick you put on a pig especially an #AUKUS pig its still a pig. #auspol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-17/albanese-defend-aukus-at-labor-conference-/102743594 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-17/albanese-defend-aukus-at-labor-conference-/102743594" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1692098144690167854) 2023-08-17T08:56Z 40.9K followers, 16.4K engagements "In order to appease @theamwu and @CFMEU on the worst deal in all history @AlboMP is promising [-----] secure well-paid unionised jobs. Hes very open on the high level promises but completely 👇opaque👇 on the details. #auspol #AUKUS #FOI" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1692265308613140596) 2023-08-17T20:01Z 41K followers, [----] engagements "I have come to the position based upon advice and analysis that nuclear-powered submarines are what Australia needs in the future says @AlboMP. That advice and analysis comes from the most incompetent and self-interested Dept we have. #auspol #AUKUS https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/pm-stares-down-anti-aukus-appeasers-20230818-p5dxi8 https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/pm-stares-down-anti-aukus-appeasers-20230818-p5dxi8" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1692656290160599225) 2023-08-18T21:54Z 41K followers, 27K engagements "In @RichardMarlesMPs [--] paragraph #AUKUS statement to be inserted into the Labor Partys National Platform he states that regular updates on nuclear safety and stewardship will be provided to Parliament and the public. Yet I got a 100% refusal to this #FOI. 1/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1692693546015527387) 2023-08-19T00:22Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Yesterday the @OAICgov advised me that @DefenceAust has objected to this nuclear stewardship and safety #FOI being fast-tracked to the AAT. Despite the claim made by @RichardMarlesMP his Department wants to take the slow road to #AUKUS transparency. 2/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1692693792946880527) 2023-08-19T00:23Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "I served in the RAN submarine force (Oberons and Collins) for [--] years and then worked in Defence industry. I utilise my experiences (including time spent at sea on USN nuclear sub) to conclude #AUKUS is a bad spend. Heres a diagram that will help you understand why. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1692758957344141676) 2023-08-19T04:42Z 38.5K followers, 38K engagements "@MarkSpe64868944 I dont think the Hunter frigate is a good choice for use in this argument. It is a very expensive and (project) risk laden proposition" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1692800099523707038) 2023-08-19T07:26Z 38.5K followers, [---] engagements "In a common political ploy @RichardMarlesMP gave no time for @AustralianLabor Party delegates to consider and contest his #AUKUS statement before they were asked to vote on it. Heres my rebuttal to each of his [--] paragraphs of sophistry. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1693014701222007092) 2023-08-19T21:38Z 37.5K followers, 24K engagements ".@RichardMarlesMP declared to @AustralianLabor delegates that #AUKUS does not involve any ante facto commitment to participate in the military operations of the US. But thanks to @Wikileaks we know what Labors real position has long been. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1693020723420533080) 2023-08-19T22:02Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements ".@RichardMarlesMP declared to @AustralianLabor delegates that Labor will maximise #AUKUS opportunities for our companies. The same was promised in [----] for a joint combat system program. Despite us contributing billions theres NOT ONE AUSSIE PRODUCT on US subs. #auspol @theamwu" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1693027708698259846) 2023-08-19T22:30Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements ".@RichardMarlesMP declared to @AustralianLabor delegates that our interests lie in shaping a region that is peaceful stable and prosperous. But as he looks to help the US in North Asia theres slow motion genocide taking place a stones throw away in West Papua. 1/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1693033505662656953) 2023-08-19T22:53Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Meanwhile @RichardMarlesMP has held [--] meetings with Indonesian General Prabowo Subianto a man banned from the US on account of his human rights abuses. In [----] he led Indonesian forces in bloody reprisal actions against West Papua separatists. 2/2 #auspol #LookTheOtherWay" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1693034097160212589) 2023-08-19T22:55Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements ".@RichardMarlesMP declared to @AustralianLabor delegates There will be an identification of Australian manufacturers in the supply chain in the building maintenance and modification of all naval vessels. As for our frigates that means a flag pole in each. #auspol @theamwu" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1693043916076126467) 2023-08-19T23:34Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Last October our expert Radiation Health and Safety Advisory Council warned Govt that the #AUKUS nuclear regulator should NOT sit within Defence. @AlboMP ignored that advice and now we see Defence paying EY for advice that best suits its plans. 1/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1693359604049363345) 2023-08-20T20:29Z 38.5K followers, 11.2K engagements "When Treasurer @JEChalmers appears at the Press Club on Thursday to explain what the Govt is doing to position Australia moving forward maybe he can explain how hes going to get our manufacturing as a % of GDP above that of Botswana 1/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1693371757485572348) 2023-08-20T21:17Z 37.3K followers, 11.6K engagements "and get our economic complexity back above that of Ugandas (hint: stop just exporting our rocks - value-add here). 2/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1693372497423737337) 2023-08-20T21:20Z 37.4K followers, [----] engagements "Amortentia was thought by Harry Potter fans to be the worlds strongest love potion. But its strength seems mild compared to the potion being used on our Defence officials paying excessive prices for subs aircraft and now rockets from the US. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1693751338075898281) 2023-08-21T22:26Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "The influence of gambling corporations is all pervasive infecting our sport our TV and other media our education institutions and our politics. Only a handful of our MPs have been prepared to resist these social parasites. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1693755207665291369) 2023-08-21T22:41Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "A recent @pmc_gov_au brief to the PM on gambling advertising shows that @AlboMP has been made fully aware of the harm that gambling does particularly to children and young people. Yet hes doing nothing substantial to deal with the problem. #auspol #FOI" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1693773869889523784) 2023-08-21T23:55Z 37.9K followers, [----] engagements "What a mess Now the US is baulking on #AUKUS subs. Heres a [--] step remedy. 1) Sack our failed Defence leadership. 2) Stop the nuclear sub deal. 3) Buy [--] off-the-shelf AIP subs built in Australia and enhanced by Australian industry. 1/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1693811380003160126) 2023-08-22T02:24Z 38.5K followers, 20.4K engagements "Good on @tanya_plibersek for moving to water buybacks the most efficient way to return water to the #MurrayDarling. But the Govt must also upgrade the Plan from a politically fraudulent [----] GL return target to a scientific [----] GL return target. #saparli" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1693886670767276032) 2023-08-22T07:23Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Singapore by design has a resilient diversified economy; electronics chemicals biomedical finance tourism internationalised services etc. Australia by folly has a dependant economy as we just exports rocks and gas. We must change. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1694110869167480918) 2023-08-22T22:14Z 38.5K followers, 21.3K engagements "On the weekend Defence Minister @RichardMarlesMP told @AustralianLabor of #AUKUS Labor will work to reverse the over-reliance on private contractors in our defence knowledge decisions and capacity. Meanwhile back at the Australian Submarine Agency 👇👇👇 . #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1694154512142159879) 2023-08-23T01:08Z 37.7K followers, 31.5K engagements "@dwightwalker @RichardMarlesMP @AustralianLabor The initial point of my tweet was the juxtaposition between what the Minister is saying and what his Department is doing. But I dont think we should be paying Vice Admiral Mead $695425 per annum and then paying the same and more for management advisory services" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1694227168119955632) 2023-08-23T05:56Z 37.3K followers, [---] engagements "I was pleased to mingle with @Richard_D_Boyle David McBride and others at the launch of the @humanrightsHRLCs Whistleblower Project a legal support service that would be completely unnecessary if the Govt did its job to protect whistleblowers. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1694815647400927266) 2023-08-24T20:55Z 37.6K followers, 11.3K engagements "As a former submariner I know what submarine info should and shouldnt be kept secret. Info in 👇this #FOI👇 should most certainly be public and subject to scrutiny and debate. Yesterday in the AAT I launched the first serious challenge to #AUKUS secrecy overreach. 1/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1694827181556240436) 2023-08-24T21:41Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "In May [----] I specifically queried the Antarctic Division What's the status of the Nuyina and Tasman Bridge compatibility assessment They responded Were confident that the vessel will be approved to go underneath the Tasman Bridge . #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1694992627006107841) 2023-08-25T08:38Z 38.5K followers, 14.8K engagements "Exactly whats going on with Snowy [---] Whats the latest cost Is Florence (the tunnel mole) moving yet Neither Snowy Hydro Ltd the Dept or the Minister are talking; rather theyve tried to wrap a secrecy snow blanket over the whole project. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1695181578589417594) 2023-08-25T21:09Z 38.5K followers, 10.9K engagements "In November McBride will be the first person on trial in relation to war crimes committed by Australian forces in Afghanistan the whistleblower not a war criminal. @MarkDreyfusKCMP could stop this injustice but he lacks the political courage #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1695187437885214741) 2023-08-25T21:32Z 38.5K followers, 52.8K engagements "I think the @SatPaper expresses it well through this cartoon. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1695216144096137496) 2023-08-25T23:26Z 38.5K followers, 11.5K engagements "This debacle - where our $528M icebreaking research vessel cant safely pass underneath Hobarts Tasman Bridge to refuel - begs for an #FOI. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1695223520958263396) 2023-08-25T23:55Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "Its always sad when military personnel die in the service of their country. The recent @AustralianArmy MRH-90 accident and now this @USMC tragedy highlight the risks taken by all servicemen and women. Sincere condolences. