Rex Patrick
@mrrexpatrick.bsky.social
Transparency Warrior, small business owner, former Independent Senator for SA and former submariner.
Topic: Ambulance Ramping. Status: Super Sensitive!
Here’s the SA Govt admitting that when a brief is sensitive they engage in the ‘Hollowmen practice’ - the brief is placed on a trolly and wheeled through the Cabinet room so the public never gets to 👀 it. #AbuseOfProcess #saparli
Here’s the SA Govt admitting that when a brief is sensitive they engage in the ‘Hollowmen practice’ - the brief is placed on a trolly and wheeled through the Cabinet room so the public never gets to 👀 it. #AbuseOfProcess #saparli
January 13, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Topic: Ambulance Ramping. Status: Super Sensitive!
Here’s the SA Govt admitting that when a brief is sensitive they engage in the ‘Hollowmen practice’ - the brief is placed on a trolly and wheeled through the Cabinet room so the public never gets to 👀 it. #AbuseOfProcess #saparli
Here’s the SA Govt admitting that when a brief is sensitive they engage in the ‘Hollowmen practice’ - the brief is placed on a trolly and wheeled through the Cabinet room so the public never gets to 👀 it. #AbuseOfProcess #saparli
Less than 4 weeks from an ART #transparency hearing @AlboMP’s Govt have realised its #FOI secrecy claims are unsustainable. At ten$ of thousand$ in legal costs to the taxpayer they’ve now offered to release a large amount of new #AUKUS waste material info (sample👇in orange). #auspol
January 12, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Less than 4 weeks from an ART #transparency hearing @AlboMP’s Govt have realised its #FOI secrecy claims are unsustainable. At ten$ of thousand$ in legal costs to the taxpayer they’ve now offered to release a large amount of new #AUKUS waste material info (sample👇in orange). #auspol
When you combine Admirals (proposers) who only have an eye for toys and Cabinet ministers (approvers) who have no training in project risk, disaster will ensue - not personally for the Admirals or Cabinet Ministers, rather for the taxpayers and national security🤦♂️. #AUKUS #auspol
January 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
While it’s so very frustrating to see the Govt resisting transparency on where they intend to process then bury #AUKUS radioactive waste, at least I get to fight their secrecy from a serene location.
Shoalhaven River, South Coast, New South Wales. #WorkFromRoam
Shoalhaven River, South Coast, New South Wales. #WorkFromRoam
January 11, 2026 at 2:06 AM
While it’s so very frustrating to see the Govt resisting transparency on where they intend to process then bury #AUKUS radioactive waste, at least I get to fight their secrecy from a serene location.
Shoalhaven River, South Coast, New South Wales. #WorkFromRoam
Shoalhaven River, South Coast, New South Wales. #WorkFromRoam
Topic: Where to bury #AUKUS high level radioactive waste?
The Govt submits to the Admin Review Tribunal that the ability for officials to deal with this sort of policy issue in secret “is worth more to the public than being informed” about some of their thoughts.🤷♂️ #FOI #auspol
The Govt submits to the Admin Review Tribunal that the ability for officials to deal with this sort of policy issue in secret “is worth more to the public than being informed” about some of their thoughts.🤷♂️ #FOI #auspol
January 11, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Same office visitor today, but better photography. #WorkFromRoam
January 9, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Same office visitor today, but better photography. #WorkFromRoam
Generosity to the tune of $10B for US and UK shipyards, $368B for an opulent expeditionary defence capability, but austerity when it comes to buying back guns to keep Australians safe at home 🤷♂️. #SkewedPriorities #AUKUS #auspol
January 9, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Generosity to the tune of $10B for US and UK shipyards, $368B for an opulent expeditionary defence capability, but austerity when it comes to buying back guns to keep Australians safe at home 🤷♂️. #SkewedPriorities #AUKUS #auspol
Yesterday’s visitor to the office. #WorkFromRoam
January 8, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Yesterday’s visitor to the office. #WorkFromRoam
Yesterday’s visitor to the office. #WorkFromRoam
January 7, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Yesterday’s visitor to the office. #WorkFromRoam
OMG - they took the kid’s iPads and iPhones away!
All they were left with were some rocks, a deep river, some developing (and supervised) risk assessment skills and a level of courage. It was like being back in the 1970’s.
Shoalhaven River, South Coast, New South Wales.
All they were left with were some rocks, a deep river, some developing (and supervised) risk assessment skills and a level of courage. It was like being back in the 1970’s.
Shoalhaven River, South Coast, New South Wales.
January 7, 2026 at 7:09 AM
OMG - they took the kid’s iPads and iPhones away!
All they were left with were some rocks, a deep river, some developing (and supervised) risk assessment skills and a level of courage. It was like being back in the 1970’s.
