Modular Reactors. Peter Dutton hasn’t done his nuclear homework
Is Peter Dutton’s proposed ‘rollout’ of modular nuclear reactors real policy or just politics? What research has he done to develop the policy? Not much, it seems
Tax-free mansion flipping vs housing crisis. What’s the scam?
What’s the scam with the mansion flipping epidemic? Are the profits CGT free if you flip your three storey pad before you live in it? And what if you buy the property next door and amalgamate it into your primary residence?
The cost of needless secrecy on nuclear. What’s the scam?
The Defence Department and the ADF should keep secrets important to protect our national security. But that doesn’t mean everything they do should be secret. Rex Patrick on the cost of needless secrecy.
Updated – Favours and Maates: what’s the scam with Jim Chalmers giving the Fin Review a back rub?
Government ministers mollycoddling mainstream media is an age old practise, but dudding independent media and small business in favour of mates and big business goes too far. What’s the scam with Treasurer Jim Chalmers and the AFR?
Scam of the Week – The Taxman Can
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRViMDO_M24 TikTok, nuclear energy, the 'ute tax' politicians' expenses? Pfft. How about the Tax Office mollycoddling multinationals while targetting ordinary people with its Robodebt scheme! Patreon:...
What’s the scam with death threats – are they out of fashion?
Back in the day we used to get death threats. They were invariably anonymous and mostly delivered over the telephone in husky tones, but alas we only get lawyers’ threats these days
Executive privilege. How to meet with the PM in private. What’s the scam?
According to his own diary, Anthony Albanese met with then Qantas CEO Alan Joyce on 23 November 2022. Yet, according to the PM’s office, no record of the meeting exists. What’s the scam?
Spies Like Us: why the Government is still backing Woodside over Timor-Leste
Two decades after the Howard Government spied on Timor-Leste’s seabed boundary negotiating team, the Albanese Government is still fighting against the truth coming out.
Songbirds and snakes. How to end the ‘Hunger Games’ of housing affordability
In this final instalment of the Housing Hunger Games series, Harry Chemay identifies all policy culprits and all the fixes government can make to deliver more affordable housing for renters and first-home-buyers.
Censors Enthroned: the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill
Should the government decide what news is appropriate, and what is not, for its people? “The sirens should be going off”. Binoy Kampmark on the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill.
Fake news or no news? The folly of the News Media Bargaining Code
Meta’s announcement that Facebook will no longer pay (some) Australian publishers for their news content has again highlighted the folly of the News Media Bargaining Code. It’s a poor solution to the wrong problem.
Tax-free mansion flipping vs housing crisis. What’s the scam?
What’s the scam with the mansion flipping epidemic? Are the profits CGT free if you flip your three storey pad before you live in it? And what if you buy the property next door and amalgamate it into your primary residence?
Commbank to take BankWest digital, close branches ATMs. What’s the scam?
Commonwealth Bank took over BankWest during the GFC in 2008. They were chasing the residential loan book, wiped out all the commercial loans sparking years of legal action. Westpac took out St George around the same time, shrinking the players in banking.
What’s the scam with Snow Hydro 2.0 Chris – are they boring a secret bottomless money pit?
It’s a document that purports to explain $6 billion in public expenditure. Yet Minister Chris Bowen is putting every hurdle in the way to stop public scrutiny. What’s the scam?
Qantas gets customers to pay surcharge during promo. What’s the scam?
Is Qantas jacking up fares to pay for a time-limited promotion? That is illegal under the Consumer & Competition Act administered by the ACCC. What’s the scam?
Divorced from Reality | Scam of the Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkJpU4Ad72g Will the foreign spy and his 'A Team' - the anonymous, mysterious, traitorous, former politician in our very midst take out Scam of the Week? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheWestReport Merch:...
University Reform Analysis + Jason Clare MP | Insiders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tccYzKco8T8 The Universities Accord report calls for a serious overhaul of the higher education sector. The main recommendation is for a new target – 80% of working age Australians having some form of tertiary education by 2050 – up...
Advance Australia astroturfers | Scam of the Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D90Ec-vY5ss Westy talks Scam of the Week: media and political hijinx, Advance Australia scam artists, Woolies and Coles, ANZ and Suncorp, Albo and Dutton.
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