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1695714969248252060) 2023-08-27T08:28Z 37.4K followers, [----] engagements "Australian shareholder ownership of Rio Tinto is 8%. Just as it exports almost all of our rocks to overseas jurisdictions for the value-adding to be done it exports almost all of its dividends to overseas bank accounts. #JustSaying #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1695896652366938122) 2023-08-27T20:30Z 40.1K followers, 105.5K engagements "@Stoxxie I dont tweet without being able to back up what I say. 👇👇This👇 from a Bloomberg investor brief" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1695927364478542152) 2023-08-27T22:32Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "@WhisperKats I didnt say a word about @AlboMP - I was just informing people of Rio Tinto shareholder statistical information from a Bloomberg investor brief" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1695928834670080273) 2023-08-27T22:38Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "@JoYohana @JaneCaro Rounded" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1695929289664053424) 2023-08-27T22:40Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "@Adelaide0024 Heres the top 5" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1695929649988350268) 2023-08-27T22:41Z 40.8K followers, [----] engagements "You should stop tweeting while you are ahead @Stoxxie. In the alternate; research first then tweet. 👇From ASICs website.👇 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1695931421591044137) 2023-08-27T22:48Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "An interesting attitude coming out of the UK where Australian companies might get the #AUKUS scraps on account of UK companies being flush with work. #auspol 👉" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1695940838516535405) 2023-08-27T23:26Z 37.6K followers, [----] engagements "At [----] AEST I will appear before the Senates Inquiry into The Operation of Commonwealth #FOI Laws. It will be my first time appearing before a Senate Committee so wish me luck 😉. #auspol You can listen in here 👉" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1695982995021451346) 2023-08-28T02:13Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "A new @dfat #FOI release on #Assange confirms the Australian Govt is waiting until Mr Assange's legal processes have concluded." The reality is @AlboMP is waiting until Julian has been extradited tried sentenced and is rotting in a US super-maximum security prison. 1/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1696279553944273283) 2023-08-28T21:52Z 37.3K followers, 24.1K engagements "The US Govts claim that it cant intervene in these sorts of matters is rubbish. It recently released a convicted arms trafficker because it suited them.@AlboMP could press for #Assanges release but hes all too intoxicated with being let inside the US tent. 2/2 #auspol #AUKUS" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1696280914941395249) 2023-08-28T21:57Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "My tweet yesterday seemed to surprise many on who really owns Rio Tinto. 👇Heres👇 a slightly dated article that will open peoples eyes further to the level of foreign ownership in our companies. BHP CBA CSL NAB - hardly big Australians. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1696284720487895262) 2023-08-28T22:12Z 38.5K followers, 22.4K engagements "@jaraparilla @dfat @AlboMP Fresh off the press - last month. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1696285380570714223) 2023-08-28T22:15Z 38.5K followers, [---] engagements "While 20% of Australians closely follow what happens in the Parliament its the other 80% who decide whos in the Parliament 😉. #auspol @ajamesbragg @MrRexPatrick Its such a shame @MrRexPatrick is not in our parliament. When you look at some others who got into the senate our system is flawed. @ajamesbragg @MrRexPatrick Its such a shame @MrRexPatrick is not in our parliament. When you look at some others who got into the senate our system is flawed" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1696304687526621554) 2023-08-28T23:32Z 40.9K followers, 10.4K engagements "Attorney-General @MarkDreyfusKCMP cant just turn away from the allegation made by the former #FOI Commissioner that the @OAICgov deliberately misled the Federal Court (in my FOI delay matter). Its a serious public administration #integrity issue which he MUST address. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1696636583418479098) 2023-08-29T21:30Z 38.5K followers, [---] engagements "One could be forgiven for thinking that the independent Information Commissioner (IC) in starving and strangling #FOI reviews was working to please her political masters. Its like the IC went to the Kathryn Campbell school of public service. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1696644227474530528) 2023-08-29T22:01Z 38.5K followers, 12.2K engagements "Apparently Im universally feared by government #FOI bureaucrats. Actually Im very friendly and always polite. I just yearn for greater government #transparency. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1696649643692790164) 2023-08-29T22:22Z 38.5K followers, 29.7K engagements "Having guzzled down the #AUKUS Kool-Aid @AlboMP is now so in the thrall of his national security bureaucrats that he can't act in either the public interest or even his own political interest. One might have hoped for better. 1/2 #ClimateCrisis #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1696817531527545120) 2023-08-30T09:29Z 38.5K followers, 10.1K engagements "The Office of National Intelligence report on the national security impacts of #climatechange is exempt from #FOI. But the input of other agencies to that report are not. So Ive lodged new FOI requests. @AlboMP could do much better on #transparency. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1696818542174478466) 2023-08-30T09:34Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "A new cost of $12B with @Bowenchris saying the project is looking to get back on track. It cant be the $2B - finished in [----] track or the $6B - finished in [----] track so it must be the no-one gets fired and the taxpayer pays track. 1/2 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1697115284908499190) 2023-08-31T05:13Z 37.7K followers, [----] engagements "All too often politics is a triumph of low expectations. Thats certainly the case with @AlboMPs commitment to #transparency. Loud in opposition pathetic in govt. #FOI together with a strong cross-bench is proving vital for effective scrutiny. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1697354856011583752) 2023-08-31T21:05Z 38.5K followers, 22.1K engagements "Our manufacturing as a % of GDP has plummeted our economic complexity ranking has fallen and now👇this👇. @AlboMP needs to stop talking-the-talk and start walking-the-walk otherwise when coal and gas exports stop well be left on our knees. 1/3 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1697358751597248945) 2023-08-31T21:20Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Our manufacturing has plummeted to 5.5% of GDP matching that of Botswana. 2/3 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1697359333007540229) 2023-08-31T21:22Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Our economic complexity ranking has fallen to 93rd below that of Uganda. 3/3 #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1697360040515027178) 2023-08-31T21:25Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements ".@AlboMP promised to end @ScottMorrisonMPs Govts obsessive secrecy. But [--] months later @AustralianLabor is trying to defend their woeful transparency failures by saying theyre not quite as bad as their predecessors. #SNAFU #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1698436534662570343) 2023-09-03T20:43Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements ".@PeterDutton_MP has accused @AlboMP of being a bit too close to @Qantas CEO Alan Joyce. Of course hed know more if the @LiberalAus party hadnt voted against @JacquiLambies Senate motion requiring the PM and ministers to disclosure who they meet with. #auspol #transparency" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1698456415310958823) 2023-09-03T22:02Z 38.5K followers, 10.5K engagements "#transparency is needed around @AlboMP and @CatherineKingMPs decision to stop extra Qatar flights to Australia especially noting @Qantas price gouging and market misconduct. Hopefully the Senate will gain access to the reasons but if it cant my #FOI should help. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1698463496407482760) 2023-09-03T22:30Z 38.5K followers, 12.5K engagements "As our submarine industry deals with cancelled contracts their US counterparts are laughing all the way to the bank. Congress is setting up a special account for @AlboMP to deposit billions for use in enhancing their industrial base. 1/2 #auspol #AUKUS" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1698835700131786829) 2023-09-04T23:09Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "The Virginia class sub deal brokered by @AlboMP is akin to buying a 2nd hand Audi at the marked price and then being told by the dealer to also make a large contribution to production line upgrades at Ingolstadt and servicing centres upgrades in Bavaria. 🤦♂#AUKUS #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1698841324097785993) 2023-09-04T23:31Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements "With @Qantas having engaged in all manner of market misconduct new CEO Vanessa Hudson could do the airline a huge service and @AlboMP a big favour by promptly revoking the inappropriate Chairmans Lounge invitation Alan Joyce gave to the PMs son. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1699158327568335241) 2023-09-05T20:31Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "When Senator @DavidPocock questions officials at the newly established Senate inquiry into Darwins Middle Arm development he can ask them all about the Govts secret commercial interest and commercial plans in this gas export enabling project. #auspol #FOI #ClimateActionNow" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1699165572628693123) 2023-09-05T21:00Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements "Defence officials to be held accountable in relation to a procurement project That would be a welcomed first. #auspol" [X Link](https://x.com/MrRexPatrick/status/1699173010899689663) 2023-09-05T21:29Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. 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Social topic influence australia, defence, foi #4572, money, $368b, china, timorleste, countries, has been, investment
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"The latest images from #Menindee locals this morning. Distressing and beyond belief. #DarlingRiver"
X Link 2019-01-28T21:48Z 41.2K followers, [----] engagements
"And maybe my Export Bill ends up in a place that allows for cotton export licences to be granted in circumstances where the crop can be shown to be dry land or free from flood plain water. Phil I started a conversation today"
X Link 2019-02-04T11:18Z 40.9K followers, [--] engagements
"The Coalition Government is working up a suppression trifecta: 1) Obstructing #FOI - all access requests 2) Persecuting whistleblowers - #witnessK & @Richard_D_Boyle 3) Using police to intimidate journalists - @annikasmethurst https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jun/04/federal-police-raid-home-of-news-corp-journalist-annika-smethurstCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jun/04/federal-police-raid-home-of-news-corp-journalist-annika-smethurstCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
