KEY PRIORITIES

FOR ME ARE

Ease the cost of living

Remove corruption & dishonesty in politics

Fight for the underdog

Putting Australia first, always

A Future Built Here. A Future We Own

Our leaders have lost their way. We should be a rich country, but we aren’t. Australia used to make what we need—from cars to medical
equipment. Now we rely on imports. For too long, governments have relied on farmers exporting food and mines supplying raw materials for foreign processing. It’s time to bring back domestic manufacturing, rebuild essential industries, grow our defence base, incentivise onshore development, invest in skills, and ensure jobs follow. It’s time to Make Australia Make Again.

Affordable Housing

They’ve made the promise. We’ll make sure they keep it. House prices are unaffordable, especially for first-time buyers. The major
parties are now promising affordable housing—but where was the urgency over the last 12 years? We should prevent foreign nationals
from buying houses in Australia for three years to ease demand. To fix the housing crisis, we need more houses—more land, more trades,
more supplies. We’ll cut government processes and red tape. That’s how we fix the problem.

Cheaper Groceries

Grocery prices are through the roof. Families are struggling. The Coles-Woolies duopoly is too powerful, using their dominance to squeeze farmers and keep prices high. We need divestiture laws so courts can break up companies engaging in cartel behaviour. It’s time for action.

Cheaper Electricity

South Australians deserve affordable, reliable power. Electricity prices follow gas prices, and Australia’s gas gets shipped overseas so multinationals profit at our expense. This isn’t about “drill baby drill”—it’s about managing what we’ve got. We need a national gas reservation policy so Australians benefit from our gas. Local consumers must get gas first, and at lower prices than exports.

Transparency, Accountability and Integrity

Without transparency, there’s no accountability—something governments like and we hate. Government works for the people,
who deserve to know what’s being done and what’s being spent. Otherwise, we get waste—or worse: Robodebt, Sports Rorts, Car Park Rorts. We must cut waste, pointless projects, and ‘fact-finding’ junkets. But not undertake arbitrary public service cuts just for election pitches. Rex is a champion of freedom of information, with experience from the Senate to the High Court. He’ll fight government secrecy.

Protecting our Lived Environment

The Murray is South Australia’s lifeblood, but being at the end of the river means we suffer from upstream decisions. We need a healthy
Murray and a sustainable water supply for people, agriculture, industry, and the environment. Another example, Adelaide’s Parklands are a unique asset, but they’re slowly being lost to government-led development, seen as ‘free’ land. They must be protected from permanent development, and we’ll push to finalise their heritage listing.

Who’s Rex Patrick?

Rex is a veteran of the Navy and the Senate. He left Whyalla at 16 to join the Royal Australian Navy, serving 11 years in submarines.
After navy he worked in defence as a project manager, then ran his own sonar training business, with some journalism on the side.
His outspokenness brought him to Canberra, where he became an adviser and later a Senator from 2017, serving in the 46th and 47th parliaments. Rex championed protecting the Murray-Darling, saving 700 submarine jobs, exposing secrecy, promoting manufacturing, defending whistleblowers, standing up for regional Australia, stopping offshore drilling, and tackling cost-of-living pressures.

He’s ready to return to the Senate—to clean up Canberra and restore transparency, integrity, and accountability.