RBA conundrum: to shrink debt or hang onto that record low funding?By Michael West | June 19, 2023The RBA has more than two policy levers at its disposal (tweaking interest rates and jawboning). It can curb ...
Dreadnoughts and Virginias: why is Australia paying more than twice the price for submarines?By Michael West | June 13, 2023Paul Keating described the AUKUS deal negotiated by the Albanese government as the "worst deal in all history". Is ...
Origin Energy bidder Brookfield slapped by pension funds for tax chicaneryBy Michael West | June 13, 2023Financial engineer Brookfield, which is bidding for Origin Energy, has been pinged at its annual meeting with a ...
Greens block Labor housing plan, Labor responds with Macbankers’ dreamBy Michael West | June 13, 2023In a bid to salvage its rather labyrinthine Housing Affordability Future Fund (HAFF) proposal, Labor has sallied ...
Alan Joyce selling his own Qantas shares into the buy-back, que?By Michael West | June 10, 2023What's the scam with the Qantas board letting CEO Alan Joyce dump $17m worth of his own Qantas shares into the ...
Hey Philip Lowe, it ain’t the wages. Best regards from Mathias Cormann and the OECDBy Kim Wingerei | June 8, 2023The latest OECD report is out, confirming higher profits are the leading component of recent inflation in ...
Business “declares war on PM” over … umm … what?By Michael West | June 5, 2023The Nine and Murdoch media declared war was coming this morning, a "full-scale IR war" by business against the ...
The ACCC flies to the rescue! What would we know without them?By Kim Wingerei | June 5, 2023The ACCC has just released its latest report on domestic airline competition. It concludes that there isn't enough ...
A win for journalism. But Ben Roberts-Smith is still at large. What’s the scam?By Kim Wingerei | June 2, 2023Justice Anthony Besanko found that Chris Masters and Nick Mackenzies and their publishers were substantially ...
Government gutted as PwC, Big 4 pick up $1.4b a year for giving adviceBy Michael West | May 22, 2023The Centre for Public Integrity has published analysis of political donations and government contract work for Big ...
Gas lobby APPEA calls for transparency while its own financial reports vanish. What’s the scam?By Michael West | May 19, 2023There is no noisier, whingier bunch of lobbyists in Australia than APPEA, the town criers for multinational oil ...
Playing chicken to the detriment of democracy and cost to the taxpayerBy Rex Patrick | May 17, 2023Far too often, government departments and its agencies deny Freedom of Information requests without good reason. ...
RBA conundrum: to shrink debt or hang onto that record low funding?By Michael West | June 19, 2023The RBA has more than two policy levers at its disposal (tweaking interest rates and jawboning). It can curb ...
Dreadnoughts and Virginias: why is Australia paying more than twice the price for submarines?By Michael West | June 13, 2023Paul Keating described the AUKUS deal negotiated by the Albanese government as the "worst deal in all history". Is ...
Origin Energy bidder Brookfield slapped by pension funds for tax chicaneryBy Michael West | June 13, 2023Financial engineer Brookfield, which is bidding for Origin Energy, has been pinged at its annual meeting with a ...
Greens block Labor housing plan, Labor responds with Macbankers’ dreamBy Michael West | June 13, 2023In a bid to salvage its rather labyrinthine Housing Affordability Future Fund (HAFF) proposal, Labor has sallied ...
Alan Joyce selling his own Qantas shares into the buy-back, que?By Michael West | June 10, 2023What's the scam with the Qantas board letting CEO Alan Joyce dump $17m worth of his own Qantas shares into the ...
Hey Philip Lowe, it ain’t the wages. Best regards from Mathias Cormann and the OECDBy Kim Wingerei | June 8, 2023The latest OECD report is out, confirming higher profits are the leading component of recent inflation in ...
Business “declares war on PM” over … umm … what?By Michael West | June 5, 2023The Nine and Murdoch media declared war was coming this morning, a "full-scale IR war" by business against the ...
The ACCC flies to the rescue! What would we know without them?By Kim Wingerei | June 5, 2023The ACCC has just released its latest report on domestic airline competition. It concludes that there isn't enough ...
A win for journalism. But Ben Roberts-Smith is still at large. What’s the scam?By Kim Wingerei | June 2, 2023Justice Anthony Besanko found that Chris Masters and Nick Mackenzies and their publishers were substantially ...
Government gutted as PwC, Big 4 pick up $1.4b a year for giving adviceBy Michael West | May 22, 2023The Centre for Public Integrity has published analysis of political donations and government contract work for Big ...
Gas lobby APPEA calls for transparency while its own financial reports vanish. What’s the scam?By Michael West | May 19, 2023There is no noisier, whingier bunch of lobbyists in Australia than APPEA, the town criers for multinational oil ...
Playing chicken to the detriment of democracy and cost to the taxpayerBy Rex Patrick | May 17, 2023Far too often, government departments and its agencies deny Freedom of Information requests without good reason. ...