X Link 2019-06-04T06:56Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Its interesting to see @SantosLtd weighing in so heavily in the gas debate given they are such lightweights when it comes to paying company tax. Santos revenue from 13/14 to 16/17 was $14.9B while the tax they paid was a measly $3M #auspol https://www.afr.com/business/energy/santos-rebuts-cartel-claim-as-senator-wants-5pc-surplus-gas-20190627-p521v1 https://www.afr.com/business/energy/santos-rebuts-cartel-claim-as-senator-wants-5pc-surplus-gas-20190627-p521v1"
X Link 2019-06-27T22:17Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Coalition & ALP want one rule for Ministers and another for everyone else when it comes to security checking. In context of growing covert foreign interference exemption of Ministers from security checks is a security anomaly that must be fixed #auspol https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Finance_and_Public_Administration/MinistersofState https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Finance_and_Public_Administration/MinistersofState"
X Link 2019-07-29T01:25Z 40.9K followers, [--] engagements
". @centre_alliance welcomes todays announcement by the Government of $25M seed funding for a deep sea multi-commodity port at Cape Hardy. We have strongly advocated for this project over the last year. It will be a game changer for the lower Eyre Peninsula #auspol"
X Link 2019-12-14T22:30Z 40.9K followers, [--] engagements
"The first rule of project management is schedule delay = cost increase. This news comes off the back of a submarine price rise from $79B to $89B. Meanwhile the Govt is busy focusing on fee hikes for uni students. Leadership failure #auspol #FundUniFairly http://www.afr.com/news/politics/national/navy-s-new-45b-warships-face-two-year-delay-20200914-p55vpqbtis http://www.afr.com/news/politics/national/navy-s-new-45b-warships-face-two-year-delay-20200914-p55vpqbtis"
X Link 2020-09-15T21:26Z 40.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Im voting NO to the cashless debit card. #auspol #RejectCDCRex #CashlessWelfareCard"
X Link 2020-12-09T10:16Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Australias rich list companies should have to lodge financial returns like every other company. Senators saying theyll support me on a first vote but will back down if the House rejects the change are just pretending they stand for something. #auspol https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/move-to-expose-rich-list-accounts-creates-senate-stand-off-20210804-p58fqb https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/move-to-expose-rich-list-accounts-creates-senate-stand-off-20210804-p58fqb"
X Link 2021-08-08T04:25Z 40.8K followers, [---] engagements
"The Government has never been able to explain the policy rational for exempting rich list companies from lodging ASIC financial returns. All it does is assist their donors and mates engage in aggressive tax minimisation. #auspol"
X Link 2021-08-08T04:29Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"ICYMI: @PaulineHansonOz backflipped in her support for my amendment to kill off a [--] year old temporary Corps Act exemption that allows [----] rich list companies to not lodge financial returns with ASIC permitting aggressive tax minimisation. #auspol https://www.michaelwest.com.au/pauline-hanson-buckles-billionaires-beat-parliament-again/ https://www.michaelwest.com.au/pauline-hanson-buckles-billionaires-beat-parliament-again/"
X Link 2021-08-10T21:59Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"I'm taking action in the AAT to force the release of Howard Government Cabinet papers on the Timor Sea boundary negotiations. These dirty secrets shouldnt be left to moulder in the dark vaults of the National Archives. #WitnessK #TimorLeste #auspol https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/16/rex-patrick-launches-bid-to-make-government-reveal-long-secret-cabinet-documents-on-timor-leste https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/16/rex-patrick-launches-bid-to-make-government-reveal-long-secret-cabinet-documents-on-timor-leste"
X Link 2021-08-15T20:44Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"John Howards approach to the Timor Sea negotiations remains an ugly secret. Bernard Collaery is defending criminal charges for allegedly revealing the discreditable truth of Australian spying against #TimorLeste. The whole truth should be revealed #auspol https://www.rexpatrick.com.au/action_to_repeal_timor_sea_secrets https://www.rexpatrick.com.au/action_to_repeal_timor_sea_secrets"
X Link 2021-08-15T20:47Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Im done with em. @ScottMorrisonMP gifting hard earned taxpayer money to his business mates & donors makes him the most shameless & unethical PM ever. @JoshFrydenbergs JK prudential failure makes him the most incompetent Treasurer ever. EPBC discussions over @sussanley #auspol"
X Link 2021-09-04T22:03Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Australia has ample gas for our own #manufacturing sector but @ScottMorrisonMP prefers to let his gas mates sell it overseas for their profit. The Govts [----] promise to implement a national reservation policy has gone the way of all its promises. #auspol http://www.afr.com/business/energy/gas-buyers-fear-fresh-price-surge-amid-europe-crunch-20211116-p599l7btis http://www.afr.com/business/energy/gas-buyers-fear-fresh-price-surge-amid-europe-crunch-20211116-p599l7btis"
X Link 2021-11-21T21:11Z 40.5K followers, [---] engagements
"#BREAKING: The Senate has supported my motion to disallow the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission amendment regulations that would have subjected our charities to persecution by the @ScottMorrisonMP Government. #auspol"
X Link 2021-11-25T05:14Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The case for widespread free RATs is clear but @ScottMorrisonMP says you can't just make everything free. He didn't say that to big business as they took $billions in #JobKeeper money they didn't need. And the PM has billions more put away for election pork barreling. #auspol"
X Link 2022-01-02T22:27Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Mexicos President sought a US pardon for Julian #Assange while @ScottMorrisonMP and @MarisePayne have just sat on their hands. A disgraceful abandonment of an Australian citizen and an utter failure to defend #mediafreedom. #auspol https://www.sbs.com.au/news/mexico-president-says-he-urged-donald-trump-to-pardon-julian-assange-repeats-asylum-offer/9194d454-9c52-4f68-b0c8-2feac8f85550 https://www.sbs.com.au/news/mexico-president-says-he-urged-donald-trump-to-pardon-julian-assange-repeats-asylum-offer/9194d454-9c52-4f68-b0c8-2feac8f85550"
X Link 2022-01-03T23:30Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Novak Djokovic was NOT deported because he wasnt vaccinated. He was NOT deported because he made a mistake on his entry form. He was deported because the Minister for Immigration claimed he might stir up anti-vaccination sentiment. #auspol"
X Link 2022-01-16T22:04Z 40.6K followers, [----] engagements
"#TimorLeste a brand new & impoverished nation thought we were their friends. But in [----] we spied on them to steal their one source of revenue; Timor Sea oil & gas. Now we find out the spying for commercial gain started from the get go. #auspol #disgrace https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/09/alexander-downer-called-timor-leste-an-open-book-for-australia-in-2000-tribunal-hears https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/09/alexander-downer-called-timor-leste-an-open-book-for-australia-in-2000-tribunal-hears"
X Link 2022-02-08T19:55Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"#BREAKING I have just tabled the #TimorLeste Parliaments vote of confidence in Bernard Collaery in the @AuSenate. @LukeGoslingMP has done the same in the @AboutTheHouse #witnessk #auspol"
X Link 2022-02-09T03:14Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Its high time the Australian Government came clean about spying to steal Timors oil and gas. Continuing secrecy around that shameful episode undermines trust and confidence in our nation. Transparency is vital so everyone can move on. #auspol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-09/australia-may-have-bugged-timor-leste-political-leaders-in-2000/100815352 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-09/australia-may-have-bugged-timor-leste-political-leaders-in-2000/100815352"
X Link 2022-02-09T23:06Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"She didnt turn up for last weeks Senate sitting but managed to attend a weekend protest in Canberra. Shes missed Senate Estimates this week. She earns a $211K salary + allowances + super but doesnt turn up for work. Is she Australias most expensive dole bludger #auspol"
X Link 2022-02-18T01:31Z 40.9K followers, 10.5K engagements
"Politics in Australia regularly causes poor Defence outcomes. A [----] Defence report clearly backs Sydney as the preferred east coast sub base but why pick the best site when you can wave jobs and economic activity in front of three electorates #auspol https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/10b-plan-for-nuclear-submarine-base-under-fire-over-timing-potential-site-20220307-p5a2bi.html https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/10b-plan-for-nuclear-submarine-base-under-fire-over-timing-potential-site-20220307-p5a2bi.html"
X Link 2022-03-07T02:47Z 40.1K followers, [---] engagements
"The failure of Australia's well-paid spies to warn about Chinas deal with the Solomon Islands is an absolute debacle. There should be a wide-ranging inquiry. Coalition & Labor must end their opposition to parliamentary scrutiny of intel operations #auspol https://www.rexpatrick.com.au/solomon_islands_intelligence_failure_underlines_the_need_for_parliamentary_scrutiny https://www.rexpatrick.com.au/solomon_islands_intelligence_failure_underlines_the_need_for_parliamentary_scrutiny"
X Link 2022-04-12T22:10Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Australia can't take overseas supply chains for granted. We must be able to withstand and bounce back from international disruption. Today I'm announcing an important national resilience and security initiative I'll pursue in the next Parliament. #auspol https://www.rexpatrick.com.au/ensuring_australia_has_industrial_resilience_needs_to_be_enshrined_in_law https://www.rexpatrick.com.au/ensuring_australia_has_industrial_resilience_needs_to_be_enshrined_in_law"
X Link 2022-04-19T23:34Z 40.9K followers, [--] engagements
".@ScottMorrisonMP cant help himself. In a last secrecy hurrah the Govt has intervened to have proceedings conducted in secret in my appeal to access parts of a [----] Cabinet submission about Aust - #TimorLeste sea boundary negotiations. Open justice trashed yet again #auspol"
X Link 2022-04-30T21:29Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"In a frantic last minute rush to suppress John Howards #TimorLeste sea boundary negotiation dirty little secrets Attorney-General @SenatorCash spelt her own name wrong TWICE Shes now had to revoke and re-issue the dodgy public interest certificate. #auspol #incompetence"
X Link 2022-05-06T03:21Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"This morning from [--] am SA time I take on a taxpayer funded commercial barrister flown to Adelaide to suppress John Howards plans to steal #TimorLestes oil and gas. Ill have one hand tied behind my back as the Govts argument and evidence will all be heard in secret. #auspol"
X Link 2022-05-09T21:05Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"I very much hope that new Attorney-General @markdreyfusQCMP will act quickly to drop the unjust prosecution of Bernard Collaery and end the counter-productive secrecy shrouding Australia's past attempts to steal #TimorLeste's energy resources. #auspol https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/24/mark-dreyfus-flags-bernard-collaery-case-as-priority-if-appointed-attorney-general https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/24/mark-dreyfus-flags-bernard-collaery-case-as-priority-if-appointed-attorney-general"
