The $80 billion bomb: government spending explodes
As the leadership crisis in the Liberal Party escalated last month, there was an unprecedented, gargantuan ...
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.
The NSW Clubs Pokies Bonanza
Pokies: the Rise of the Machines
There is a mass transfer of wealth afoot, a transfer of wealth from the poorer city suburbs and rural regions to ...
Government spending soars amid blow-out in no-tender contracts
AS the federal election looms next year, there is a multi-billion dollar blow-out in government spending on ...
Love a flutter? Here’s a flutter!
Imagine a local council area where households lost, on average, $8,865.60 each on the pokies a year. Okay, you can ...
Aged care, Allity and the Jersey connection
It is said that private equity players are so ruthless they would sell their own grandmothers. The question is, ...
Holy Dooley, Catholic clubs make a killing from poker machines
DOOLEYS Lidcombe Catholic Club has raked in more than half a billion dollars from poker machines over the past ten ...
Peter Dutton still has a case to answer over child care payments
John Owens, an operator of childcare centres and formerly a partner in leading Sydney law firm, says is it ...
LendLease time to fess up
The 2018 Tax Report of LendLease is out. It confirms the construction juggernaut has effectively paid no tax in ...
Latest TPP a parade of corporate favours masquerading as free trade
Bad for workers, bad for taxpayers, bad for the environment, bad for Australia. The latest iteration of the ...
PEXA: privatising an essential public service … what could possibly go wrong?
They've seen prices go through the roof in NSW. They've see a raft of data-breaches and cyber-crimes. Rod Sims is ...
Sydney Opera House: Australia’s gambling treasure
Deloitte valued the Sydney Opera House at $4.6 billion. That might be "replacement cost" if you had to raze it to ...
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