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Independent senator Rex Patrick is challenging government’s refusal to release cabinet’s documents under FoI laws

Pauline Hanson said the government’s plans to roll back responsible lending laws would leave Australians vulnerable to predatory banks.

There is very little Australia alone can do to respond to China’s actions which is why it needs to operate multi-laterally with its allies to respond, according to Independent Senator Rex Patrick. “There’s very little that Australia can do,” he said. “In all responses to China we need to work multi-laterally, we need to work with our friends in Asia, the United States, in Europe to respond to what’s happening – and there is some hope that is starting to happen.”

Rex Patrick and PM Fight Over Secrecy Around COVID-19 Medical Advice Independent Senator Rex Patrick has challenged the Morrison government in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal over its alleged secrecy around national cabinet decisions on the COVID-19 response. Patrick believes that the National Cabinet is not properly constituted and that the Prime Minister is “unilaterally and unlawfully wrapping a secrecy blanket” around the government’s COVID-19 response. Currently, the National Cab...

First published on Wed 12 May 2021 03.37 EDT Scott Morrison has defended the Liberal MP Andrew Laming over his decision not to relinquish a lucrative parliamentary role and praised him for doing “many good things” while in parliament. Laming has returned from personal leave after undertaking counselling and empathy training prompted by a string of complaints alleging online abuse against his own constituents, but now claims he never promised to permanently resign from his extra parliamentar...

Offshore oil and gas producers are fighting a Morrison government decision to impose a levy on the entire industry to fund a potential $1bn remediation of a floating rig and associated fields in the Timor Sea formerly operated by Woodside Petroleum. Other options put forward by the industry’s peak body, the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (Appea), include taxpayers footing the bill by using unspent petroleum resource...

Senator Rex Patrick (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch) Since when are Australian taxpayers expected to pay for a government contractor’s own cover-up? That’s what’s happening in a legal battle between independent Senator Rex Patrick and the company behind the government’s disastrous $90 billion contract to build Australia’s new submarine fleet, Naval Group. Defence revealed last week that it was paying Naval Group’s legal fees in a fight over how much the contract is actually worth. This mea...

Advertisement The oil and gas industry says the federal government is risking jobs and the economy by waging a levy on the industry to cover the estimated $250 million cost of decommissioning an offshore production vessel that fell into public ownership. The federal government was forced to take ownership of the Northern Endeavour production vessel, permanently moored 550 kilometres offshore from Darwin in the Timor Sea. Resources Minister Keith Pitt will impose a levy on the oil and gas indust...

MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 1:40 pm on May 10, 2021 | 9 comments French company Naval Group is trying to keep secret the original price it quoted for Australia’s future submarine project, which is purported to cost around $90 billion. The Defence Department has confirmed it is paying Naval Group’s legal bills to help conceal its original price, a move that South Australian Senator Rex Patrick has described as “outrageous”. The Australian Information Commissioner, Ang...

Federal budget will be hard for Labor to counter10/05/2021|6min Independent Senator Rex Patrick says it will be hard for Labor to counter the government’s budget because it will feature many social issues. The aged care sector is set to receive a transformational $18 billion package in tomorrow nights federal budget. The major cash boost responds to the damning findings of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and will be used to address the needs of the distressed sector. �...