Michael West

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.
Audit superhero Captain Can’tCount to the rescue

Audit superhero Captain Can’tCount to the rescue

“Which #AuditorProud superhero are you?” asks Australia's peak chartered accounting body today. “Are you an ...
BCA investigation: power of the business lobby in Australia

BCA investigation: power of the business lobby in Australia

This is the first in a series of investigations into Australia's most powerful business lobby groups. To begin, ...
Excusez-nous: French giant Sanofi takes Australia to the cleaners

Excusez-nous: French giant Sanofi takes Australia to the cleaners

French drug giant Sanofi is the textbook case of the tax-avoiding, corporate-welfare-loving multinational colossus ...
Foreigner workers, ABNs and the deregulation of labour market by stealth

Foreigner workers, ABNs and the deregulation of labour market by stealth

"The biggest failure of public administration since the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia in ...
Worst kept secret: CBA banker to head ASIC

Worst kept secret: CBA banker to head ASIC

It is the worse kept secret in the business world; that is the impending appointment of former Commonwealth Bank ...
Jevtovic: the cop behind the CBA sting

Jevtovic: the cop behind the CBA sting

Too big to fail, too arrogant to accept the law, the Commonwealth Bank would not have been prosecuted except for ...
Impunity for tycoon Taib in Australia’s money-laundering paradise

Impunity for tycoon Taib in Australia’s money-laundering paradise

Australia's status as a paradise for money launderers will be further entrenched in coming days as a Swiss ...
Did Ciobo instruct Efic to fund Adani?

Did Ciobo instruct Efic to fund Adani?

It finally came this week, just what we had expected, evidence of the Federal government's desperation to fund the ...
Tycoon Broker: $2 billion or 2 bob?

Tycoon Broker: $2 billion or 2 bob?

"Taylor Dow, director of Taylor Dow Property Group, which last year sold $2 billion of Australian property to ...
One man against the system: year 12 in Viscariello V Minters & Macks

One man against the system: year 12 in Viscariello V Minters & Macks

His companies are long dead and his assets long bled. But the tenacious small businessman, John Viscariello, has ...
Smoke & Mirrors: the systemic campaign of multinational tax secrecy

Smoke & Mirrors: the systemic campaign of multinational tax secrecy

Without a word of explanation, and barely legally if legally at all, dozens of multinational companies have ...
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