While the media points at ISIS Brides, migrants and other bogies, we unveil … The System.
Every time reform shows up it gets shot down by lobbyists and vested interests, the same people bankrolling the parties. Negative gearing is untouchable, wealth and resources taxes never get up, and ordinary Australians keep being told to cop it while multinationals rip out the profits.
Then there’s the ‘Shadow Government’, the government of consultants. PwC, KPMG, Deloitte and EY, embedded, advising, shaping, collecting fees, and walking away clean when it all goes wrong. The problem is the system.
Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.