Shoalhaven River, South Coast, New South Wales.
All they were left with were some rocks, a deep river, some developing (and supervised) risk assessment skills and a level of courage. It was like being back in the 1970’s.
Shoalhaven River, South Coast, New South Wales.
#WorkFromRoam plan for the day.
Coffee. Read the News. #FOI request. River swim. FOI submission. Wombat watching. Photography. Continue FOI submission. River swim. Irish coffee. Read (The Constitution of NSW: Anne Twomey). Sleep.
Coffee. Read the News. #FOI request. River swim. FOI submission. Wombat watching. Photography. Continue FOI submission. River swim. Irish coffee. Read (The Constitution of NSW: Anne Twomey). Sleep.
January 6, 2026 at 8:35 PM
#WorkFromRoam plan for the day.
Coffee. Read the News. #FOI request. River swim. FOI submission. Wombat watching. Photography. Continue FOI submission. River swim. Irish coffee. Read (The Constitution of NSW: Anne Twomey). Sleep.
Coffee. Read the News. #FOI request. River swim. FOI submission. Wombat watching. Photography. Continue FOI submission. River swim. Irish coffee. Read (The Constitution of NSW: Anne Twomey). Sleep.
Some odds and sods #FOI work today, along with an ABC pre-record, and all from my new office location next to the Shoalhaven River, South Coast, New South Wales. #WorkFromRoam
January 6, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Some odds and sods #FOI work today, along with an ABC pre-record, and all from my new office location next to the Shoalhaven River, South Coast, New South Wales. #WorkFromRoam
It’s bizzare that the Chief Executive of the SA Department for Energy and Mining has not received any briefs on the stabilisation of the Whyalla Steelworks. It’s extraordinary that they ‘ordered’ me not to publish 👇this letter👇. #saparli
December 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It’s bizzare that the Chief Executive of the SA Department for Energy and Mining has not received any briefs on the stabilisation of the Whyalla Steelworks. It’s extraordinary that they ‘ordered’ me not to publish 👇this letter👇. #saparli
The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet is using the awful events at Bondi to justify delaying a response to a gambling related #FOI. Really? FOI officials and gaming policy advisors are on the front line of the nation’s terrorism response? Or just shabby opportunism? #auspol
December 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Richard Marles just loves his private jets - so befitting a man of his importance. After a secrecy blanket was wrapped over these taxpayer funded flights, he’s been free to indulge with no scrutiny. Except the ‘security risk’ excuse has failed in the face of #FOI. #auspol
December 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
When your child’s school is lacking essential resources or you’re stuck in a hospital waiting room, think of our ‘entitled’ pollies jetting about in taxpayer funded RAAF 737s, instead of flying commercial. #auspol
December 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
When your child’s school is lacking essential resources or you’re stuck in a hospital waiting room, think of our ‘entitled’ pollies jetting about in taxpayer funded RAAF 737s, instead of flying commercial. #auspol
This morning’s #WorkFromRoam office. West Wyalong, northern Riverina region of NSW, ‘Rise and Grind’ coffee.
December 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This morning’s #WorkFromRoam office. West Wyalong, northern Riverina region of NSW, ‘Rise and Grind’ coffee.
Hey @jimchalmers.bsky.social. Why not focus on #AUKUS spending and switch away from an unaffordable ‘best’ submarine capability that won’t be delivered to an affordable ‘adequate’ submarine capability that will be delivered? #auspol
December 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Hey @jimchalmers.bsky.social. Why not focus on #AUKUS spending and switch away from an unaffordable ‘best’ submarine capability that won’t be delivered to an affordable ‘adequate’ submarine capability that will be delivered? #auspol
Time of reflection.
Sun-up, Murray River, Renmark, South Australia.
Sun-up, Murray River, Renmark, South Australia.
December 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Time of reflection.
Sun-up, Murray River, Renmark, South Australia.
Sun-up, Murray River, Renmark, South Australia.
In the same week the US released a new National Security Strategy which declared “the affairs of other countries are our concern only if their activities directly threaten our interests”, @RichardMarlesMP declared “full steam ahead” on #AUKUS 🤷♂️🤦♂️. #juxtaposition #auspol
December 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In the same week the US released a new National Security Strategy which declared “the affairs of other countries are our concern only if their activities directly threaten our interests”, @RichardMarlesMP declared “full steam ahead” on #AUKUS 🤷♂️🤦♂️. #juxtaposition #auspol
60,000 Australian Fly-In-Fly-Out workers might look at politicians’ family reunion entitlements and wonder. So too might taxpayers. 1/2 #auspol
December 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
60,000 Australian Fly-In-Fly-Out workers might look at politicians’ family reunion entitlements and wonder. So too might taxpayers. 1/2 #auspol
