Budgets and Bushfires: has government cost-cutting hindered the firefighting?
"How come we only had four trucks to defend our town?" pleaded the distressed resident of Cobargo to Prime ...
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.
Who Pays: should ordinary taxpayers foot the bill for bushfires or the fossil fuel giants who pay no tax?
Five of Australia's top coal companies - Peabody, Yancoal Sumitomo, Citic and Whitehaven - racked up $54 billion ...
Smithereens: Australia’s climate commitments blown if giant fossil fuel projects proceed
As bushfires rage and the demands for action on climate rise, the gas cartel is developing a suite of enormous ...
Secrets and Lies: how franking credits stole the tax bonanza
Thanks to franking credits, the $52 billion in tax paid by Australia's largest corporations is not actually ...
OGNAP: how the Government protects its donors and tax dodgers
Bring out yer dead, bring out yer dead. Tis' the season to bury the news. Michael West reports on OGNAP. If you ...
Fleecing Australia: Tax Office data dump shows the usual large culprits paying no tax
The giant foreign corporations who extract the most from Australian soils and seabeds have once again paid the ...
Operation Slippery: Russian aviation magnate diverts Australian Defence profits to tax havens
Australia’s Department of Defence is keeping silent. Yet it has serious questions to answer over its dealings with ...
Uppercut: call for violence at Parliamentary Inquiry into accountants
It was hardly the venue for violence, the Joint Parliamentary Inquiry into Regulation of Audit in Australia. The ...
The Barangaroo Triangle: inside Westpac’s invisible banking regime
Westpac has been running an invisible banking system, invisible to regulators, where multinational company clients ...
WA brings Brookfield to heel but no excuse for privatising essential services
Governments flogging essential services, particularly monopolies, to private operators has always been a "no-no" ...
Hardly Normal: appalling insults by Gerry mar Harvey Norman meeting amid activist revolt
"Are you are sexual predator?" asked Gerry Harvey of a dissident shareholder who was politely though persistently ...
Stephen Mayne on Gerry Harvey’s fans in the Murdoch media as fiery shareholder showdown looms
The culture wars have engulfed the stock market. As a fiery shareholder showdown looms at the Harvey Norman annual ...
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