Lives at risk. Rate cut for sparkies ahead of smart meter speed-up
Electricians working on the national smart meter rollout told MWM in June that low rates were putting lives at ...
Zacharias Szumer is a freelance writer from Melbourne. In addition to Michael West Media, he has written for The Monthly, Overland, Jacobin, The Quietus, The South China Morning Post and other outlets.
He was also responsible for our War Power Reforms series.
More gas. Labor amps it up past twenty fossil fuel approvals
At least two more offshore oil and gas projects have been approved in the last 40 days, bringing the Albanese ...
North West Shelf. The mother-lode of fossil fuel approvals
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Strictly embargoed! The gaming of the press release
Does the delicate dance between politicians and political journalists distort what the public is told and when?
Smart meters not so smart for underpaid installers
Sparkies say the companies handling the smart meter rollout are pushing down wages to the point of putting lives at risk.
Environment minister Murray Watt approves 4.3 billion tonnes of carbon emissions
The new environment minister has wasted no time getting stuck into one of his portfolio’s most controversial ...
Another day, another gas approval as Labor caves on big dirty Barossa
Australia’s offshore oil and gas regulator is stepping on the gas ahead of the election, with two project ...
Caretaker of the Fossils: Beach approval takes government’s gas and coal tally to 17
The government is in caretaker mode, but that hasn’t stopped federal agencies from quietly approving new fossil ...
Nothing to see here, optometry chain claims. What’s the scam?
Questioned for our corporate optometry exposé, retail giant Specsavers said it "does not send percentage-based ...
New glasses? The unsightly world of optometry retailing
With Medicare shaping up as a key election issue, we examine optometry retailing and how your friendly optometrist ...
Medicare Mystery unravelled. No ‘free-fall’ in bulk billing
Anthony Albanese has announced $8.5 billion in new Medicare spending, with a goal of making 90% of all GP visits ...
Medicare – bulk-billing, bluster and a ‘Mediscare’ redux?
A new report suggests that the number of GP clinics offering bulk-billing to adults without concessions is in ...
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