Callum Foote

Callum Foote was a reporter for Michael West Media for four years.
Cemetery Wars: Chris Minns faces an $800m black hole in the NSW state budget

Cemetery Wars: Chris Minns faces an $800m black hole in the NSW state budget

Sydney is running out of burial space and the newish government of Chris Minns faces an $800m black hole in NSW ...
EY in public eye: Dan Andrews backs expert on Grand Prix, rejects expert on Commonwealth Games

EY in public eye: Dan Andrews backs expert on Grand Prix, rejects expert on Commonwealth Games

A report by Big 4 consultants EY was used to justify the case for the Commonwealth Games. Another report by EY was ...
Forked Tongues: heavy emitters exposed as hypocrites on climate action, new analysis shows

Forked Tongues: heavy emitters exposed as hypocrites on climate action, new analysis shows

Behind public statements supporting climate action, key companies engaged in extensive lobbying against Labor’s ...
Sydney Cemetery War: meet the new boss, same as the old boss

Sydney Cemetery War: meet the new boss, same as the old boss

Cemetery industry experts warn that the new Minister for Cemeteries, Steve Kamper, risks breaching the NSW ...
Smoke and Mirrors: report finds Origin Energy’s suitor Brookfield an aggressive global tax dodger

Smoke and Mirrors: report finds Origin Energy’s suitor Brookfield an aggressive global tax dodger

A global analysis of Canadian financial engineering juggernaut Brookfield, which is close to wrapping its $20bn ...
Have Shine Justice and PwC overstated the assets of the law firm?

Have Shine Justice and PwC overstated the assets of the law firm?

Callum Foote has dusted off the accounting standards (AASB) and discovered that Shine Justice and its auditors PwC ...
Shine Justice to offload heavy finance costs onto pelvic mesh victims?

Shine Justice to offload heavy finance costs onto pelvic mesh victims?

Johnson & Johnson pelvic mesh victims have expressed dismay at efforts by their law firm, Shine Justice, to stiff ...
Three new coal mines and a coal extension get environmental approval. What’s the scam?

Three new coal mines and a coal extension get environmental approval. What’s the scam?

No coal mine will be left behind! Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek waited until media mayhem of the Federal ...
OK or better? Parliament fight on housing crisis escalates between Labor and Cross Bench

OK or better? Parliament fight on housing crisis escalates between Labor and Cross Bench

Better the okay or the perfect? The debate about the Housing Australia fund raged in the Senate, with the Greens ...
Plonk in the Room: Budget 2023 tax elephant and the third degree on Stage 3

Plonk in the Room: Budget 2023 tax elephant and the third degree on Stage 3

This year’s government revenue, and subsequent surprise surplus, were heavily bolstered by windfall commodity ...
Finally a surplus, but Budget fine print reveals tough times to continue for households

Finally a surplus, but Budget fine print reveals tough times to continue for households

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has scraped together a budget surplus for one year thanks to raging commodity prices, but ...
Media Circus: leaks galore as a Labor government Budget surplus looms

Media Circus: leaks galore as a Labor government Budget surplus looms

Federal Budget this evening will likely be an anti-climax. At least as far as good news is concerned such as the ...

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