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.

For all the gas expended, little has been produced

IT WAS pure gold, the best first line to a telephone conversation in years. This week we called Stewart ...

Master of illusion’s vanishing act

It was pure gold, the best first line to a telephone conversation in years. We called Stewart Elliott this week, ...

Corporate watchdog still asleep on the job

It seems the smaller you are, the less significant in a national economic sense, the more likely it is you will ...

Constructing reasons for failing to file

Last month, the venerable NSW construction company Kell & Rigby collapsed after a century in business. There ...

Ethics brawl at Ethical Investment

The sustainability report for Australian Ethical Investment tells you how many A4 sheets of paper they used. ...

Time for the Yellow Pages to walk the gangplank

Telstra might have fetched $17 billion-plus a few years ago. They would jump at a third of that now. Sensis, ...

Time for Telstra to turn the page

The Yellow Pages is very useful, you know. It's not just a handy prop to dig out of the broom cupboard when the ...

Compliance violations a blot on regulator

There must be a Sir Humphrey Appleby clone in Canberra, someone telling any meddlesome new minister or incoming ...

Golden goose lays an egg

It seems no one wants to upset the ASIC apple cart to enforce disclosure laws. THERE must be a Sir Humphrey ...

Companies which file financial accounts late, or not at all

Here is a list of big companies which regularly fail to lodge financial accounts with the Australian Securities ...

No accounts, no worries: companies thumb nose at ASIC

Serco Australia, the company which incarcerates refugees on behalf of the Commonwealth, enjoyed a tidy doubling in ...

Billionaires grow fat off lazy government

It might seem ungracious that, in the very week Clive Palmer floats the very civic idea of a billionaires' blind ...
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