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.
Loophole: how Deloitte games the tax laws for Kiwi raider

Loophole: how Deloitte games the tax laws for Kiwi raider

The minute the government brings in new tax laws, the Big Four accounting firms get cracking on the loopholes for ...
Burns Philp & Co Pty Limited

Burns Philp & Co Pty Limited

A classic of corporate obfuscation. Burns Philp is owned by Kiwi corporate raider Graeme Hart, via his Rank ...
Victoria Power Networks Pty Ltd

Victoria Power Networks Pty Ltd

It is fitting that this company kicks off our Top 40 Tax Dodgers chart for 2019. Victoria Power Networks has ...
Victoria Power Networks: #40 on the Top 40 Tax Dodgers Chart

Victoria Power Networks: #40 on the Top 40 Tax Dodgers Chart

They dodge tax, they gouge their customers. They even have their paws out for government grants. Michael West ...
Energy Australia: four years, $30 billion, zero tax

Energy Australia: four years, $30 billion, zero tax

Energy Australia is owned by a company in the infamous tax haven of the British Virgin Islands. For the fourth ...
Adani shown the door by traditional owners

Adani shown the door by traditional owners

How Adani stacked the landowner meetings before it sought court orders to bankrupt traditional landowner, Adrian ...
Sneaky coal giant Glencore drops off the Top40 Tax Dodgers

Sneaky coal giant Glencore drops off the Top40 Tax Dodgers

Australia's largest coal producer, the secretive Swiss commodities trader, Glencore, topped our Top 40 Tax Dodgers ...
Exclusive: ANZ chief faces criminal prosecution

Exclusive: ANZ chief faces criminal prosecution

ANZ chief Shayne Elliott has become the subject of a criminal prosecution.
Hidden billions: ATO forgot to say corporations get tax rebates too

Hidden billions: ATO forgot to say corporations get tax rebates too

Kevin Rudd was PM. An election loomed. Tony Abbott was ahead in the polls and Rupert Murdoch's newspapers were ...
Gilead: extortionate prices, corporate vices

Gilead: extortionate prices, corporate vices

The most expensive drug in Australia, costing taxpayers more than $1 billion a year, or $1,000 a pill, is Gilead's ...
ATO tax dump reveals the dodgers: the usual suspects shine

ATO tax dump reveals the dodgers: the usual suspects shine

Once again, despite the nosebleed rise in gas prices, the gas giants skimped on their tax. That's zero from ...
Privatisations still need scrutiny despite A-G report

Privatisations still need scrutiny despite A-G report

Coincidently, while we were busy chiding the state government yesterday for its mega-willy-nilly privatisation ...

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