Category: Michael West

Screen Australia has awarded over $2 million in funding to a company owned by a former associate of Harvey Weinstein.

Emissions targets are dead. Corrupt governments in hock to their corporate donors are accelerating fossil fuel projects despite international condemnation, economic logic and the future of the planet. Michael West reports on Kurri Kurri gas plant and the slew of new projects.

Home ownership has plunged from 43% of Australians to just 30% in 20 years, while mortgages and renting has jumped.

The Morrison government’s campaign to toss tennis star Novak Djokovic out of Australia is an attack on the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary.

PM Scott Morrison came out strongly against Novak Djokovic again this week, claiming “rules are rules” but his government are prolific rule breakers

Australian governments and businesses have been warned they face their greatest hacking threat yet, Apache Log4j. John Stapleton reports on Australian Cyber Security Centre warnings of possible widespread systems failure

Covid has spread like wildfire to around 500 aged care homes as the government failed to deliver RATs, booster vaccines and a surge workforce

Big business profiteers have made out like bandits through the Pandemic, emboldened by myriad failures of government and community panic. Callum Foote and Stephanie Tran report on the RAT test wave and the wave of private hospital profit opportunity looming in its wake.

No free RAT tests but Dutton has forked out $3.5 billion for tanks to replace a fleet we purchased in…

The Morrison government, Immigration Minister Alex Hawke and the business lobby desperately want a surge in immigration to fire the economy but 330,000 migrants remain stuck on bridging visas as the permanent migration program remains mired at an intake of 160,000.

The drop in skilled workers arriving in Australia has hit the economy, and it began many years before the Pandemic. Alan Austin reports on the decline of innovation.

“They let it rip. And it ripped. Three Covid infections in Bali yesterday, 35,000 in NSW. Nursing homes are locking…