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

by | May 17, 2026 | Scam of the Week

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 the Budget by far … a foreign lobby group.
#auspol #royalcommission #budget #economy

 

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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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