Category: Michael West

Birds away! Gladys Berejiklian’s former boyfriend Daryl Maguire sure did the Wagga Wagga Gun Club a tidy favour when he jagged it a big government grant. What’s the scam?

As Julian Assange prepares to face a British court for possibly the last time, Gary Lord explores the bizarre twists in the US effort to extradite the Wikileaks founder and the silence of global media.

It turns out the very business lobbyists who stood to benefit most from JobKeeper were regularly advising the Government on JobKeeper. How $40bn was squandered and the role of corporate spinners Business Council of Australia and AI Group.

Blessed are the rich, for theirs is the tax from the poor! Elite private schools gorged themselves on JobKeeper despite their profits, on top of Pandemic stimulus payments, and as well as trousering a bigger slice of the federal funding pie

The Coalition’s election war-chest will be brimming with fossil fuel donations thanks to demands by Barnaby Joyce and Keith Pitt to transfer $250bn from Australia to Chinese and other coal and gas companies. Michael West reports on the National Party’s latest brainstorm

Andrew Forrest and Mukesh Ambani, the richest men in India and Australia respectively, have just gone public with renewable energy deals on a scale previously unthinkable.

A $53,000 home-care package gets just nine hours of support yet the government has slung suppliers an extra $6.5bn. Dr Sarah Russell reports on aged care profiteers and finds self-management is the answer

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Where are the US billionaires, the Wall Streeters, the Big Four tax firms Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PwC? Michael West explores the mystery of the Pandora Papers in this first of a two-part series.

“Your smartphone has a built-in frailty that will force it to fail in approximately 2-3 years.” Manal al-Sharif reports on how Big Tech designs products to fail

The ascension of Dominic Perrottet to Premier of NSW comes at a critical hour in the campaign by the Catholic Church to control NSW cemeteries for the next 200 years.

Workers now have the lowest share ever of the nation’s earnings. Under-employment is even worse now than it was late last year. Alan Austin looks behind the spin to report the true state of unemployment and economic management in Australia