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Jacqui Lambie @jacquilambie.bsky.social · 1d

They promised transparency.
They delivered secrecy.
Now they’re coming for your right to know.
Fight for our Freedom to Know.
Because it’s our money and our right to see where it goes. Find out more - lambienetwork.com.au/pages/foi
#FreedomToKnow #Transparency #AusPol #JacquiLambie #FOI

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Jacqui Lambie @jacquilambie.bsky.social · 21d

Premier Rockliff has already said he is pushing ahead with the AFL blackmail stadium - Jeremy doesn't like experts! He didn't listen to Saul Eslake, he didn't listen to Dr Nicholas Gruen and he's not listening to the Tasmanian Planning Council. #politas #aflstadium

Hobart stadium shouldn't proceed, planning commission recommends

The proposed Macquarie Point AFL stadium in Hobart should not proceed, a long-awaited assessment from the Tasmanian Planning Commission recommends.

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 24d

#FOI costs have doubled over the past decade, not because of more requests, but because the Govt’s culture of secrecy scares sole decision making. Every man, woman & dog in Govt is consulted just in case someone might object to disclosure.

#MountainsOutOfMolehills #YouPay #auspol

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · Sep 8

I fought Scott Morrison on National Cabinet secrecy during the COVID pandemic. I won that fight because his secrecy declaration was inconsistent with the law. @albomp.bsky.social is smarter than Morrison - he’s trying to expand Cabinet secrecy by changing the law. #auspol

Albo's dangerous expansion of Cabinet secrecy - Michael West

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed modifications of Freedom of Information laws are a huge secrecy grab and undermine democracy

michaelwest.com.au

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · Sep 7

Scott Morrison treated transparency like it was some kind of communicable disease. Being a less transparent government than his would achieve the impossible. Yet that’s what @AlboMP is trying to do with his new #FOI amendment bill. Essential listening👇. #auspol

WATCH NOW! Senator Jacqui Lambie HUMILIATES Anthony Albanese Over FOI Request Overhaul

YouTube video by Australian Report

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · Sep 3

In 2008 High Court Justice Kirby referred to the greater openness and transparency that the FOI Act provided citizens as “revolutionary”. The Govt just tabled a Bill in the Parliament that is nothing short of an @albomp.bsky.social counter-revolution. #auspol michaelwest.com.au/foi-amendmen...

FOI amendment bill. A transparency counter-revolution. - Michael West

The biggest ever assault on government transparency has been launched by Labor's tabling of the FOI Amendment Bill 2025.

michaelwest.com.au

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · Sep 1

1) FOI oxymoron: Fearless advice that the author fears more than one person will see! 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

2) FOI charges quid quo pro: Happy to pay a fee provided I get a penalty payment for each access refusal decision I get overturned on appeal. 💰👏

#FOI #auspol

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Tribunal hearing resumes today, although I’m not allowed in to hear/rebut the Govt’s arguments on why they think the Information Commissioner was wrong to grant access to documents about a history book on ADF operations in Timor 25 years ago. #FOI #CensoredHistory #auspol

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Jacqui Lambie @jacquilambie.bsky.social · Sep 2

What an absolute disgrace! This government promised to be transparent - what a joke! #Transparency #FOI

Labor plans to make it harder to access government information

A new proposal would introduce a fee for Freedom of Information requests and tighten the rules around the release of documents related to government deliberations.

www.abc.net.au

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Jacqui Lambie @jacquilambie.bsky.social · Aug 22

If our government cares about Palestinian children they will get on the phone to France, Canada and the UK and whip up support so that this resolution can pass the UN in September. When children are starving to death there is no time to waste, we need to act now! #auspol

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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · Aug 21

Bloody hell

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‘Russia is targeting us deliberately’: how attacks on maternity hospitals fuelled a birth-rate crisis in Ukraine

The Guardian has visited three frontline hospitals to hear from women who say they have been left fearful of childbirth after more than 80 attacks on maternity units since Russia’s full-scale invasion

www.theguardian.com

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Jacqui Lambie @jacquilambie.bsky.social · Aug 18

If a whistleblower goes to the C'wealth Ombudsman about their 'agency' that is the dept they work in - 'as a general rule' the Ombudsman refers it back to the agency' YES SERIOUSLY! #Whistleblowers #WhistleblowerProtection

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · Aug 3

A lot happened last week on the #AUKUS front. It really was a ‘shocker’ for proponents of the massive nuclear submarine shemozzle, but a happy state of self-delusion persists at the highest levels of our Government. 👇Sit down before you read this👇. #auspol

AUKUS delusions. More rivets pop in submarine drama - Michael West

Announcing sub-deal with the UK, resisting calls for a review, ignoring US admiral, building houses for US military, AUKUS shocker.

