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.

Protecting our domestic gas is critical

Queensland's power company Stanwell declared last week it would mothball the biggest gas-fired power station in ...

Out of Africa, problems for Zambezi Resources

OPINION Western Australia Premier Colin Barnett, was bunkered in a meeting with the Vice-President of Zambia ...

The ABC needs to start taking care of business

What a tedious spectacle it is - the left and right tearing strips off each other over the ABC. The ABC won't be ...

MasterCards for 16-year-olds in massive frequent flyer mail-out

Qantas and Virgin Australia have embarked on the biggest mail-out of unsolicited debit cards in the country’s ...

Lax lending standards put consumers at risk

Lenders, aggregators and brokers have hit back at accusations by Choice magazine that ''lax'' lending standards ...

Watchdogs asleep on cosy super cash deal

The superannuation regulator and the competition watchdog are sidestepping concerns that Commonwealth, Westpac, ...

Crafty Kibble must have got lost after leaving North Pole

Comment There is a dashing new corporate raider on the scene. Yet, so elusive is this takeover merchant that the ...

Cash grabs win top gong in year of high achievement

Merry Christmas to all! What a rollicking good year it was. Let us present the 2013 gongs for high achievement in ...

Superannuation: Banks eating into savings

Australians' superannuation cash is being pushed into low-returning savings accounts that help boost the ...

Cold, hard, unyielding cash: how fund managers for the big four short change you

Imagine if the fund manager was BT and its only investment was a bunch of shares in Westpac, which is BT's ...

Horrors continue for insurance giant QBE

It was a horror week for QBE: $6 billion wiped from its market worth, another large earnings downgrade and a ...

The wheels started to fall off a long time ago

Comment When I was a lad'', confided an old-timer many years ago to your humble essayist, ''we used to like ...
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