X Link 2022-05-24T01:20Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The Archives is already paying $$$ private sector barrister to try to keep John Howards [----] plans to steal #TimorLestes oil & gas secret. Now @naagovau have failed to even respond to requests for related [----] docs. Another AAT case more barristers & wasted resources. #auspol"
X Link 2022-05-26T00:55Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Heres the letter I sent to @markdreyfusQCMP & @SenatorWong yesterday asking them to reveal past truths on Australias abhorrent conduct towards #TimorLeste. We want Timor to be our friends - we need them to be our friends. Good neighbourly relations are built on trust. #auspol"
X Link 2022-06-02T06:50Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The calls for an end to the persecution of Bernard Collaery are stronger than ever. The new Attorney General @markdreyfusQCMP must take action without delay and bring this shameful injustice to an end. #auspol #TimorLeste https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/03/crossbenchers-urge-new-attorney-general-to-end-prosecution-of-bernard-collaery https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/03/crossbenchers-urge-new-attorney-general-to-end-prosecution-of-bernard-collaery"
X Link 2022-06-02T22:29Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Heres the letter I sent to @markdreyfusQCMP on Tuesday calling on him to withdraw his consent to the shameful prosecution of Bernard Collaery. Doing so will serve the cause of justice and advance Australias relationship with #TimorLeste a friend and close neighbour. #auspol"
X Link 2022-06-02T22:32Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"I welcome @markdreyfusQCMPs decision to review the properness of the AAT secrecy certificate issued by @SenatorCash in my fight with the National Archives to unbury [--] year old cabinet documents about the Howard Govts attempts to steal #TimorLestes oil & gas resources. #auspol"
X Link 2022-06-29T21:52Z 40.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Ive been approached to run for the position of Lord Mayor of the City of #Adelaide. Im thinking about it. Its an important role where one could make a difference for the future of my home town and for South Australia. Watch this space. #saparli https://indaily.com.au/news/politics/2022/07/01/rex-for-mayor-patrick-weighs-up-adelaide-city-council-bid/ https://indaily.com.au/news/politics/2022/07/01/rex-for-mayor-patrick-weighs-up-adelaide-city-council-bid/"
X Link 2022-07-01T00:02Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
".@markdreyfusQCMPs use of s71 of the Judicial Act to discontinue the prosecution of Bernard Collaery is a big win for whistleblowing and a positive step in the repairing of Australias relationship with #TimorLeste. Well done Attorney-General #auspol https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/bernard-collaery-s-leaking-charges-over-east-timor-operation-dropped-on-mark-dreyfus-orders-20220707-p5azuu.html https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/bernard-collaery-s-leaking-charges-over-east-timor-operation-dropped-on-mark-dreyfus-orders-20220707-p5azuu.html"
X Link 2022-07-07T04:29Z 40.8K followers, [----] engagements
"To further repair relations with #TimorLeste we need complete transparency around Howards attempts to steal their oil & gas. @markdreyfusQCMP must now also revoke @SenatorCashs secrecy certificate in my AAT fight for access to related cabinet docs from [--] years ago. #auspol"
X Link 2022-07-07T04:46Z 40.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Heres me outside the Melbourne AAT hearing room where my appeal against Govt secrecy on #TimorLeste papers is underway. Im not allowed in to hear or rebut the Govts arguments. I cant listen to or challenge their witnesses. I cant have a lawyer present. Unjust #auspol"
X Link 2022-07-28T00:41Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"With evidence in the International Court of Arbitration centring on Witness Ks affidavit stating we spied on #TimorLeste during good faith oil & gas negotiations and charges against Witness K centring on the same affidavit - the dots are joined #auspol https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-time-has-come-for-full-disclosure-former-senator-rex-patrick-on-the-timor-leste-files/ https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-time-has-come-for-full-disclosure-former-senator-rex-patrick-on-the-timor-leste-files/"
X Link 2022-08-03T21:15Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Australians know their government spied on #TimorLeste inappropriately. The Timorese know. The international community know. There is no doubt. Yet Australian officials continue to neither confirm or deny the operation. They make a mockery of us. Its time to come clean. #auspol"
X Link 2022-08-03T21:19Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The revelation over the past few days that @ScottMorrisonMP secretly co-appointed himself as a minister (apparently in some cases without the knowledge of the extant minister) demands a dose of transparency. Im here to administer that dose. #auspol #FOI"
X Link 2022-08-15T07:20Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"1969: Australia granted [--] petroleum exploration permits over parts of the seabed that lay closer to Portuguese-Timor than Australia and then refused to talk to Portugal about a sea boundary even after their [----] formal protest about Australia's Timor Sea claim. #auspol"
X Link 2022-08-20T01:18Z 40.9K followers, [--] engagements
"1975 - 1999: Alone in the world and with the aim of accessing #TimorLestes oil & gas resources Australia encouraged and lent support to Indonesias invasion of Timor whose citizens preferred independence. [------] Timorese died opposing Indonesias occupation. #auspol"
X Link 2022-08-20T01:21Z 40.9K followers, [--] engagements
"2013: In response to #TimoreLeste commencing arbitration in The Hauge to have the fraud infected [----] treaty made void the Australian Government improperly raided and seized documents from the offices of Timor-Lestes lawyer in the proceedings. #auspol"
X Link 2022-08-20T01:28Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"2016: #TimorLeste launched compulsory conciliation under the Article [---] of the Law of the Sea Convention. Despite the Australian Govt claiming they engaged in good faith it made six objections to compulsory conciliation with the Commission dismissing them all. #auspol"
X Link 2022-08-20T01:30Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"2018: The Australian Govt concluded a treaty with #TimorLeste and then immediately commenced prosecuting Bernard Collaery the lawyer that blew the whistle on Australias abhorrent [----] spying operation. This was despite the Timorese viewing Collaery as a national hero. #auspol"
X Link 2022-08-20T01:33Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"My [----] #FOI attempts to access documents relating to Australias view of the Tasi Mane project have been met with secrecy claims. In an #FOI commissioners review its been revealed they tried to withhold access to media talking points and docs available on the web. #auspol"
X Link 2022-08-20T01:39Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"For over [--] years @dfat has tried to steal #TimorLestes oil & gas. They have acted in a disgraceful manner against both Australias and Timor-Lestes interest. Instead of Australians helping our northern friends develop an industry the Chinese will. End #PolicyFailure #auspol"
X Link 2022-08-20T01:44Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
".@JEChalmers cant call on families to tighten their budgets but not deal with multinational tax avoidance or ensure we receive proper royalties for our resources. He cant ask us that while exporting $170B to buy new subs that will arrive in [----]. #auspol https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7891760/stuck-in-the-tough-times-moment/ https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7891760/stuck-in-the-tough-times-moment/"
X Link 2022-09-07T21:29Z 41K followers, [---] engagements
"The fuel excise cut assisted with cost of living and reduced inflation by 1/4 percent. The @AlboMP Govt wont extend it because theyre focussing on a budget that can support stage [--] tax cuts for the wealthy. Poor policy and allocation of priority. #auspol https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7891188/why-canberra-is-so-expensive-and-how-its-going-to-get-worse/cs=14329 https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7891188/why-canberra-is-so-expensive-and-how-its-going-to-get-worse/cs=14329"
X Link 2022-09-24T23:49Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"If @AlexanderDowner favours encroaching on Adelaide Park Lands and knocking down heritage buildings to build a new Womens & Childrens Hospital then I know Im right in opposing it. We can have a hospital AND Park Lands AND heritage protection #saparli https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/downer-unloads-on-squeaky-wheelers-infight-for-adelaides-future/news-story/2271a096ab98f1b7281323ad0d3ee35d https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/downer-unloads-on-squeaky-wheelers-infight-for-adelaides-future/news-story/2271a096ab98f1b7281323ad0d3ee35d"
X Link 2022-10-14T22:53Z 40.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The Govt is still refusing to be transparent about Howard and Downers attempts [--] years ago to steal oil & gas resources from the new and impoverished #TimorLeste. Yesterdays @naagovau release to me of related Cabinet docs did nothing but deplete my printer ink. #auspol"
X Link 2022-10-21T03:04Z 41K followers, [----] engagements
".@Qantas seems determined to ruin my time away with my daughters. Putting aside lost bags and being seated apart when flying last night I arrived in Washington DC to find my apartment booked through Qantas and fully paid for five months ago not actually booked. #QantasSaga"
X Link 2022-12-25T21:28Z 39.8K followers, 838.7K engagements
"The @Qantas A-team have returned from Xmas holidays and put me and my daughters in two hotel rooms agreed to pick up the accomodation tab in Washington DC and offered the three of us a free Qantas holiday to compensate for the disruption weve experienced. 1/2 #QantasSaga .@Qantas have found a solution: Theyve offered to replace my prepaid two bedroom apartment (with a kitchen a laundry and parking) with a one bedroom hotel room with no facilities wait for it for the same price #QantasSaga https://t.co/LE6pUQrcSk .@Qantas have found a solution: Theyve offered to replace my prepaid two bedroom"
X Link 2022-12-27T05:04Z 40.9K followers, 290.3K engagements
"When factoring in the $170B cost the [----] delivery date and our lack of a nuclear industry buying nuke subs for our navy will be a disaster for our national security. @AlboMP must end this @ScottMorrisonMP inspired and misguided pipe dream. #auspol https://www.smh.com.au/national/scott-morrison-s-booby-trap-buying-us-nuclear-submarines-is-a-huge-mistake-20221214-p5c6af.html https://www.smh.com.au/national/scott-morrison-s-booby-trap-buying-us-nuclear-submarines-is-a-huge-mistake-20221214-p5c6af.html"
X Link 2022-12-27T23:28Z 40.9K followers, 52.7K engagements
"Ive been advised a decision is pending on whether the Archives must release year [----] Cabinet papers relating to the Howard Govts plans to steal #TimorLestes oil and gas. Watch this space. #auspol Heres me outside the Melbourne AAT hearing room where my appeal against Govt secrecy on #TimorLeste papers is underway. Im not allowed in to hear or rebut the Govts arguments. I cant listen to or challenge their witnesses. I cant have a lawyer present. Unjust #auspol https://t.co/AOmBXkGJ9P Heres me outside the Melbourne AAT hearing room where my appeal against Govt secrecy on #TimorLeste papers is"
