Category: Michael West

Lendlease whistleblower Tony Watson is fighting the big property developer in court as the Tax Office investigation into the $1bn tax scam grinds on behind the scenes. Michael West reports.

The Blockade spokespeople assert that no social change has happened without disruption and some inconvenience to the populace. That assertion is open to challenge.

Some crossbenchers are warning, like the threatening mobster, that there’s some nice legislation there, wouldn’t it be a pity if something should happen to it.

The government has admitted almost all rooftop solar energy in Australia may be double-counted – a massive emission reduction free ride for Australia’s largest corporations. Callum Foote reports.

The Qantas board is offering staff an $87m bribe as it slashes real wages and conditions. As ever, shareholders and Qantas fat cats get the cream, writes Michael Sainsbury.

Lavish in their praise of their big advertiser, the media is extolling Qantas chief Alan Joyce for his “$5,000 gift” to the embattled airline’s employees. What’s the scam?

Michael dives into the latest John Barilaro debacle whilst highlighting the coalitions stacking of government roles with former liberal MPs, staffers and associates. Meanwhile our nation’s jobseekers are left in the lurch. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheWestReport Merch: https://lonelykidsclub.com/new/michael+west Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michaelwest.journo Insta: https://www.instagram.com/michaelwestjourno/

A Maserati-driving entrepreneur and his exciting new property play have reeled in Stockland and Mirvac, and a posse of media and investment bankers, but is all as it seems? Michael West checks out the proposal to float Bricklet on the sharemarket.

Will Perrottet’s land tax bolster a more dynamic housing sector in NSW or result in another boon to vendors before the upcoming election?

As Australians pay the price for decades of poor energy planning, the two single greatest beneficiaries of high electricity prices are Hong Kong billionaires Michael Kadoorie and Li Ka-Shing.

While Qantas services sank and 9000 lost their jobs, chief executive Alan Joyce engineered the biggest transfer from the public money to a corporation in Australia’s history. This was the non-bailout bailout. Time for a rethink on corporate welfare. Qantas Smiles: shareholders and executives grin, customers and staff grit their

Now is the time to end the dangerous threat to basic freedoms and the rule of law that the Julian Assange persecution represents. The Albanese government has a critical role to play to do everything in its power to stop the extradition and end his punishment, Greg Barns writes.