Rex Patrick
Transparency Warrior, small business owner, former Independent Senator for SA and former submariner.
- The Dept of Enironment claim that you and I being able to read a Macquarie Harbour salmon farming reconsideration brief will somehow corrupt the Minister’s reconsideration decision. The ART has previously rejected this proposition. I’m challenging this undue secrecy. #MaugeanSkate #FOI #auspol
- A lot of artificial intelligence tools perform well, but ‘predictive AI’ (the use of statistical analysis & machine learning to forecast future events or behaviours) does NOT work for humans and should be outlawed for use in recruitment. #SnakeOil #auspol
- Unlike CEOs, departmental secretaries are not appointed by broad market competition, they don’t have to generate revenue for their ‘business’ and aren’t held to account for poor performance. Yet they’re on million dollar CEO salaries? Why? #auspol
- Canada sub proposal: 12 large Air Independent Propulsion subs with first delivery in 2032 for AUD$27B. Low US dependence. Australia #AUKUS sub scheme: 8 nuclear subs with (an unlikely) first delivery in 2035 for AUD$368B. Total US dependence. 🤦♂️ #auspol
- With Richard Marles staying in the Defence portfolio ‘it seems unlikely the Defence Dept will face any pressure to end the incompetence and, quite possibly, corruption that marks its management of major procurement processes.’ 👇 #auspol
- The Govt should never have sunk $1B into a US company to build a quantum computer in Brisbane. This project involves innovation investment that should have been directed at the local quantum computing sector. Invest local, learn local, grow local! #auspol
- Where nuclear subs will be based on Australia’s east coast is a ‘hot potato’ political issue. I can’t help but think that’s why my #FOI on east coast sub bases, due 15 March, was released on Sunday evening, 24 hours after the polls closed … 🤷♂️ #AUKUS #auspol
