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  • 17 years of dithering and the money laundering Bill (AML-CTF) has been shovelled off to a committee for more ‘stakeholder engagement’ as lawyers, accountants and property developers are not happy.

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    High-end secrecy and money-laundering is dragging the property market higher

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  • Attn musos and entertainers! ACCC! Ticketek’s 8 companies to Singapore, thence Cayman Islands? Is anybody looking at this stuff?

    Is Ticketek fleecing Australian artists, audiences, for the Caymans and California?

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  • Tony’s back! Joe Hockey, Mark “Shredder” Dreyfus, Caymans Angus, Jame Hume and Tony Abbott. Who will win Scam of the Week in Australian politics and business?

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  • Are Australians paying through the roof for concert tickets? Josh checks out Dynamic Ticket Pricing where fans watch prices soar while they are trying to get set #greenday #oasis #livenation #ticketmaster

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  • Bridget McKenzie had a good idea – bust up Qantas and Virgin – but quickly got hammered, pulled it, and blamed it on Labor. But it was good! Competition regulation is huge for Australia. #coles #woolies #ACCC

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  • Penny Wong is deeply concerned as Australia ducks vote at the UN. Money laundering bill getting shakey. The redoubtable scamster PwC, Suicide Royal Commission antics and antisemitism inquiry #auspol

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  • The Big Business Lobby is back bossing the Government again. Should we be listening? Business Council of Australia – Australia’s richest union #CFMEU #economy #labor

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  • Surely it’s not the same people hit by the housing crisis who also have to pay the $50B, and rising every year, superannuation lurks and perks for wealthy boomers? That can’t be right!

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    Citations:

    1. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report on welfare expenditure:
    – https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-welfare/welfare-expenditure

    2. MacroBusiness article on housing supply:
    – https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2023/09/why-more-supply-will-never-fix-the-housing-market/

    3. Chart on housing:
    – https://x.com/GrogsGamut/status/1835097129364439247

    4. Michael West article on SMSF and federal budget tax measures:
    – https://www.michaelwest.com.au/great-smsf-federal-budget-tax-measures/

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  • They just had to host their Weapons Fair in the middle of Melbourne in the middle of the You-Know-What in Gaza. It’s a $20m PR stunt by Jacinta “Pinochet” Allen & Victoria Police

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    Inside the Land Forces rort – https://michaelwest.com.au/the-lucrative-charity-yes-charity-running-the-land-forces-weapons-fair/

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  • Which party does best on the economy, Labor or Liberal? We check our Treasurer Measurer #gdp #inflation #australia #economy

    Story here: https://michaelwest.com.au/treasurer-measurer-exploding-the-liberal-election-myth-of-superior-economic-managers/

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  • A brawl over the economy! And Bill Shorten, John Howard, Jim Chalmers, the RBA’s Michele Bullock and more … like the epic Carbon Capture & Storage Scam!

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  • America and Australia have a lot in common when it comes to double standards and money in politics. We chat with Donald Trump’s 3x biographer David Cay Johnston

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  • Do they have your face? Facial recognition is at the cutting edge of privacy invasion. Josh checks out Clearview AI and another loss for privacy

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  • Best not use the T word here … but are you paying insurance against extreme acts of political violence? Bc there is a secret $14B pool for which nary a claim has been made in 20 years!
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  • The battle lines have just been drawn for the Election: Coalition plans for tax cuts funded by junking Labor housing and other policy. Is the shift from major parties entrenched or will it be reversed?

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    Crisis, what (housing) crisis? Dutton to scrap 30,000 homes.

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  • Trucking industry whistleblower Roxanne Mysko has been sacked, sued and even raided by police. An arrest warrant was out for her this week when, distressed, she tried to front court on Zoom.

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    Story: https://michaelwest.com.au/as-trucking-fatalities-rise-the-whistleblower-finds-herself-under-arrest/

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  • Byron Bay Bluesfest is shutting after 36 years. Another blow to live music, the arts. Why? We follow the money

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  • Peter Stuvesant bought New York for a few beads. The Trojans caved to Greece for a wooden horse but Scomo and Albo said “Hold our beer” #aukus 2.0 #Raygun

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    Story: https://michaelwest.com.au/forced-posture-has-australia-already-ceded-military-control-to-the-us/

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  • What’s the scam with the Linda Reynolds spectacle, sorry, lawsuit? How about AUKUS 2.0 and Paul Keating’s latest call, or the great new Terror Alert?

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  • Peter Dutton, Rex Airlines, the Minister for SportsBet , Gladys Berejiklian and good old PwC vye for Australia’s most prestigious award, the hallowed Scam of the Week!

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  • Rex Airlines bites the dust as Qantas and Virgin lick their lips. We debunk the privatisation myth. If we are going to splash cash on this, take a stake!

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  • “Whining little crybabies”. That’s the big business lobby when it comes to tax reform. We check out the latest Senate shenanigans. Oh the tears, the tears .. but the Leigh laws look like they just *might* come in next month

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  • Restore credibility to government and junk the legalised corruption – the reason for political payments (donations) no longer exists.

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  • The IDF killling of Zomi Frankcom and 6 World Kitchen Central aid workers is about to get a whitewash by the media and the Australian government’s “Binskin Inquiry” report #gaza #israel #palestine

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    Story here: https://michaelwest.com.au/whitewash-whats-the-scam-with-the-binskin-inquiry-into-the-murder-of-zomi-frankcom/

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  • Kickbacks and bikies? How about a $2.5B wage heist – coalminers dudded by a corporate alliance of unions, coal corporations, labour hire mobs, insurers and, yes, government entities. The cover-up is on!
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    First story here: https://michaelwest.com.au/black-hole-cfmeu-governments-bhp-black-coal-giants-collude-in-2-5b-worker-wage-swindle/

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  • Westy talks about why Australia is so expensive. Will they bust up #Coles and #woolworths? Should they? We take a look at the politics of #supermarkets inquiries. #accc

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  • A government of ‘criminals’, a ‘tyranny’ robbing Australians via renewable energy, says right wing evangelist Tucker Carlson, who was out here spruiking coal and half truths for mining billionaire Clive Palmer. Hey look in your own backyard pal! #immigration #housing #coal

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    Story: https://michaelwest.com.au/the-ipa-tucker-carlson-and-murdoch-media-plot-to-keep-coal-and-gas-burning/

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  • Westy talks about calls to bust up the corporate watchdog and the govt’s golden goose ASIC following a damning Senate inquiry calling for its abolition. And the politics with #Labor #Liberal #Greens #independents

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  • Official investigates complaint about herself, finds nothing. Dept of Vet Affairs recommends yoga as a good fix, gives PwC $73m to avoid a Royal Commission. Vets recommend NACC. Dan Andrews says DVA like a bad insurance experience.

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