Action from ALP on pokies, gambling, more long-shot than sure bet
Labor has a long history of profiting from poker machines. Will they move a motion at the ALP National Conference ...
Stephen Mayne
Stephen Mayne is a Walkley Award winning journalist, shareholder activist, former City of Melbourne councillor, former spindoctor for Jeff Kennett’s Victorian Liberal Government, current City of Manningham councillor, founder of Crikey and publisher of The Mayne Report.
The sharemarket of deathly hollows: $100b of equity passes from public to private hands in takeover binge
Big Australian companies once listed on the ASX are slipping into private hands at an alarming rate. Stephen Mayne ...
Queen Elizabeth and King Rupert: seven decades of exercising soft power and hard
After both lost their fathers suddenly in 1952, Rupert Murdoch and Queen Elizabeth were thrust into unexpected ...
ASIC grandly slammed by Harold Mitchell mates, must appeal Tennis Australia case
The Liberals have appointed all the key personnel to corporate cop ASIC. The decision on whether to appeal the ...
Rio Tinto: ditch the colonial baggage and get with a 21st-century program
Astronomical profits on the back of continued exploitation of Indigenous-owned land in WA. It's time Rio upped the ...
Pokies Putsch: RSL’s pokies-captured old guard fend off young veterans reforms
The push is on around Australia to re-open club pokies dens. At RSL Victoria, the old guard board has been caught ...
Keep the Pokies Shut: Australians are saving $38 million a day
The pokies are shut. Thousands of Australians believe they should stay shut for as long as possible. Meanwhile, ...
ASX Heist: small shareholders ripped by bankers in rash of emergency capital raisings
Small investors on the ASX are being ripped off again by Wall Street investment banks, writes shareholder activist ...
Revealed: how the Murdoch men looted $1.4 billion in salary from public companies
News Corp’s Australian newspapers are quick to attack union leaders and local government bureaucrats for being ...
Quid Pro Quo: who paid who before the Election and what do they want?
Nine months after the Election, we find out who bought it. From News Corp to GetUp, from Adani to the Australian ...
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