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Forking out $1.2bn to build a hospital then flogging it for a dollar must surely make the NSW government the most hopeless dealmaker in Australian history. Then letting the buyers sell it – along with another 41 hospitals to the Cayman Islands – puts the federal government in a nearby league. The Story: https://michaelwest.com.au/the-nsw-government-the-feds-the-caymans-and-australias-worst-privatisation-unveiled/ Patreon: […]

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The Parliamentary Inquiry into War Powers heard the pros and cons of a parliamentary vote to go to war versus the status quo, that is, the Prime Minister alone can make the call. The Story: https://michaelwest.com.au/war-powers-inquiry-just-as-britain-has-the-gurkhas-the-americans-have-us/ Reform, say vets who know the horrors of war, yet most politicians say status quo Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheWestReport Merch: https://lonelykidsclub.com/new/michael+west […]

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It’s a post-Christmas feast. We are serving up the Top 40 Tax Dodgers, the crème de la crème of Australia’s biggest and meanest tax tricksters. The Story: https://michaelwest.com.au/foreign-fossil-fuel-juggernauts-dominate-the-annual-mwm-top-40-tax-dodgers-chart/3 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/

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Scott Morrison approved tens of billions in foreign takeover deals after secretly being appointed Treasurer last year, compromising Australia’s national interest. The Story: https://michaelwest.com.au/a-royal-commission-into-scott-morrison-he-sold-off-the-farm-in-secret/ 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/

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Labor is staring down hysterical fossil fuel threats to shunt its Energy Price Relief Plan through the Senate this week. The result will be just as big a relief for gas and coal companies as consumers. The Story: https://michaelwest.com.au/albos-energy-relief-bill-a-big-relief-for-the-fossil-fuel-giants/ Mining lobby tricks government with its big taxpayer fairytale, swaps Deloitte for EY Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheWestReport Merch: […]

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It’s the makeover of all makeovers, the new attempt to soften Peter Dutton’s image. 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/

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After years of running straight vitriol and opinion masked as news, Dan Andrews was returned as the Premier of Victoria leaving us to ask if Murdoch and the commercial media is losing their influence on swaying elections. 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/

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Michael covers the recent plagiarism scandal involving Sky New’s lifting works from our ABC. Story: https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/gleeso/101626086 Lifters and leaners: energy giants and Rupert bludging on tax again, big banks and miners pay their dues 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/

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The media covered the firebombing of Jordan Shanks (@friendlyjordies ), though they doxed him. Then the story was pretty much ignored in this morning’s press. The Story: https://michaelwest.com.au/terrorist-attack-friendlyjordies-jordan-shanks-firebombed-house/ 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/

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We expose five of the gas lobby’s big lies and the manipulation of governments and media which lends them licence to profiteer at the expense of every Australian. Story: https://michaelwest.com.au/fossil-fibs-how-the-gas-lobby-gets-away-with-cooking-the-planet-rooking-its-customers/ 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/

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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ is bringing back the government-owned State Electricity Commission to reverse the decades-long privatisation of Australia’s energy market. Some media outlets are ramping faux outrage whilst cooler heads know if done right, it should prove wrong long espoused benefits of neoliberal economics. 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/

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Albanese government out-Barnabys-Barnaby with a big Budget gift for fossil fuel donors to build the Middle Arm port and petrochemicals project just 3km from the Darwin suburb of Palmerston. Michael West reports. The Story: https://michaelwest.com.au/government-delivers-barnaby-joyce-election-promise-for-port-petrochemicals-gas-subsidies/ 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/

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All’s not fair at the warfare Expo, where taxpayer-funded arms merchants hobnob with military types by invitation only. “Aggressive” journalists not allowed. Banned: MWM too ‘aggressive’ for the merchants of death but we won’t shut up What do you think the arms trade is, a charity? Actually yes, that’s what it is It’s the same […]

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ClubsNSW is dragging a dying man, Troy Stolz through the courts, and media identity Friendlyjordies too, but its own house is hardly in order. Michael West reports. Pokies Thuggery: ClubsNSW lobbyists hammer critics, hide their own dirty laundry 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/

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The day has finally arrived: an Australian government today made good on its commitment to legislate an integrity watchdog, the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC). But there is one major bone of contention … secrecy. Michael West reports on the spectre of a Secret National Anti-Corruption Commission (SNACC). The Story: https://michaelwest.com.au/labor-delivers-national-anti-corruption-commission-nacc-with-secret-hearings/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheWestReport Merch: https://lonelykidsclub.com/new/michael+west Facebook: […]

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As Queen Elizabeth is laid to rest, only one living person remains who can match her for length of service at the head of a family firm. And while Rupert Murdoch’s publications have caused the royal family plenty of grief, there are many similarities between him and the late monarch. The Stories: https://michaelwest.com.au/queen-elizabeth-and-king-rupert-seven-decades-of-exercising-soft-power-and-hard/ Is this […]

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There are still many questions surrounding Scott Morrison’s ill-starred time at the helm of Tourism Australia, writes Jommy Tee. Newly released documents confirm KPMG did not undertake a probity audit in 2005 into the assessment and evaluation of shortlisted tenderers for Tourism Australia’s advertising contracts. The Story: https://michaelwest.com.au/did-tourism-australia-really-get-a-kpmg-report-or-was-it-scomos-imagination/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheWestReport Merch: https://lonelykidsclub.com/new/michael+west Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michaelwest.journo Insta: […]

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The Labor government announced that the $18m charity endorsed by the Governor-General, funded by the taxpayer, headed by a low-profile businessman, and with only the vaguest mandate, would be scrapped. But will David Hurley survive this? No future: Governor-General’s charity knocked on the head Royal Favours: pipe and slippers time for David Hurley and Scott […]

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Australia prides itself on freedom of expression, yet we have the most draconian laws in the Western world. How can we uphold a free press when defamation law is having a chilling effect on our media and threatens to undermine the very foundations of investigative journalism? Filmed on Friday, 12th Aug 2022 at the King’s […]

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Australia is awash with dirty money. Go undercover with financial crime expert Nathan Lynch as he delves deep inside this hidden world to explain how dark money has infected the lives of ordinary people and tainted Australian democracy. (Recorded on August 11th 2022 for the Canberra Writers Festival.) Click here for Nathan’s Book.  

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Forking out billions in subsidies and grants to support gas, and the money is used to sue farmers and muzzle journalists. Story: https://michaelwest.com.au/gas-lies-as-super-profits-ramp-up-so-too-does-the-fossil-fuel-propaganda-war/ (backgrounder) 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/

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Private equity vultures KKR are close to pitching a $20bn takeover bid for Australia’s largest private healthcare group, Ramsay Health Care which could see most of Australia’s private health system being controlled in foreign tax havens. The Story: https://michaelwest.com.au/another-72-australian-hospitals-off-to-a-tax-haven-whats-the-scam/ 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/

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Murdoch’s nuclear spin is one big grift and distraction for fossil fuels. 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/

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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/

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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 teeth Qantas on hold – […]

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The electricity market has been suspended, blackouts loom, power prices soar – along with corporate profits – and fingers are being rudely pointed. What’s the scam? It’s a complicated scam, a suite of sophisticated scams actually The Story: https://michaelwest.com.au/aemo-electricity-nem-aer-whats-the-scam/ 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/

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There are signs that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese seems more interested in dealing with the plight of Julian Assange than was the Morrison government. UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has to decide whether or not to sign off on Assange’s extradition to the US by the middle of this month. Albanese must act now, writes […]

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