Category: Michael West

Dan Andrews, Labor hero and enemy of the right, has announced his resignation as Victoria’s longest serving premier. What made him such a successful politician? Paul Strangio reports. 

A man at the centre of an infamous alt-right push to take over the NSW Young Nationals in 2018 has been unceremoniously dumped from the office of the first ever independent MP for Wagga Wagga, after Michael West Media informed him he had unwittingly hired an extremist.

It can’t be correct that a government-of-the-day can, by defunding its FOI apparatus, steals away a right given to us by Parliament to have timely access to information useful for scrutinising that very same government. Rex Patrick is taking his fight to the Full Bench of the Federal Court.

he Attorney-General keeps repeating that the powers he’s being asked to use to drop the prosecutions of David McBride and Richard Boyle can only be used in “exceptional circumstances”. But in saying that, he is committing a deceit on both the Parliament and the public.

NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey ignored pleas for further funding for the Natural Resources Commission, putting at risk the monitoring of deforestation and the protection of the koalas and other endangered species.

Rayo Withanage, the colourful entrepreneur behind a mysterious takeover bid for Santos, purports to command an empire of ‘world leading’ tech and corporate ventures. Callum Foote reports on the exploits of the man who bets for the Brunei royals.

Leaders from around the world are meeting in New York this week for the UN Climate Ambition Summit. The purpose is to check on progress towards a “more equitable renewable-energy based, climate-resilient global economy”. John Thwaites reports.

Hydrogen is being increasingly used as leverage to reignite the Australian gas network, with industry leaders attacking reforms reducing production and consumption. Rosco Jones reports.

The business forums of both major parties sell political access to corporate Australia, and they make a pretty penny doing so. Many of Australia’s largest companies are members and their events can raise hundreds of thousands in one night.

Big banks claiming to be ‘carbon neutral’ are anything but. The big four banks in Australia only account for a fraction of their emissions, with CBA offsetting a measly 4%

The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) chose to protect the legal fraternity over a NSW Health whistleblower left untrained and anxious at the tribunal bar table. Blowing the whistle cost her dearly.

The Labor government and the Greens have finally agreed to pass the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) bill. But how much will go to housing, and how much to fund managers?