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.
The devil and the deep blue sea

The devil and the deep blue sea

''On the surface, they can still exercise their iniquitous laws, fight, devour each other, and indulge in all ...

Centro payout gives major auditors a sinking feeling

PwC's settlement will not only raise professional indemnity fees, but damages the industry's reputation, writes ...

Spreading the pain of PPPs

Two privatisations, neither quite as they seem. One, the Ararat Prison Project in Victoria, is being hammered as ...

Time to come clean on public-private finances

The Victorian government's partner in the $1 billion Royal Children's Hospital project was none other than Babcock ...

Centro settlement raises more questions than it answers

The irking thing about this Centro settlement is that it raises more questions than it answers. The price to shut ...

Time for disclosure on PPPs

The Victorian Government's partner in the $1 billion Royal Children's Hospital project was none other than Babcock ...

Detention firm’s profits booming

THE surge in boats carrying asylum seekers last year has delivered an explosion in profits for the company that ...
ASIC’s death by a thousand cuts

ASIC’s death by a thousand cuts

Over the past nine years, 800 million people have been born into the world, YouTube and Facebook were invented and ...
One man’s cry for freedom disappears into a black pit

One man’s cry for freedom disappears into a black pit

OVER the past nine years, 800 million people have been born into the world, YouTube and Facebook were invented and ...

Public works without disclosure

THEY are the hotshots of structured finance, the corporate overlords of our public hospitals and high-security ...

Taxpayers left in dark over public private partnerships

A maze of companies obscures the money trail in Plenary's PPP deals, writes Michael West. They are the hotshots ...

Defences against the apocalypse

Quite a glamorous husband and wife team were being interviewed on the Fox News Network this week. They were gun ...
No results found.

Don't pay so you can read it. Pay so everyone can!

Don't pay so you can read it.
Pay so everyone can!

Pin It on Pinterest