X Link 2023-01-18T03:54Z 40.9K followers, 58.4K engagements
"The Govt is engaged in a desperate legal scramble to try to censor the AATs decision on access to [--] year old Cabinet docs relating to #TimorLeste. I wonder if the Tribunal finds as I requested it to that spying on the Timorese sea boundary negotiating team took place. #auspol"
X Link 2023-02-05T22:38Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"A 👇letter👇 reluctantly released to me shows that when reviewing the book @dfat tried to blur the line between required changes (dealing with national security) and editorial comments. Theres still great secrecy about what DFAT actually did manage to change. #auspol 2/3"
X Link 2023-02-19T22:41Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"#VICTORY With [--] hrs to go until a first AAT #FOI hearing into @ScottMorrisonMPs outrageous claim National Cabinet was still a Cabinet despite a judge ruling otherwise the Govt has capitulated and granted me access to all docs from the first [--] meetings. #auspol #transparency"
X Link 2023-04-20T06:53Z 40.9K followers, 153.2K engagements
"Every day Kathryn Campbell sits in her $900K per annum #AUKUS advisor roll is a day of insult to those who suffered under the #RoboDebt scheme. #FOI has uncovered the dodgy expedited process that created her job from thin air and handed it to her. #auspol https://michaelwest.com.au/kathryn-campbell-from-robodebt-ignominy-to-plum-defence-job/ https://michaelwest.com.au/kathryn-campbell-from-robodebt-ignominy-to-plum-defence-job/"
X Link 2023-05-12T20:48Z 40.9K followers, 380.5K engagements
"As Australia takes on an unaffordable and risk ladened $368B project to procure [--] #AUKUS nuclear subs our five-eyes partner Canada is eyeing off a much more sensible purchase of [--] sea-proven Sth Korean designed large conventional subs for $70B. #auspol"
X Link 2023-05-19T21:56Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"As the Govt seeks to save Defence money in other programs to help pay for our overseas built 2nd-hand #AUKUS Virginia Class subs Australian industry workers and sovereign capability look like big losers. #auspol"
X Link 2023-05-25T21:55Z 38.5K followers, [---] engagements
"#AUKUS submarine cost comparison. UK's new SSBN programme cost is AUD $76B - thats $19B per sub. Australia's [--] SSN will cost $368B - thats $46B per sub. At more than twice the price Paul Keating has nailed it - the worst deal in all history. #auspol"
X Link 2023-06-13T09:58Z 37.6K followers, 38.1K engagements
".@AlboMP has now engaged a commercial barrister to fight #FOI access to his diary so that he doesnt have to reveal who hes meeting and who is influencing him. Its this sort of thing that causes people to think that hes just another pollie. #auspol"
X Link 2023-06-27T22:36Z 37.3K followers, 108.4K engagements
".@Treasury_AU has engaged two lawyers and counsel to argue in the AAT that its not in the public interest to release a brief it provided to @JEChalmers on Stage [--] Tax Cuts. Thats YOUR money being used to try to keep information from you about a $313B budget item. #auspol #FOI"
X Link 2023-06-29T06:06Z 37.8K followers, [---] engagements
"We must remove the tentacles of private interest from the Public Service. We must also ban those morally bankrupt consultancy firms trading in socially harming aggressive tax minimisation from ever receiving a cent from the taxpayers kitty. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-12T21:20Z 38.5K followers, 17.4K engagements
"Its been one day since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported. Since that time Kathryn Campbell has accumulated $2445.56 in salary courtesy of taxpayers. #auspol #AUKUS"
X Link 2023-07-09T11:42Z 37.4K followers, 100.5K engagements
"Its been two days since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported. Since that time Kathryn Campbell has accumulated $4891.12 in salary courtesy of taxpayers. #auspol #AUKUS"
X Link 2023-07-09T02:27Z 38.5K followers, 30K engagements
"The employment of Ms Campbell by Defence Secretary Greg Moriarty raises very serious questions as to his judgement. His decision to retain Ms Campbell on a completely unjustifiable $892630 raises very serious questions as to propriety. 1/2 #auspol #misappropriation #referral"
X Link 2023-07-09T00:04Z 38.5K followers, 88.5K engagements
"Ms Campbell went from being responsible for Australias foreign affairs and managing [----] people to being just an advisor and yet she retained her $893K salary. Was it jobs for mates I await further #FOI returns. 2/2 #auspol #misappropriation #referral"
X Link 2023-07-09T09:42Z 38.5K followers, 11.2K engagements
"For me it feels very similar to sports rorts says @MakeMayoMatter. Rebekha Sharkie is right and now the Auditor-General looks set to examine this slimy pork barrel dressed up as a grant round. Some things in politics never change ☹. 1/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-09T20:31Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Its been three days since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported. Since that time Kathryn Campbell has accumulated $7336.68 in salary courtesy of taxpayers. All in a long weekends work (Ms Campbell is on leave). 1/2 #auspol #AUKUS"
X Link 2023-07-10T00:23Z 38.5K followers, 48.4K engagements
".@AlboMP could have quickly terminated Ms Campbell from her DFAT Secretarys role in May last year using Section [--] of the Public Service Act. Now shes in an #AUKUS advisor role only the Defence Secretary Greg Moriarty can remove her - after a long process. 2/2 #auspol 👇SMH👇"
X Link 2023-07-10T08:28Z 37.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@Stirling20121 @AlboMP Heres part of the backstory"
X Link 2023-07-09T22:24Z 38.5K followers, [---] engagements
"PWC from its moral low point has work out its not appropriate for corporations to give political parties money. Sadly the politicians grilling PWC on its moral failings havent worked out that they shouldnt be taking money from corporations. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-11T00:55Z 38.5K followers, 22K engagements
"$9782.25 Thats how much Kathryn Campbell has accumulated in salary in the FOUR DAYS since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported. Tomorrow it will be a five figure dollar value. 🤦♂🤷♂ #auspol #AUKUS"
X Link 2023-07-10T22:05Z 38.5K followers, 32.8K engagements
"@BarbaraPocock Sorry my tweet was directed at the duopoly - who as you know have no interest in knocking back payment for access and influence. You have been doing a fantastic job on this"
X Link 2023-07-11T00:00Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Former @APS_Commission-er Peter Woolcott the man who approved Kathryn Campbells $892K #AUKUS salary refused me #FOI access to the secretaries clubs views on the #RobodebtRC. Now that my appeal is in the AAT Ill invite the new Commissioner to remake the decision. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-11T07:10Z 38.5K followers, 27.7K engagements
"Misfeasance in public office is a 'very peculiar tort which if established creates a personal liability for public officials and possibly for ministers. A refreshing thought; wrongdoers inside government being held financially responsible. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-11T07:43Z 37.3K followers, 32K engagements
"@wayout1 No thats the point of my tweet. The starting point for misfeasance in public office is that the responsibility is personal although the plaintiff may seek to hold the Commonwealth vicariously liable on account of the government having deeper pockets"
X Link 2023-07-11T07:54Z 38.5K followers, [---] engagements
"The law permits exports to be stopped to prevent a domestic gas shortage. The Govt must ignore the gas cartels self-serving rhetoric and make it clear to them that their shameless greed and overcharging has killed off their social licence. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-11T22:12Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Kathryn Campbell has hit five figures with $12227.81 accumulated in salary in the FIVE DAYS since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported. Time to deal with the issue @AlboMP. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-11T21:38Z 38.5K followers, 44.7K engagements
"A further development in the long running cluster fiasco that is our future submarine project with the US Chief of Naval Operations saying Were not going to be in a position to sell any nuclear subs to the Australians. What a blessing #auspol #AUKUS"
X Link 2023-07-12T00:35Z 38.5K followers, 10.3K engagements
"Its almost beyond belief that the Reserve Bank has done NO ANALYSIS as to what effect filling up (especially wealthy) peoples wallets with Stage [--] Tax Cut money will have on inflation. Maybe they just dont want to know #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-12T07:23Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"For every political donation there is a giver and a receiver. Either the giver or the receiver can stop the transaction. This issue is not just about the conflicted consulting firms. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-13T00:05Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Cmon @AlboMP its been a whole WEEK since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported and theres been no action on its findings. Meanwhile Kathryn Campbell has accumulated $17118.93 in salary. Thats a number that piles disrespect on every #RoboDebt victim. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-15T05:28Z 38.5K followers, 56.2K engagements
"Im in the AAT Mon - Wed fighting Govt for #FOI access to a major project base schedule & monthly progress reports. The Govt has rolled out high level witnesses for which the AAT will by default pay high regard to - despite RoboDebt and this👇🤦♂. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-14T03:44Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Its been EIGHT DAYS since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported. In that time Kathryn Campbell has accumulated $19564.49 in salary courtesy of taxpayers. That exceeds the total amount of financial assistance unemployed people are provided with for an entire year. 1/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-14T22:45Z 37.4K followers, 42.6K engagements
"Most MPs dont know what theyre voting for when the bells in Parliament ring. They just sit on whichever side of the chamber their Party whip is sitting. If youre voting in #Fadden today vote for someone wholl represent YOU not their party. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-17T17:25Z 38.5K followers, 14.6K engagements
"Kathryn Campbell has accumulated almost [--] GRAND in salary in the [--] DAYS since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported. Delay in dealing with the findings of the Royal Commission is turning out to be a rather good deal for her. Whats going on @AlboMP #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-17T09:47Z 37.7K followers, 24.8K engagements
"Theres a strong case for a Royal Commission into the integration (infiltration) of the big [--] consulting firms into the public service and the deep conflicts of interest (public good vs private profit) it creates. We must get to the bottom of this. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-17T18:12Z 38.5K followers, 17.1K engagements
"For the next [--] days Im in the AAT fighting [--] taxpayer funded barristers and their instructing solicitors to establish that the pubic interest in the disclosure of cost and schedule (non)performance for any Govt project outweighs the desire of companies to keep it secret. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-17T09:47Z 37.3K followers, [----] engagements
