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.

Labor’s corporate tax avoidance policy is mostly window dressing

The best maxim with which to encapsulate Labor's new policy on corporate tax avoidance is perhaps "deckchairs on ...

LNG lobby has well-oiled spruiking machine

Farmers and environmentalists will be happy. Hong Kong power juggernaut CLP has just written off its stake in ...

Profit-shifting: Tax office settles for patting the elephant in the room

The House of Representatives was consumed for much of the week on the vexing matter of whether Human Rights ...
Watching the watchdog: Secondments spell trouble at ASIC

Watching the watchdog: Secondments spell trouble at ASIC

We know there is a problem: some of the biggest names in Australian finance – Commonwealth Bank, Macquarie and now ...

Watchdogs are no longer tough cops on the beat on white collar crime

When it comes to corporate regulation in this country there are one set of rules for the top end of town and ...

A conspiracy to stiff gas consumers

Coal prices have crashed, the carbon tax has gone, yet the cost of electricity continues to rise. Oil prices ...
News loans to Foxtel questioned

News loans to Foxtel questioned

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and Telstra Corporation are lending money to their cashed-up pay TV business ...

Tax haven explosion puts hole in corporate tax

Confidential documents obtained from the Tax Office under the Freedom of Information Act show Australia's ...

Tax avoidance as bad as bottom of the harbour schemes

John Miller believes the leadership of the profession no longer had the same clout as it did 30 years ago. Photo: ...

Google paying a fraction of the tax in Australia it should

How much tax does Google really owe Australia? Its submission to the parliamentary inquiry into corporate tax ...

Australian filmmakers find success with the digital-only release of The Mule

More on The Mule  Movie session times Full movies coverage For an independent Aussie film about a ...

Inquiry’s roll call of tax avoiders

We pay our fair share, say Google and Apple More money going through 'hubs' than ever before Big ...
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