
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.


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

Blind Injustice
National Australia Bank has been charging an elderly blind farmer from rural Victoria 28 per cent interest rates ...

Supermarkets’ “pay-on-scan” scam ups ante on suppliers
The supermarket giants are stringing out their suppliers by signing them up to “pay-on-scan” terms where the ...

Why gas prices are through the roof
Interview with analyst Bruce Robertson about rampaging gas prices and Australia's gas cartel who have been driving ...

Pay time: the big squeeze on small business
US cereal giant Kellogg’s and New Zealand milk multinational Fonterra have put the squeeze on local suppliers by ...

Foreign Bribery: Australia’s loss is America’s gain
A light chuckle rippled through the audience at a breakfast event last Thursday morning in offices of McGrathNicol ...

Quest for Public Information
https://youtu.be/ePoGhWp3fUM
It's up there with the Holy Grail, the Golden Fleece, even Kevin Rudd's crusade for ...

Mine voids: big party, now for the hangover
Mining companies and regulators have gravely underestimated the costs of mine rehabilitation, leaving taxpayers in ...

eBay Scores Own-Goal on Tax
It is an “own-goal” of epic proportions. Ebay Australia has managed to arouse the interest of the Tax Office by ...

It’s a gas! Australian gas is a bargain … if you’re Japanese
In Japan, they pay a lot less for Australian gas than we do in Australia.
Last month, the spot price in Japan ...
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