"11 days after adverse findings were published by the #RoboDebt Royal Commission and the taxpayers money keeps flowing $26901.18 of taxpayers money to be exact. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-18T04:47Z 37.3K followers, 14.4K engagements
"In an August [----] Senate Inquiry report I warned that the site for the National Radioactive Waste Management facility can only be selected with the approval of the host community. The @ScottMorrisonMP Govt did not take heed. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-20T02:20Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Its been [--] days since the #RoboDebt Royal Commission reported. Since that time Kathryn Campbell has accumulated $29346.74 plus 👇PERKS👇 (revealed in Estimates answers to Senator @BarbaraPocock). #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-20T02:19Z 38.5K followers, 21.5K engagements
"@Maintenonmadame @MarieColemanAO @SophieScamps It seems you are unaware of the terms of s59 of the Public Service Act - which allows a Prime Minister to terminate the employment of a Secretary after meeting very simple procedural fairness requirements"
X Link 2023-07-20T00:53Z 38.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Kathryn Campbell is a Major-General in the Army Reserves. @ChiefAusArmy needs to consider whether the qualities of leadership Ms Campbell exhibited in her time at Human/Social Services are consistent with the expectations he has for his officers. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-20T03:08Z 38.5K followers, 28.6K engagements
"In January [----] when #RoboDebt was in full swing Kathryn Campbell received an Order of Australia for distinguished service to public administration through senior roles with government departments and to the Australian Army Reserve. This award must be cancelled. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-20T21:26Z 38.5K followers, 84.5K engagements
"It costs $368B delivers a 1st sub in [--] years time introduces nuclear reactors to Australia benefits foreign shipyards over local was announced as a fait accompli and you dont want it discussed at your party conference. Really @AlboMP #auspol #AUKUS https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/anthony-albanese-warns-labor-to-leave-aukus-and-palestine-position-untouched-at-conference/news-story/16e436ebac8398e8b90ca603c5272300"
X Link 2023-07-23T21:41Z 40.9K followers, 112.6K engagements
"Whilst I welcome news that Kathryn Campbell has resigned its news that should have come much much earlier. Sadly it will only serve as small justice to those who suffered under the #RoboDebt scheme. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-24T06:57Z 38.5K followers, 33.1K engagements
"Dont you just admire how our our Defence Dept can buy a $200 million aircraft for $490 million each. That takes tremendous skill and effort; and so soon after negotiating the #AUKUS worst deal in all history. Pity the poor taxpayer. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-30T02:54Z 38.5K followers, 65.3K engagements
"#AUKUS is costing the taxpayer $368B. @AlboMP says it will create [-----] jobs. Where and when though Defence has done a workforce study but is refusing to release it stating theyre shy about having the public look their work and its just not in the public interest. 1/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-30T00:02Z 38.5K followers, 16.7K engagements
"Weve just paid $490M each for an aircraft worth only $200M. Weve seen a [--] fold increase in its price (above inflation) for an aircraft we first fielded in [----]. Its egregious gouging of our national treasury via compliant defence bureaucrats. #auspol"
X Link 2023-07-29T07:28Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Crossbench Negotiating Rule #1: When the Govt needs your vote for something they REALLY want (industrial relations changes) dont agree to a REVIEW about what you REALLY want (an increase to JobSeeker) instead INSIST on what you REALLY want. 1/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-01T10:27Z 38.5K followers, 37.6K engagements
"A consultant engaged to advise Finance on how it should engage consultants🤦♂. The Depts Secretary is on $892K three of her deputies earn circa $450K each and yet no one can make a decision without external help. A big rethink is required #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-02T21:23Z 38.5K followers, 54.1K engagements
"Calling for a lower company tax rate is meaningless when many large companies pay no tax at all. We should have a FAIRER company tax system where all companies contribute back to the safe and stable society in which they conduct their business. #auspol https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/just-not-competitive-industry-urges-tax-reform-20230802-p5dt6c https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/just-not-competitive-industry-urges-tax-reform-20230802-p5dt6c"
X Link 2023-08-02T22:13Z 40.2K followers, 19.3K engagements
"EVERY fire season we export taxpayers $$$$$$ to the US to bring aerial firefighting capabilities here; capabilities we should own (and lease out in our off-season) but dont because @AlboMP has embraced Defences opulent want (not need) for $368B #AUKUS subs. Go @NSWRFS #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-03T02:32Z 38.5K followers, 13.8K engagements
"External fund managers are milking our $22B Medical Research Future Fund in $400 million annual management fees. Its a disgraceful situation and one of the reasons the @Greens are right to question @AlboMPs proposed Housing Future Fund. 1/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-03T20:40Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Small businesses should pay a fair amount of tax but so too should the big multinationals. Right now many multinationals pay no tax and in the case of the oil and gas cartel also plunder our finite resources. We need a fairer tax system now. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-04T08:45Z 38.5K followers, 15K engagements
"As @AlboMP pumps $3B of Australian taxpayers money into US shipyards hes terminated a $1.2B investment in our local space industry. Its a disgraceful #AUKUS related decision that will harm our manufacturing sector even further. #FOIs pending. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-03T21:21Z 38.5K followers, 16.7K engagements
"As successive Australia governments have slept our economic complexity ranking has recently fallen below that of Uganda. We need to stop just exporting our rocks and instead value-add here. We cant be a land of miners and baristas. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-04T00:47Z 37.8K followers, 30.9K engagements
"If you need to see a lawyer before you blow the whistle then somethings wrong with the law. If you need to see a lawyer after youve blown the whistle then somethings even more wrong. If youre in Adelaide this coming Wednesday lend your support to @Richard_D_Boyle. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-06T07:44Z 38.5K followers, 23.1K engagements
".@AlboMP should face his party members after announcing #AUKUS as a fait accompli. And for the SA and WA branches of @theamwu that might support the project given promises over jobs ask the PM why hes keeping two AUKUS workforce studies secret #auspol https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/labor-faces-growing-grassroots-party-revolt-over-aukus-pact/news-story/0b1b68c68b57d060a664ed3bc511b36d https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/labor-faces-growing-grassroots-party-revolt-over-aukus-pact/news-story/0b1b68c68b57d060a664ed3bc511b36d"
X Link 2023-08-06T22:08Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"#RoboDebt the conduct of the ACT DPP and the still unfolding Big Four consulting swindle could all have been prevented if whistleblowers were rewarded for calling out misconduct. But instead we have @MarkDreyfusKCMP prosecuting them. 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂ #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-06T22:27Z 38.5K followers, 15.7K engagements
"Hes a senior officer who works for the army for up to [---] days a year juggling the role with his KPMG position that is focused on securing new Defence contracts for the firm. How did Defence or KPMG not see an issue with this arrangement #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-07T21:55Z 38.5K followers, 42.5K engagements
"In [----] we decided to buy new subs. Singapore did the same in [----]. They ordered their subs in [----] and the first of [--] has just arrived. Unit cost $600M. So far weve spent $4B getting no subs. First 2nd hand #AUKUS sub may arrive in [----]. Unit cost $B https://www.navaltoday.com/2023/08/07/singapores-first-invincible-class-submarine-delivered/ https://www.navaltoday.com/2023/08/07/singapores-first-invincible-class-submarine-delivered/"
X Link 2023-08-08T06:21Z 40.8K followers, 59K engagements
"Just to confirm what you say is correct heres a graph of Singapores economic complexity ranking (5) and Australias (93). For good measure Ive added Uganda to the graph who recently jumped ahead of us (at 92). #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-08T06:48Z 38.5K followers, 13.9K engagements
"The Australian Local Government Association wants a $6B federal boost to local government to help maintain and build essential roads and bridges. But @AlboMP much prefers pouring your money into upgrading US/UK shipyards to prepare for #AUKUS 🤷♂. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-08T21:36Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"By the time the first electrons flows from an Australian nuclear reactor in well over a decades time renewable base-load issues will have been solved. @PeterDutton_MP is trying to drive forward while looking exclusively in the rear view mirror. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-08T21:50Z 38.5K followers, 13.6K engagements
"Instead of focussing on having the sovereign capabilities to defend ourselves and ensuring we can make our own decisions about war and peace our Govt has chosen in the words of an earlier Prime Minister to go all the way with the USA. 1/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-08T22:35Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"But full Australian integration into the strategic plans of the US personally benefits our senior officials. It distracts us from the vulnerability created by their Defence procurement incompetence and involves them in overseas trips and big league decision making. 2/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-08T22:37Z 37.7K followers, [----] engagements
"In [----] PwC proposed the dream in a joint report with the American and British Chamber of Commerce. In [----] PwC is living the dream as are US and UK industry. #AUKUS #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-09T12:05Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Aside from the climate change issue - here we have the Govt subsidising the same greed driven gas cartel that prioritises export supply over domestic supply price gouges everyday Aussies and businesses and pays no royalties for OUR gas. #auspol #snafu"
X Link 2023-08-09T21:15Z 38.5K followers, 13.1K engagements
"It seems @AlboMPs transparency allergy worsens with each passing week. Maybe this is an occupational hazard for Prime Ministers. At his current rate he risks catching up up with @ScottMorrisonMP. He should reflect on this. #auspol #FOI"
