The hack coincided with an attack on … Please take a minute to stand up for freedom, democracy and human rights and sign this petition. Senator Rex Patrick says the French company blocked his FOI request for documents on the project. We must take a strong stand against the well documented abuse of hundreds of thousands of Uyghur people in Xinjiang. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP Christopher Knaus 16 August 2020. Former RAN submariner and project manager. In a spiralling day of claim and counter-claim on Tuesday Senator Rex Patrick accused the ... out the inaccuracies in the Senator's press release," he said. The Senate crossbench, the Greens and Labor have combined to pass a series of rare motions forcing the Government controlled Senate committee to considerably extend the time allocated for the inquiry into the court merger bills.. From originally allocating just three weeks for submissions to be … Centre Alliance senator Rex Patrick said he received a "really unusual" call from Mr Pezzullo late last week, after publicly suggesting the national security tsar hated media scrutiny. "I put to you that all the modelling your department does is done on the public coin and for public purpose, and the public has a right to see what it is that your department has done. Senator Rex Patrick wants to know how much the new submarine will cost to build. Some politicians are concerned the change allows Frydenberg to exempt Facebook or Google from the new laws even if they do not strike deals with all media companies. 6 December 2019. It would be a human rights disgrace if Australia, under our free trade agreement with China, turned a blind eye to profiteering from what amounts to slave labour. 1 See Senator Rex Patrick, 'Australian Olympic Committee Should Be Subject To New Foreign Relations Laws' (Media Release, 9 October 2020, available at He was appointed to the Senate to fill a casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Nick Xenophon. Media Releases. The Government must ban the importation of products from Xinjiang and other parts of China that are produced in whole or part by forced labour. The Government must ban the importation of products from Xinjiang and other parts of China that are produced in whole or part by forced labour.The systematic oppression of the Uyghur people by the Chinese Government is undeniable, and the exploitation of detained Uyghurs as a captive labour force is clear. "I put to you that all the modelling your department does is done on the public coin and for public purpose, and the public has a right to see what it is that your department has done. Policy must be before politics: Senate motion extending court reform submission date applauded 12 September 2018 . Independent senator Rex Patrick says the language in Defence's latest statement appears unprecedented Privately, national security figures believe the Chinese Government is the main culprit The systematic oppression of the Uyghur people by the Chinese Government is undeniable, and the exploitation of detained Uyghurs as a captive labour force is clear. ... MEDIA RELEASES; Authorised by R. Patrick, Level 2, 31 Ebenezer Place Adelaide SA 5000. "Dr Kennedy hinted a cabinet-in-confidence claim would be used. "It's an attempt to shut down that third arm," he said. Independent Senator for South Australia. The Senate today took the rare step of passing a motion requiring the committee inquiry into the family court merger bills to delay its closing date for submissions by a further two months – a move praised by the Law Council.. The Prime Minister’s Media Release explained: By any measure, National Cabinet has proven to be a much more effective body for taking decisions in the national interest than the COAG structure. CANBERRA: Federal Senator for South Australia, Rex Patrick has added his backing to the Joint Justice Initiative of the Armenian-Australian, Assyrian-Australian and Greek-Australian communities calling for Australian recognition of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides. I urge the Senate to agree that Australia must ban products produced by Uyghur forced labour. ", Authorised by R. Patrick, Level 2, 31 Ebenezer Place Adelaide SA 5000. Rex Lyall Patrick (born 8 May 1967) is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since November 2017. More than one million people have been rounded up and put in massive internment camps across Xinjiang. ", "If there wasn’t enough reason last Thursday, there’s 60 billion more reasons now. 2,385 talking about this. He created the Rex Patrick Team party in January 2021 and sits in parliament as its only member. Senator Rex Patrick says there are safety fears for Australian competitors and media who plan to attend There is a motion before the Senate about Australia's involvement in the Games Back to media releases. Senator Ryan has refused to release the report of the hack this year, saying he could not give detail in public. https://www.facebook.com/Senator-Rex-Patrick-193047494589008 Senator Patrick said he had lodged a freedom-of-information (FOI) request seeking access to correspondence from the time of the last state election in 2018 to today and was “surprised” there had been only a few pieces of correspondence between Minister for Energy and Mining Dan van Holst Pellekaan and the federal government. Senator Rex Patrick says government wants to avoid a precedent that would make it easier to access diaries of senior officials ... PM’s department tries to block release … ... this month found in favour of Senator Patrick, ordering the department to release … Monday, 15 June 2020. 4,616 talking about this. Extreme_Espionage_Threat. “The motion to establish the Senate Select Committee into Tobacco Harm Reduction received widespread support, from Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party, Senator Rex Patrick to the Australian Labor Party.” “Every year 20,000 Australians die from tobacco-related illness. Mass surveillance, restrictions on free movement, and widespread persecution of the Uyghur people have been confirmed beyond doubt. MEDIA RELEASE. To the Honourable President and members of the Senate in Parliament assembled: I support Senator Rex Patrick’s petition to ban products produced by Uyghur forced labour, I urge the Senate to agree that Australia must ban products produced by Uyghur forced labour, Authorised by R. Patrick, Level 2, 31 Ebenezer Place Adelaide SA 5000, Yes, Australia must ban products made by Uyghur forced labour. Authorised by R. Patrick, Adelaide SA 5000 Before entering politics, Patrick was a businessman and senior b… South Australian Senator Rex Patrick has expressed alarm in relation to the ‘extreme’ espionage threat to vital Defence industries in South Australia and has called for the closure of the Chinese Consulate-General in Adelaide. "Treasury modelling may well have caused Government to suffer from a bad case of confirmation bias," said Senator Patrick.Senator Patrick pressed Treasury Secretary Dr Kennedy last Thursday for the modelling to be released to the Senate’s COVID-19 oversight committee. Centre Alliance Senator for South Australia. I think it is disrespectful for the Treasury to withhold that information from the public. Senator Rex Patrick lashes out at ‘freedom of information abuse at its worst’ after government spent almost two years trying to stop release of report criticising Thales fleet purchase CANBERRA: Federal Senator for South Australia, Rex Patrick has added his backing to the Joint Justice Initiative of the Armenian-Australian, Assyrian-Australian and Greek-Australian communities calling for Australian recognition of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides. Senator Rex Patrick November 30 at 12:51 PM SAVE THE AUDITOR-GENERAL TO KEEP THE BASTARDS HONEST Last night in ... the Senate I moved an amendment to a Budget bill to restore proper funding to the Auditor-General, to allow him to continue to carry out at least 48 performance audits a year. Joint Statutory: Public Accounts and Audit from 12.2.18. Senator Rex Patrick warns the information commissioner’s office that reviews government FOI decisions will soon be swamped by a massive workload. Senator Rex Patrick has called on Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to immediately release Treasury JobKeeper modelling after the Government committed the biggest accounting error in Australia’s public administration history. The February 2020 launch of the Joint Justice Initiative at Australia's Parliament House … Senator Patrick pressed Treasury Secretary Dr Kennedy last Thursday for the modelling to be released to the Senate’s COVID-19 oversight committee. "Media reform is always complex with issues like audience reach, cross media make-up, competition and foreign investment playing a part, and so needs to be carefully considered," Senator Patrick … Media. "I think most Australians are getting sick and tired of the Government sprinkling ‘Cabinet fairy dust’ on just about anything that might prove embarrassing to Government," said Senator Patrick.In parallel to the ongoing Senate Committee’s processes to get access to the modelling data, I have requested it under Freedom of Information laws and, unusually, called in advance for the decision maker to evidence any cabinet-in-confidence claim (see FOI request here).