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.
Land titles office: another privatisation for the Caymans?

Land titles office: another privatisation for the Caymans?

Profits from the NSW land titles registry may soon be heading to the Cayman Islands to be controlled by one of the ...
Minxin Pei on China’s crony capitalism

Minxin Pei on China’s crony capitalism

Corruption in the post-Tiananmen era exhibits distinct characteristics not found in the 1980s, such as ...
John Keane on the media and post-truth

John Keane on the media and post-truth

Professor John Keane of Sydney University's Sydney Democracy Network delivers a lecture on post-truth, the ...
Closed-book on Facebook’s casebook

Closed-book on Facebook’s casebook

Facebook sooled its lawyers onto Sydney entrepreneur, John Maconochie, after Maconochie tried to set up a business ...
Tackle payment times: big response to small biz inquiry

Tackle payment times: big response to small biz inquiry

Hammurabi nailed it back in 1772 BC when he declared: “The first duty of government is to protect the powerless ...
Witch hunt: The Fin’s crusade to destroy CPA boss Alex Malley

Witch hunt: The Fin’s crusade to destroy CPA boss Alex Malley

The Australian Financial Review has been tirelessly battering Alex Malley, the head of CPA Australia, for two ...
Land titles: the folly of privatising an essential monopoly

Land titles: the folly of privatising an essential monopoly

Sensibly, the federal government abandoned plans to privatise the database of the corporate regulator just before ...
Land titles privatisation: winners and losers

Land titles privatisation: winners and losers

How superb is the plan by the NSW government to privatise the state's land titles office in order to fund the ...
The Cherry Blossom Uprising: Monitory Democracy in Korea

The Cherry Blossom Uprising: Monitory Democracy in Korea

Korea's "Cherry Blossom Uprising" has a deep significance to democracy, writes Professor John Keane. "It points to ...
Gas crisis: a crisis of guile and greed

Gas crisis: a crisis of guile and greed

It is bizarre that gas customers in Japan buy Australian gas more cheaply than Australians. Some of this gas is ...
A tribute to Bill Leak

A tribute to Bill Leak

The Twitternutters are out in force blaming the Human Rights Commissioner for persecuting Bill Leak into the ...
ScoMo tells the truth about real estate, gets the sin bin

ScoMo tells the truth about real estate, gets the sin bin

On Monday, Treasurer Scott Morrison told the truth. On Friday he was gone, gone as the government's chief ...
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