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.
Bunnings: perils of the fine print

Bunnings: perils of the fine print

The moral of this story is nobody reads the fine print, nobody. Even the person who wrote the fine print probably ...
Bunnings: lowest acts are just the beginning

Bunnings: lowest acts are just the beginning

“At Bunnings, lower prices are just the beginning, we’ll also take your house!”
Multinational sham: how Australia was hoodwinked

Multinational sham: how Australia was hoodwinked

Today we unveil a potent thesis on multinational tax avoidance by Michael Hibbins, formerly an executive of a ...
Investigation: ASIC fees highest in world, even before data sale

Investigation: ASIC fees highest in world, even before data sale

Australia is perilously close to slipping behind Bangladesh and Cambodia as the most costly place in the world to ...
Justice for Blind Farmer

Justice for Blind Farmer

A Good Banking Story Two executives from National Australia Bank drove from Melbourne to northern Victoria this ...
ASIC sale: rhetoric versus reality

ASIC sale: rhetoric versus reality

The devious plan to peddle the country’s corporate database to a private operator met a wall of opposition in ...
we Can: CBA targets 84-year-old widow

we Can: CBA targets 84-year-old widow

The Commonwealth Bank is pursuing 84-year-old widow Wilma Shannon through the courts to recover money it claims is ...
Fee Gouge: already extreme, ASIC charges to rise

Fee Gouge: already extreme, ASIC charges to rise

ASIC Plot: Corporate Database Close to Sale

ASIC Plot: Corporate Database Close to Sale

Flogging the nation’s company database to a monopoly private operator must be one of the zanier ideas to have been ...
George Pell silences PwC, EY, KPMG & Deloitte

George Pell silences PwC, EY, KPMG & Deloitte

Global accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) had won its most illustrious mandate yet, the first ever ...
Blind Injustice

Blind Injustice

National Australia Bank has been charging an elderly blind farmer from rural Victoria 28 per cent interest rates ...
No results found.

Don't pay so you can read it. Pay so everyone can!

Don't pay so you can read it.
Pay so everyone can!

Pin It on Pinterest