X Link 2023-08-09T21:54Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The Coalition really did bungle the selection of a National Radioactive Waste Management Facility site. In trying to find a suitable site their starting point was to say Farmers who wants to sell your land at [--] times the market value. 1/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-10T01:08Z 37.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@ShriekingVi @DavidHa30584721 @AlboMP Your advice in the face of a lack of transparency is to give in Its a strange line to take and I shall not be following your advice at least not until you come up and present to me cogent reasons as to why I should"
X Link 2023-08-10T02:13Z 37.7K followers, [--] engagements
"In [----] when the world has embraced base-load renewables and fusion a young man named Dutton will be asking himself what was my great-grandfather thinking as hes trying to deal with the waste from #AUKUS subs and small modular reactors. 1/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-10T21:06Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The possible siting of the National Radioactive Waste Management Facility within the Woomera Prohibited Area is incompatible with Defence's operational and capability needs for the testing of war material. Defence Dept to Senate - [--] June [----]. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-10T21:34Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Deciding on a site and then trying to defend it against the community doesnt work. The only way to manage our radioactive waste is to engage the community from the start. That means the whole community including the lands traditional owners. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-11T02:39Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"And do you think senior officials at @DefenceAust are able to grasp this simple community engagement concept 👇Heres the answer👇 #auspol #AUKUS @RichardMarlesMP"
X Link 2023-08-11T02:51Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Two talented young lawyers on my staff worked with constituents against Service Australia chaperoning matters through the AAT winning then briefing me so that I could take #RoboDebt [---] to the Senate. The work of those two lawyers has paid off. #auspol https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2023/08/11/exclusive-dpp-reviews-prosecutions-false-welfare-debts https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2023/08/11/exclusive-dpp-reviews-prosecutions-false-welfare-debts"
X Link 2023-08-11T20:15Z 40.5K followers, 20.4K engagements
"If the Liberals are to win government again the party has to be more moderate says the man who deposed @TurnbullMalcolm. 🤷♂ #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-11T21:24Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The prosecution of David McBride is in actual fact a trial of Attorney-General @MarkDreyfusKCMPs moral fortitude and integrity. Sadly all that will be seen is that like his predecessors Dreyfus has been captured by the security estate. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-12T22:37Z 38.5K followers, 35K engagements
"Two weeks ago it was revealed that our first law officer @MarkDreyfusKCMP tampered with an Administrative Appeal Tribunal matter by improperly endorsing a confidentiality certificate that interfered with open justice. He engaged in secrecy overreach. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-12T23:02Z 38.5K followers, 17.6K engagements
"As @MadeleineMHKing lectures that our nations wealth comes from resources and mining she should reflect on how successive Govts 1) failed to collect proper royalties and 2) created the dependency by not supporting our manufacturing sector and dumbing down our economy. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-13T23:38Z 38.5K followers, 29.6K engagements
"The #AUKUS sub program will provide nothing in the way of deterrence for at least a decade. Meanwhile its $368B price tag will draw money away from other immediately needed capabilities. @RichardMarlesMPs argument is desperately hollow. #auspol @theamwu"
X Link 2023-08-15T20:51Z 38.5K followers, 19K engagements
"No matter how much lipstick you put on a pig especially an #AUKUS pig its still a pig. #auspol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-17/albanese-defend-aukus-at-labor-conference-/102743594 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-17/albanese-defend-aukus-at-labor-conference-/102743594"
X Link 2023-08-17T08:56Z 40.9K followers, 16.4K engagements
"In order to appease @theamwu and @CFMEU on the worst deal in all history @AlboMP is promising [-----] secure well-paid unionised jobs. Hes very open on the high level promises but completely 👇opaque👇 on the details. #auspol #AUKUS #FOI"
X Link 2023-08-17T20:01Z 41K followers, [----] engagements
"I have come to the position based upon advice and analysis that nuclear-powered submarines are what Australia needs in the future says @AlboMP. That advice and analysis comes from the most incompetent and self-interested Dept we have. #auspol #AUKUS https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/pm-stares-down-anti-aukus-appeasers-20230818-p5dxi8 https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/pm-stares-down-anti-aukus-appeasers-20230818-p5dxi8"
X Link 2023-08-18T21:54Z 41K followers, 27K engagements
"In @RichardMarlesMPs [--] paragraph #AUKUS statement to be inserted into the Labor Partys National Platform he states that regular updates on nuclear safety and stewardship will be provided to Parliament and the public. Yet I got a 100% refusal to this #FOI. 1/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-19T00:22Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Yesterday the @OAICgov advised me that @DefenceAust has objected to this nuclear stewardship and safety #FOI being fast-tracked to the AAT. Despite the claim made by @RichardMarlesMP his Department wants to take the slow road to #AUKUS transparency. 2/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-19T00:23Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"I served in the RAN submarine force (Oberons and Collins) for [--] years and then worked in Defence industry. I utilise my experiences (including time spent at sea on USN nuclear sub) to conclude #AUKUS is a bad spend. Heres a diagram that will help you understand why. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-19T04:42Z 38.5K followers, 38K engagements
"@MarkSpe64868944 I dont think the Hunter frigate is a good choice for use in this argument. It is a very expensive and (project) risk laden proposition"
X Link 2023-08-19T07:26Z 38.5K followers, [---] engagements
"In a common political ploy @RichardMarlesMP gave no time for @AustralianLabor Party delegates to consider and contest his #AUKUS statement before they were asked to vote on it. Heres my rebuttal to each of his [--] paragraphs of sophistry. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-19T21:38Z 37.5K followers, 24K engagements
".@RichardMarlesMP declared to @AustralianLabor delegates that #AUKUS does not involve any ante facto commitment to participate in the military operations of the US. But thanks to @Wikileaks we know what Labors real position has long been. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-19T22:02Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
".@RichardMarlesMP declared to @AustralianLabor delegates that Labor will maximise #AUKUS opportunities for our companies. The same was promised in [----] for a joint combat system program. Despite us contributing billions theres NOT ONE AUSSIE PRODUCT on US subs. #auspol @theamwu"
X Link 2023-08-19T22:30Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
".@RichardMarlesMP declared to @AustralianLabor delegates that our interests lie in shaping a region that is peaceful stable and prosperous. But as he looks to help the US in North Asia theres slow motion genocide taking place a stones throw away in West Papua. 1/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-19T22:53Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Meanwhile @RichardMarlesMP has held [--] meetings with Indonesian General Prabowo Subianto a man banned from the US on account of his human rights abuses. In [----] he led Indonesian forces in bloody reprisal actions against West Papua separatists. 2/2 #auspol #LookTheOtherWay"
X Link 2023-08-19T22:55Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
".@RichardMarlesMP declared to @AustralianLabor delegates There will be an identification of Australian manufacturers in the supply chain in the building maintenance and modification of all naval vessels. As for our frigates that means a flag pole in each. #auspol @theamwu"
X Link 2023-08-19T23:34Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Last October our expert Radiation Health and Safety Advisory Council warned Govt that the #AUKUS nuclear regulator should NOT sit within Defence. @AlboMP ignored that advice and now we see Defence paying EY for advice that best suits its plans. 1/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-20T20:29Z 38.5K followers, 11.2K engagements
"When Treasurer @JEChalmers appears at the Press Club on Thursday to explain what the Govt is doing to position Australia moving forward maybe he can explain how hes going to get our manufacturing as a % of GDP above that of Botswana 1/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-20T21:17Z 37.3K followers, 11.6K engagements
"and get our economic complexity back above that of Ugandas (hint: stop just exporting our rocks - value-add here). 2/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-20T21:20Z 37.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Amortentia was thought by Harry Potter fans to be the worlds strongest love potion. But its strength seems mild compared to the potion being used on our Defence officials paying excessive prices for subs aircraft and now rockets from the US. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-21T22:26Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The influence of gambling corporations is all pervasive infecting our sport our TV and other media our education institutions and our politics. Only a handful of our MPs have been prepared to resist these social parasites. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-21T22:41Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"A recent @pmc_gov_au brief to the PM on gambling advertising shows that @AlboMP has been made fully aware of the harm that gambling does particularly to children and young people. Yet hes doing nothing substantial to deal with the problem. #auspol #FOI"
X Link 2023-08-21T23:55Z 37.9K followers, [----] engagements
"What a mess Now the US is baulking on #AUKUS subs. Heres a [--] step remedy. 1) Sack our failed Defence leadership. 2) Stop the nuclear sub deal. 3) Buy [--] off-the-shelf AIP subs built in Australia and enhanced by Australian industry. 1/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-22T02:24Z 38.5K followers, 20.4K engagements
"Good on @tanya_plibersek for moving to water buybacks the most efficient way to return water to the #MurrayDarling. But the Govt must also upgrade the Plan from a politically fraudulent [----] GL return target to a scientific [----] GL return target. #saparli"
X Link 2023-08-22T07:23Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Singapore by design has a resilient diversified economy; electronics chemicals biomedical finance tourism internationalised services etc. Australia by folly has a dependant economy as we just exports rocks and gas. We must change. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-22T22:14Z 38.5K followers, 21.3K engagements
"On the weekend Defence Minister @RichardMarlesMP told @AustralianLabor of #AUKUS Labor will work to reverse the over-reliance on private contractors in our defence knowledge decisions and capacity. Meanwhile back at the Australian Submarine Agency 👇👇👇 . #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-23T01:08Z 37.7K followers, 31.5K engagements
