Too Big To Fail II: airline bail-outs today, who’s next in corporate triage?
The Morrison government just bailed out Australia's airlines with a $715 million relief package. This corporate ...
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.
Too Big To Fail: Qantas, the corporate elite and the coronavirus
Alan Joyce is a canny operator. As the ravages of the coronavirus began to hit the airline hard, the Qantas boss ...
GFC v Corona Crash: why it’s different this time
Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg can kiss their cherished budget surplus goodbye. They never quite got there. ...
Great Timing: inside the ASIC investigation into Westpac’s jumbo capital raising
ASIC investigates Westpac's $2.5 billion capital raising, executed just before AUSTRAC's lawsuit against the bank ...
Tanna & Taxation: correcting the Fin Review and Energy Australia
The Australian Financial Review attacked Senator Rex Patrick this week after Patrick attacked Energy Australia ...
Ranking Australia’s billionaires as taxpayers
Which billionaires pay the most tax, and which pay the least?
Coronavirus: containment to mitigation. Virologists use the P word
Global response to the coronavirus is about to shift from containment to mitigation - that is, things are about to ...
Scott Morrison Scorecard: before Triple Black Swan of bushfires, floods and virus
Economic growth has halved, debt has rocketed, but the share market is up and bond yields have collapsed. Female ...
Lendlease trumps Qantas on aggressive tax capers as ATO mulls retirement village rort
Like Qantas, Lendlease paid no tax for years while rewarding its executives with large bonuses and spending ...
Australia’s Top 40 Tax Dodgers 2020: fossil fuels dominate once more
It's Top 40 Tax Dodgers time and Exxon has topped the charts again. This year, we are announcing all 40 in one go
The Living Dead: Babcock emerges as mystery cinema owner
For two years, the people of of Westborough, Massachusetts, tried to find out who owned their town cinema. They ...
Budgets and Bushfires: has government cost-cutting hindered the firefighting?
"How come we only had four trucks to defend our town?" pleaded the distressed resident of Cobargo to Prime ...
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