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.

Sunland property case throws up difficult questions

THE PRESS CONFERENCE December 2013, Melbourne Airport: Matthew Joyce and his wife Angela Higgins arrived from ...

Revealing look at ASIC’s practices

James Wheeldon joined the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in mid-2004. It was his first legal job ...

Watchdog favoured big business, says former ASIC lawyer

A lawyer who worked for the Australian Securities & Investments Commission has told the Senate how he was ...

BHP spin-off would be good for shareholders

Details remain scant but reports that BHP may be mooting a $20 billion spinoff of its aluminium, nickel and ...

Westpac’s ‘no-brainer’ brings financial advice debate to mind

Raymond Tatnell's financial adviser told him the investment was ''a no-brainer''. He was right. Tatnell lost ...

Risks outweigh Medibank float’s meagre reward

Dear knights, dames and peasants, far be it for this lowly quill-driver to launch inquiry upon the ...

Powerful continue to triumph over the powerless

Opinion "The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.'' (Code of Hammurabi, ...
No need to fear AGL’s gas supply ‘cliff’

No need to fear AGL’s gas supply ‘cliff’

Anybody who has been listening to AGL or the media coverage it has received this week will have heard the message ...

Blinkered to threat of rising oil prices

Oil production in Australia peaked in 2000. It would have peaked worldwide too by now, had it not been for the ...

Elmer Funke Kupper: supreme leader swims in his own ‘dark pools’

North Korea's official news agency reported earlier this month that Kim Jong-un won no less than 100 per cent ...

The fisherman caught out by the low-doc loan

Graham Filmer used to earn a living 30 kilometres off the coast of Corny Point in South Australia long-line ...

Super Rupert: Murdoch in investment management foray with Alan Kohler

Rupert Murdoch's News Limited is considering a proposal by finance guru Alan Kohler to expand into investment ...
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