Budget Whingers, Gambling Ads and the Israel Lobby | Scam of the Week

by | May 17, 2026 | The West Report

The Budget pearl-clutchers had a pearler this week.

Michael West looks at the budget backlash over negative gearing and capital gains tax, the Liberal Party’s latest by-election disaster, Angus Taylor’s numbers problem, the government burying its response to gambling ads reform on Budget Day, and the biggest winner from Budget by far … a foreign lobby group.
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Chapters

00:00 Budget whingers
02:29 Negative gearing
06:04 Farrer’s Liberal wipeout
07:48 Angus Taylor’s reply
09:08 Gambling report dumped
11:04 Budget’s big winners
13:59 Scam of the Week
14:57 BHP lawsuit update

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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.

 

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