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What $600,000 of your money buys when the Commonwealth doesn’t want you to read something Rex Patrick is a former Senator. Self-styled “Transparency Warrior.” Since April 2023, he has been pursuing Freedom of Information requests for Snowy Hydro’s Snowy 2.0 project performance reports and the Corporate Plan Update that was used to justify the cost doubling from $6 billion to $12 billion. Snowy Hydro and the Commonwealth have spent over $600,000 of public money fighting him. The figure was disclosed to the Senate through Senator Jacqui Lambie’s questioning. The breakdown: The Administrative Review Tribunal proceedings alone cost $507,506. The Commonwealth’s lawyers, the Australian Government Solicitor, cost under $100,000. Snowy Hydro’s lawyers, King & Wood Mallesons, cost approximately $400,000. Same fight, same documents, very different cost. Patrick’s FOI fight has moved through stages, each one cost money. FOI request to Minister Bowen, April 2023. Refused. Administrative Review Tribunal hearing. Three days of contested hearing. Eight lawyers and two barristers on the agency side. Patrick lost in a decision by Deputy President Britton-Jones that ruled Snowy Hydro’s project performance reports are not within FOI reach. Federal Court appeal. Currently live as at April 2026. Snowy Hydro was joined as a party to the proceedings in December 2025. Patrick estimates this stage may cost another $500,000 in legal fees, taking total spend toward $1 million. What the $600,000 is buying: Documents Patrick sought include the monthly Earned Value Project Management reports that Snowy Hydro provides to its shareholder ministers (Bowen and Gallagher), and the Corporate Plan Update used to justify the doubling of the project cost from $6 billion to $12 billion in August 2023. In other words: the reports that would have told the public, in real time, whether Snowy 2.0 was on time and on budget and the document that argued for adding $6 billion of taxpayer exposure. The structural point: Snowy Hydro is a Commonwealth company. Funded by taxpayer equity. The Commonwealth is the sole shareholder. The Ministers (Chris Bowen and Katy Gallagher) have the standing under the GBE governance framework to require disclosure if they choose, Snowy Hydro is “obliged to surrender information (unfettered by any confidentiality obligations) requested by a shareholder minister.” They have not. Instead, the Commonwealth and SHL have spent over $600,000 of public money preventing one former Senator from showing taxpayers documents about a taxpayer-funded project. When Patrick first lodged the request in April 2023, the project blowout stood at $3.1 billion. As his appeal now progresses through the Federal Court, the project is reportedly at risk of exceeding $39 billion. Every dollar fighting Patrick is a dollar of your money used to keep you from seeing how your money is being spent. The figure grows every month the litigation continues. What’s your thoughts…? 🇦🇺 Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺 Sources: - Michael West Media, “Snowy 2.0 legal cost avalanche”: michaelwest.com.au/snowy-2-0-lega… - Michael West Media, “Snowy 2.0. A snow-job costing taxpayers twenty times its budget”: michaelwest.com.au/snowy-2-0-a-sn… - Michael West Media, “Snowy Hydro performance shrouded in secrecy. The three-step trick.”: michaelwest.com.au/snowy-hydro-pe… - Michael West Media, “Dangerous Tribunal decision paves way for Dutton to keep nuclear blow-outs secret”: michaelwest.com.au/art-tribunal-s… - Lawyerly, “Snowy Hydro joined to Rex Patrick’s Snowy 2.0 docs case” (December 2025): lawyerly.com.au/snowy-hydro-jo…

I read everywhere about the 'hard right' This the term used to describe people who are Islamosceptic - that is, people who are doubtful about the merits of a religion that demands child marriage, the beating of women, and death to all who oppose it Perhaps 'sensible right' would be a better description

@PoliBard @LyrebirdDream lol

@LyrebirdDream Didn't you die of starvation in 2024?

Climate change isn’t just an environmental issue. It’s a public health emergency. Experts appointed by the WHO are urging it to formally declare climate change as a global public health emergency. Meanwhile Australia’s still subsidising fossil fuels.👇🏽 lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-clima…

@Matt_Camenzuli I painted myself green and hung tomatoes from my ears....I am now a tomato plant

This is a peach. It must be allowed to sit with the peaches at the shop. If you don't agree, it will sue you in the Australian federal court. It will win.

"United against Misinformation" ? Everyone is entitled to change their position and admit their past mistakes and errors of judgement. Now that Hollie Hughes has joined One Nation — which strongly opposed the Morrison Government’s rollout of the COVID injections and rolling over on Net Zero — I trust she will offer a full and unreserved apology for her previous COVID stance and her support for Net Zero.

@Nick162879 @wingnutdk2661 What the fuck Nick you little bitch. WHo are you and where do you live, I'd love to pay a visit

@wingnutdk2661 What a pussy

Up at 2. Was rough yesterday my nephew took his own life.