"@dwightwalker @RichardMarlesMP @AustralianLabor The initial point of my tweet was the juxtaposition between what the Minister is saying and what his Department is doing. But I dont think we should be paying Vice Admiral Mead $695425 per annum and then paying the same and more for management advisory services"
X Link 2023-08-23T05:56Z 37.3K followers, [---] engagements
"I was pleased to mingle with @Richard_D_Boyle David McBride and others at the launch of the @humanrightsHRLCs Whistleblower Project a legal support service that would be completely unnecessary if the Govt did its job to protect whistleblowers. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-24T20:55Z 37.6K followers, 11.3K engagements
"As a former submariner I know what submarine info should and shouldnt be kept secret. Info in 👇this #FOI👇 should most certainly be public and subject to scrutiny and debate. Yesterday in the AAT I launched the first serious challenge to #AUKUS secrecy overreach. 1/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-24T21:41Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"In May [----] I specifically queried the Antarctic Division What's the status of the Nuyina and Tasman Bridge compatibility assessment They responded Were confident that the vessel will be approved to go underneath the Tasman Bridge . #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-25T08:38Z 38.5K followers, 14.8K engagements
"Exactly whats going on with Snowy [---] Whats the latest cost Is Florence (the tunnel mole) moving yet Neither Snowy Hydro Ltd the Dept or the Minister are talking; rather theyve tried to wrap a secrecy snow blanket over the whole project. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-25T21:09Z 38.5K followers, 10.9K engagements
"In November McBride will be the first person on trial in relation to war crimes committed by Australian forces in Afghanistan the whistleblower not a war criminal. @MarkDreyfusKCMP could stop this injustice but he lacks the political courage #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-25T21:32Z 38.5K followers, 52.8K engagements
"I think the @SatPaper expresses it well through this cartoon. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-25T23:26Z 38.5K followers, 11.5K engagements
"This debacle - where our $528M icebreaking research vessel cant safely pass underneath Hobarts Tasman Bridge to refuel - begs for an #FOI. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-25T23:55Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Its always sad when military personnel die in the service of their country. The recent @AustralianArmy MRH-90 accident and now this @USMC tragedy highlight the risks taken by all servicemen and women. Sincere condolences. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-27T08:28Z 37.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Australian shareholder ownership of Rio Tinto is 8%. Just as it exports almost all of our rocks to overseas jurisdictions for the value-adding to be done it exports almost all of its dividends to overseas bank accounts. #JustSaying #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-27T20:30Z 40.1K followers, 105.5K engagements
"@Stoxxie I dont tweet without being able to back up what I say. 👇👇This👇 from a Bloomberg investor brief"
X Link 2023-08-27T22:32Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@WhisperKats I didnt say a word about @AlboMP - I was just informing people of Rio Tinto shareholder statistical information from a Bloomberg investor brief"
X Link 2023-08-27T22:38Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@JoYohana @JaneCaro Rounded"
X Link 2023-08-27T22:40Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@Adelaide0024 Heres the top 5"
X Link 2023-08-27T22:41Z 40.8K followers, [----] engagements
"You should stop tweeting while you are ahead @Stoxxie. In the alternate; research first then tweet. 👇From ASICs website.👇 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-27T22:48Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"An interesting attitude coming out of the UK where Australian companies might get the #AUKUS scraps on account of UK companies being flush with work. #auspol 👉"
X Link 2023-08-27T23:26Z 37.6K followers, [----] engagements
"At [----] AEST I will appear before the Senates Inquiry into The Operation of Commonwealth #FOI Laws. It will be my first time appearing before a Senate Committee so wish me luck 😉. #auspol You can listen in here 👉"
X Link 2023-08-28T02:13Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"A new @dfat #FOI release on #Assange confirms the Australian Govt is waiting until Mr Assange's legal processes have concluded." The reality is @AlboMP is waiting until Julian has been extradited tried sentenced and is rotting in a US super-maximum security prison. 1/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-28T21:52Z 37.3K followers, 24.1K engagements
"The US Govts claim that it cant intervene in these sorts of matters is rubbish. It recently released a convicted arms trafficker because it suited them.@AlboMP could press for #Assanges release but hes all too intoxicated with being let inside the US tent. 2/2 #auspol #AUKUS"
X Link 2023-08-28T21:57Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"My tweet yesterday seemed to surprise many on who really owns Rio Tinto. 👇Heres👇 a slightly dated article that will open peoples eyes further to the level of foreign ownership in our companies. BHP CBA CSL NAB - hardly big Australians. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-28T22:12Z 38.5K followers, 22.4K engagements
"@jaraparilla @dfat @AlboMP Fresh off the press - last month. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-28T22:15Z 38.5K followers, [---] engagements
"While 20% of Australians closely follow what happens in the Parliament its the other 80% who decide whos in the Parliament 😉. #auspol @ajamesbragg @MrRexPatrick Its such a shame @MrRexPatrick is not in our parliament. When you look at some others who got into the senate our system is flawed. @ajamesbragg @MrRexPatrick Its such a shame @MrRexPatrick is not in our parliament. When you look at some others who got into the senate our system is flawed"
X Link 2023-08-28T23:32Z 40.9K followers, 10.4K engagements
"Attorney-General @MarkDreyfusKCMP cant just turn away from the allegation made by the former #FOI Commissioner that the @OAICgov deliberately misled the Federal Court (in my FOI delay matter). Its a serious public administration #integrity issue which he MUST address. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-29T21:30Z 38.5K followers, [---] engagements
"One could be forgiven for thinking that the independent Information Commissioner (IC) in starving and strangling #FOI reviews was working to please her political masters. Its like the IC went to the Kathryn Campbell school of public service. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-29T22:01Z 38.5K followers, 12.2K engagements
"Apparently Im universally feared by government #FOI bureaucrats. Actually Im very friendly and always polite. I just yearn for greater government #transparency. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-29T22:22Z 38.5K followers, 29.7K engagements
"Having guzzled down the #AUKUS Kool-Aid @AlboMP is now so in the thrall of his national security bureaucrats that he can't act in either the public interest or even his own political interest. One might have hoped for better. 1/2 #ClimateCrisis #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-30T09:29Z 38.5K followers, 10.1K engagements
"The Office of National Intelligence report on the national security impacts of #climatechange is exempt from #FOI. But the input of other agencies to that report are not. So Ive lodged new FOI requests. @AlboMP could do much better on #transparency. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-30T09:34Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"A new cost of $12B with @Bowenchris saying the project is looking to get back on track. It cant be the $2B - finished in [----] track or the $6B - finished in [----] track so it must be the no-one gets fired and the taxpayer pays track. 1/2 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-31T05:13Z 37.7K followers, [----] engagements
"All too often politics is a triumph of low expectations. Thats certainly the case with @AlboMPs commitment to #transparency. Loud in opposition pathetic in govt. #FOI together with a strong cross-bench is proving vital for effective scrutiny. #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-31T21:05Z 38.5K followers, 22.1K engagements
"Our manufacturing as a % of GDP has plummeted our economic complexity ranking has fallen and now👇this👇. @AlboMP needs to stop talking-the-talk and start walking-the-walk otherwise when coal and gas exports stop well be left on our knees. 1/3 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-31T21:20Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Our manufacturing has plummeted to 5.5% of GDP matching that of Botswana. 2/3 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-31T21:22Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Our economic complexity ranking has fallen to 93rd below that of Uganda. 3/3 #auspol"
X Link 2023-08-31T21:25Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
".@AlboMP promised to end @ScottMorrisonMPs Govts obsessive secrecy. But [--] months later @AustralianLabor is trying to defend their woeful transparency failures by saying theyre not quite as bad as their predecessors. #SNAFU #auspol"
X Link 2023-09-03T20:43Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
".@PeterDutton_MP has accused @AlboMP of being a bit too close to @Qantas CEO Alan Joyce. Of course hed know more if the @LiberalAus party hadnt voted against @JacquiLambies Senate motion requiring the PM and ministers to disclosure who they meet with. #auspol #transparency"
X Link 2023-09-03T22:02Z 38.5K followers, 10.5K engagements
"#transparency is needed around @AlboMP and @CatherineKingMPs decision to stop extra Qatar flights to Australia especially noting @Qantas price gouging and market misconduct. Hopefully the Senate will gain access to the reasons but if it cant my #FOI should help. #auspol"
X Link 2023-09-03T22:30Z 38.5K followers, 12.5K engagements
"As our submarine industry deals with cancelled contracts their US counterparts are laughing all the way to the bank. Congress is setting up a special account for @AlboMP to deposit billions for use in enhancing their industrial base. 1/2 #auspol #AUKUS"
X Link 2023-09-04T23:09Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The Virginia class sub deal brokered by @AlboMP is akin to buying a 2nd hand Audi at the marked price and then being told by the dealer to also make a large contribution to production line upgrades at Ingolstadt and servicing centres upgrades in Bavaria. 🤦♂#AUKUS #auspol"
X Link 2023-09-04T23:31Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements
"With @Qantas having engaged in all manner of market misconduct new CEO Vanessa Hudson could do the airline a huge service and @AlboMP a big favour by promptly revoking the inappropriate Chairmans Lounge invitation Alan Joyce gave to the PMs son. #auspol"
X Link 2023-09-05T20:31Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"When Senator @DavidPocock questions officials at the newly established Senate inquiry into Darwins Middle Arm development he can ask them all about the Govts secret commercial interest and commercial plans in this gas export enabling project. #auspol #FOI #ClimateActionNow"
X Link 2023-09-05T21:00Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Defence officials to be held accountable in relation to a procurement project That would be a welcomed first. #auspol"
X Link 2023-09-05T21:29Z 38.5K followers, [----] engagements
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