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · Aug 3

In Senator Lambie v Minister @tonyburkemp.bsky.social (re: content quotas), Burke has failed to comply with a mandatory law that requires him to hand over ALL docs relevant to the dispute. Instead he’s first asking foreign media companies if they’re OK with him complying. 👈👮‍♂️🚔 #FOI #auspol

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · Jun 1

It’s an old saying - ‘follow the money’. Here’s a post election peek at the $93.5M in public money that’ll be paid to political parties/candidates for votes they got. Some parties that knew they couldn’t win seats will be paid millions. #harvesting #auspol

Taxpayers to pay Pauline Hanson's PHON $3m for no seats - Michael West

Taxpayers will pay Pauline Hanson’s One Nation $2.98M for her not to win a single seat in the House of Representatives election.

michaelwest.com.au

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · May 13

It’s time to cap the “out of control” salaries paid to Vice Chancellors at Australian universities.

Australia’s Vice Chancellors are among the highest paid in the world, at a time when the institutions they oversee are plummeting down international rankings.

New analysis:

"Out of control" Vice-Chancellor pay must be reined in - submission. - The Australia Institute

It's time to cap the "out of control" salaries paid to Vice Chancellors at Australian universities, according to new analysis by The Australia Institute.

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Jacqui Lambie @jacquilambie.bsky.social · Apr 29

Our Film & TV Industry is on it's knees - meanwhile the US streamers are making money hand over fist - luckily @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social is on the case!!! #auspol

Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · Apr 28

@albomp.bsky.social’s Govt has failed to deliver on Australian drama content quotas. @tonyburkemp.bsky.social is blocking access to his secret dealings with media giants. @jacquilambie.bsky.social and I will get to the bottom of this. We're taking the #FOI fight to the next level. #auspol

Dithering over local TV content plays into hands of global streamers - Michael West

A shroud of secrecy surrounds negotiations between the Labor Government and media companies about locally produced drama.

michaelwest.com.au

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · Apr 28

A fish rots from the head. Grossly overpaid Vice Chancellors with million dollar salaries aren't going to lead the changes needed to return our universities to a public education ethos. I've been working with Jacqui Lambie to force debate on this. 2/2 #auspol

Senator Lambie’s cunning plan for VC pay

What she wants? Senator for Tasmania Jacqui Lambie wants to “end the excessive remuneration paid to the vice chancellors....

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · Apr 23

Corruption flourishes in the dark. The ALP/LNP duopoly don’t want officials blowing the whistle on wrong doing. Only voting for independents and progressive minor parties will ensure there’s enough pressure on government to stand up a Whistleblower Protection Authority. #auspol

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Jacqui Lambie @jacquilambie.bsky.social · Apr 17

If Labor & the Liberal cared about fixing the housing crisis - they would fix negative gearing - @davidpocock.bsky.social & I asked the PBO to look at solutions that would protect existing arrangements but cap neg gearing - they won't even talk about - because they haven't got any.... #ausvotes

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · Apr 14

I won the #FOI transparency fight … or so I thought. The Govt appealed and is now using a taxpayer funded ‘silk’ to wrap layers and layers of secrecy around their legal arguments on why we can’t know the truth of what happened in Timor back in 1999/2000. #censorship #auspol

What is the War Memorial so desperate to hide? - Michael West

The War Memorial doesn’t want us to see the full history of Australian operations in East Timor, with even more secrecy to come.

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · Apr 11

Another report pointing to the prospect @albomp.bsky.social #AUKUS nuclear sub deal will unravel. Australia's strategic interests and USA's America First impulses are rapidly diverging. We need to end this folly before more billions are flushed away. #auspol

AUKUS Nuclear Submarine Sale Under Scrutiny as Trump Tariffs Rattle Australia

The sale of nuclear-powered submarines to Australia under the AUKUS treaty faces new doubts as U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs take hold, and amid concern in Washington that providing the subs t...

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Jacqui Lambie @jacquilambie.bsky.social · Apr 11

Are you kidding me?Scots College in Sydney has finished its $60M 'student centre/library (I thought it was Hogwarts)' - this school has received millions in taxpayer funds over the last ten years - time we funnelled more of that money into public education for the kids who needs it!! #auspol

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Jacqui Lambie @jacquilambie.bsky.social · Apr 10

PBO modelling Sen Pocock & I commissioned in April '24 shows that reforms to neg gearing could boost housing affordability rates of home ownership & deliver $16B savings to the Budget over a decade. Fixing negative gearing won't fix the housing problem but it would be a bloody good start! #auspol

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · Apr 10

Wild instability in Washington leaves no confidence Australia can rely on the USA. We need a no-holds-barred Senate inquiry into #AUKUS, #ANZUS and #Trump's trade war. We need to face up to some big truths and navigate a new independent course. #auspol 1/2

'Put Australia first': Lambie plans Senate probe into US relations, AUKUS

Subs deal now looks like a huge mistake, Tassie Senator says.

www.theadvocate.com.au

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