I imagine feeling accepted was a huge part of the case for Jason Tickle. Wanting to be considered the same as women. Has it worked? No. He got one woman fined, but she doesn’t now magically think he’s a woman. None of us do. The case only exists as he’s a man. The case in itself is evidence that he’s male. He won the court case, but made himself loathed in the process. He highlighted glaring issues with legislation, left women without their rights and made Australia look utterly batshit. All in the name of acceptance. What an exercise in futility. Sall however has overwhelmingly won public opinion and on that basis laws will be changed, which is the real solution to this mess.

Wow , $924,000 for 3 months expenses. I worked for 40 years and never accumulated that much for my superannuation. Australians really are mugs, highest taxes in the world, and the politicians just piss it up against the wall.

Every Aussie needs to see this. Share share share

“Miss Grover left the court without making any comment. She later posted on social media saying she was “absolutely devastated” & that women were being discriminated against. … I also said, “we will all wake up tomorrow & men will still not be women.” An important point.

Anthony Albanese's quarterly expense report. I do this every quarter. He's slugged us $924,716. Almost a million.

REMEMBER THE LAST LABOR ABOLISHED NEGATIVE GEARING ? Back in 1985, when Jim Chalmers was 7 years old, Labor abolished negative gearing. And in markets where supply was tight, rents “hit the roof”. The Sydney Morning Herald on 14 March 1987 observed: “Investors [are] leaving the residential rental investment market because of a decreasing return on investment. The falling return is partly due to the introduction of a capital gains tax and removal of negative gearing.” (Source: “Sydney Rents Hit the Roof”, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 March 1987) Even the Prime Minister at the time, Bob Hawke was forced to admit the link between negative gearing changes and rents. The Sydney Morning Herald ran a front page article titled “PM: Rents too high – Negative gearing ban faces review”: “The Prime Minister promised yesterday a review of the crackdown on taxation concessions for investment in housing, seen by many as a principal reason for Sydney's rental crisis. Mr Hawke said he was willing to receive submissions on how the 1985 decision to abolish negative gearing could be modified without reducing its effectiveness as an anti-tax avoidance measure. ‘I acknowledge the particular problem in Sydney in relation to the rental market,’ he added.” (Source: “PM: Rents too high, Mike Steketee And Steve Burrell”, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 July 1987) The policy was such a disaster, that after two years Labor was forced to reverse it. And even Keating acknowledged that reinstating negative gearing would increase the supply of housing. “Tonight's decision restores the symmetry between investment in property and other assets such as shares or farms. It will enhance the attractiveness of investment in both commercial and residential rental property and have a beneficial effect on the supply of residential accommodation in particular.” (Source: Paul Keating as Treasurer, 1987 Budget Speech, House of Representatives, 15 September 1987) Yet today Albanese & Chalmers think they know better. But the law of leftistism hasn’t changed. Labor’s removal of negative gearing will end up exactly like last time, a complete disaster - harming the very people they claimed to be helping - and they will be forced into a humiliating reversal just as Paul Keating did in 1987

Australia knows who to blame for this debacle. #GillardIsAMonster

@ausvstheagenda lol, when you put it like that...hahaha

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has announced the ‘Nationalist Socialist Network’ will be declared a prohibited hate group from midnight tonight, 5 months after the Bondi terrorist attack and 1 week after he approved the return of women accused of ISIS links.

When One Nation win seats in the next Victorian parliament, we will relocate the new Daniel Andrews statue to a special Museum of Underwater Art in Antartica.

Dear @JuliaGillard - on behalf of Australian women and girls who deserve the right to their own spaces, the right to say no to males invading them, and the chance to play sport fairly and safely - you are a disgraceful, misogynistic, fraud. Today’s ruling is on you. For shame.

@SarsNQ @imdavo17 @TobiSkovron lol. what a dickhead. typical lefty who just spews crap. and then blocks and runs away hahahaha

@SarsNQ @imdavo17 @TobiSkovron haha, what? no shit retard. Typical lefty. Out with the abuse.. Clearly don't understand the argument. Go back to kindergarten baby.

Hey Jim & Albo, Keep your hands off my business. You weren’t there for the sleepless nights, the stress, the risk, or the moments where everything was on the line. I built this in the dark. You don’t get to show up at the finish line with your hand out. Not one cent. You didn’t build it. You didn’t back it. You’re not entitled to it. Get fucked.

@PaulineHansonOz What is a woman, is the dumbest question in history.

I’m disgusted at the decision that’s just been handed down by the Federal Court in the Tickle vs Giggle case. It flies in the face of biological reality, and strips rights from women. Women’s spaces are not being protected and are no longer safe. I will back Sall Grover in Parliament. One Nation is the only party which has tried to amend the Sex Discrimination Act to remove identity politics and reflect biological reality. I will continue with this effort to protect women’s rights in Australia.

Want to know what is happening in Australia right now. Here is the literal blueprint & policies that so many of you didn’t even bother to look at 🙄 And now Aussies act shocked that it is playing out before them. We have been warning you for years. Welcome to Communism Australia 🇦🇺 🥀☠️