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.

Books fail to tell the full Clive Palmer company picture

Clive Palmer may be busy shaping the laws of the nation, but when it comes to obeying them, his flagship ...
Hangover shortlived for miners who like to party

Hangover shortlived for miners who like to party

It was April 26, 2007 when Etihad flight 451 left Sydney bound for Abu Dhabi. Up in the pointy end of the plane ...

The shame is big dodgers slip the net

Hollywood star Mel Gibson is among the celebrities, sportsmen and prominent business types named by the ...

CBA led banks’ charge on ABC Learning

The banks did a sneaky thing as Eddy Groves' childcare empire was teetering at the precipice of collapse in 2008, ...

Search to unearth Google Australia directors returns ‘0’

COMMENT We popped by to visit Mark Stewart Tucker on Saturday at his home at Bungan Beach. Mark lives ...
Laws of the land make Facebook fantasies come true

Laws of the land make Facebook fantasies come true

Facebook is a special place. It is a place where one can counterfeit one's personality, kick back in one's ...
Glencore tax bill on $15b income: almost zero

Glencore tax bill on $15b income: almost zero

Australia's largest coalminer, Glencore, paid almost zero tax over the past three years, despite income of $15 ...

Consumers unlikely to benefit in NSW electricity sell-off

TransGrid's response to Michael West If the privatisation of Victoria's grid is any guide, plans by NSW to sell ...

Gushing Glencore converts tax flow into tiny trickle

Peter Freyberg is chief executive of Glencore Xstrata, the biggest coal company in Australia. He is also ...

Entitlement is in the eye of the beholder; just Google it

Warning 'patent box' rules would open new multinational tax dodge Pensioners, uni students, workers, ...

Schoolchildren embroiled in coal-seam gas dispute

Jenni O'Neill, mother of two from Gloucester in NSW, shot off a missive to the Department of Education last ...

Is petrol producer an empty Shell?

While the debate about ‘‘heavy lifting’’ rages over the federal budget, it is timely to look at just how much ...
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