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.

Oz Minerals settles two lawsuits on debt claims

Oz Minerals has settled two class shareholder lawsuits for $60 million which claimed the mining company failed to ...

Another cop-out in Canberra

This week the International Monetary Fund warned against squandering the riches of the mining boom. Alongside ...

Not just another crackdown

To the trained eye the word crackdown in a newspaper headline smacks of the triumph of image over substance. It ...

Oh, for a peek inside Fort Knox

A chap rang up to buy some gold stocks. It was 1999, gold was on the nose, trading beneath $US300 an ounce. An ...

Princely Macquarie madness

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Hamlet, Act 1, Scene IV Fie! A pox on those wretched Danes. Tis a ...

Secrets among the splendour

JUST over an hour's drive from Melbourne's CBD lies the Yarra Valley, home to some of Australia's premier ...
The watchdog, his wife, and their winery

The watchdog, his wife, and their winery

Scott Rochfort, Michael West and Ian Verrender reveal how ASIC chairman Tony D'Aloisio became a vigneron. Just a ...

How corporate watchdog bought his slice of paradise

THE corporate regulator, Tony D'Aloisio, bought a Yarra Valley winery from a distressed public company seven ...

ASIC boss in ‘secret’ winery buy

CORPORATE regulator Tony D'Aloisio bought a Yarra Valley winery from a distressed public company seven months ...

Too late, the trolley has bolted

In 1975 Woolies had 17.7 per cent of the branded grocery market, Coles spoke for 17.5 per cent, Franklins 4.8 per ...

Look out. It’s behind you, Billy

The US bond market is the biggest in the world. At roughly $32 trillion, it dwarfs the sharemarket. It is the ...

There’s still a lot of bears about in this bull market

Wall Street was rattled on Monday night. It was as though, amid the sharemarket's supreme short-termism, that ...
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