Michael West

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.
Robbing Australia: profits soar for gas giants, royalties and tax languish

Robbing Australia: profits soar for gas giants, royalties and tax languish

Foreign gas giants Shell, Chevron, Exxon are enjoying an explosion in revenue while paying virtually no income tax ...
Thanks Alan! Qantas outsourcing debacle leaves taxpayers propping up Chinese baggage handling giant

Thanks Alan! Qantas outsourcing debacle leaves taxpayers propping up Chinese baggage handling giant

Alan Joyce's disastrous cost-cutting binge is not only losing one in ten customer bags but it has also cost ...
Murdoch’s Nuclear Option

Murdoch’s Nuclear Option

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5lVN03U6P0 Murdoch's nuclear spin is one big grift and distraction for fossil ...
Albo sends howitzers to Ukraine but still no sighting of ScoMo’s Aussie coal ship

Albo sends howitzers to Ukraine but still no sighting of ScoMo’s Aussie coal ship

Is Albo auditioning for membership of NATO? His Labor government may be more competent than the Coalition but ...
Gas Lies: as super profits ramp up so too does the fossil fuel propaganda war

Gas Lies: as super profits ramp up so too does the fossil fuel propaganda war

As fossil fuel corporations reap fabulous profits at the expense of Australian gas and electricity customers, the ...
Everything to play for: whistleblower’s home on the line as Lendlease makes merry with tax code

Everything to play for: whistleblower’s home on the line as Lendlease makes merry with tax code

Lendlease whistleblower Tony Watson is fighting the big property developer in court as the Tax Office ...
Alan Joyce’s $5000 “gift” really a $5,000 grift. What’s the scam Qantas?

Alan Joyce’s $5000 “gift” really a $5,000 grift. What’s the scam Qantas?

Lavish in their praise of their big advertiser, the media is extolling Qantas chief Alan Joyce for his "$5,000 ...
Ocean view, or really a carpark view? ASX property float a tough sell

Ocean view, or really a carpark view? ASX property float a tough sell

A Maserati-driving entrepreneur and his exciting new property play have reeled in Stockland and Mirvac, and a ...
Ransom Notes: pay us to keep our old power plants running or else, say fossil fuel majors

Ransom Notes: pay us to keep our old power plants running or else, say fossil fuel majors

Prepare to subsidise fossil fuel plants indefinitely. That is the message this morning as, in the wake of ...
Fed up AEMO finally stands up to fossil fuel bullies pulling electricity heist

Fed up AEMO finally stands up to fossil fuel bullies pulling electricity heist

Surely this is Australia's Enron. The electricity market has been shut down after years of fossil fuel thuggery ...
Gas Led Catastrophe, AEMO and the electricity market mayhem

Gas Led Catastrophe, AEMO and the electricity market mayhem

The electricity market has been suspended, blackouts loom, power prices soar - along with  corporate profits - and ...
The LoweDown: batten down the hatches for “decisive action” as recession, bear markets loom

The LoweDown: batten down the hatches for “decisive action” as recession, bear markets loom

Recession is likely. Share markets, bonds, property, crypto; it’s all falling, just as the cost of living is ...

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