Michael West

Time to make 'em pay! The big bludgers are the corporate tax dodgers - Michael West The first step to fix corporate tax dodging is to expose who pays and who doesn't pay their share. To that end, MWM is launching TAXDATA.

Launching #TAXDATA where you can find Australia's biggest 'lifters and leaners' with the tap of a keystroke

A co-pro with UTS and @jasonward-cictar.bsky.social
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Hold my beer. Uniparty votes down Senate gas inquiry - Michael West ACT Senator David Pocock's proposal for an inquiry into why gas companies pay less tax than beer drinkers voted down.

Beer drinkers pay more tax than gas giants, despite gas 5x the sales, but Uniparty votes down Senate inquiry call by Greens, indis and PHON.

That's donations for yous
#whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social
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Israel minister praises Penny Wong on Iran, Queensland speech ban - Michael West Israeli minister tells Zionist leaders that Australia's support for the Iran War is right, exhorts states to pursue Queensland's speech bans.

Obtained footage of Zionist meet with Israel FM:
Leibler - "Australia most Zionist community in world"
Sa'ar - "I want to praise .. Queensland" other states should follow Israel speech bans
#auspol @sstephanietrann.bsky.social
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Dwindling reserves. Fuel security politics hides the truth - Michael West With the consequences of fuel disruption severe, neither Labor nor the opposition are telling the truth about our dwindling fuel reserves.

The Uniparty can share the blame for Australia's fuel security. @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social delves into the politics and dissembling over petrol supply
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War, Oil and Australia’s Energy Future | The West Report Live ft Tim Buckley YouTube video by The West Report

YouTube Livestream at 11am with energy markets expert Tim Buckley. What does the war, or whatever Penny calls it, mean for Australia and the world - RE, inflation, rates, oil
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Mardi Gras marchers brutally assaulted by NSW Police - Michael West Last week's Mardi Gras march was marred by brutal assaults by NSW Police, with some marchers being physically dragged out of the parade.

Minns again. Pro-Palestinians again. Wendy Bacon interviews victims of the Mardi Gras police bashings by NSW Police.

(Wendy herself an arrested 78er)
#auspol #nswpol
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Private lenders, brokers and liquidators. It's a murky world. - Michael West Beware of insolvency practitioners with great finance deals. Kimberley Pearls tour operator Daniel Brown found out the hard way.

Beware of liquidators with great finance packages. Daniel Brown of cruise operator Kimberley Pearls found out the hard way @sstephanietrann.bsky.social
#auspol #finance
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One Man vs BHP’s Army of Lawyers | The West Report - Michael West David v Goliath. Simon Turner v BHP. A coal miner breaks his back at work. What follows is years of legal battles, redactions, and a courtroom process the public was never meant to fully see. We exam...

David v Goliath court battle. Coal miner Simon Turner v BHP & big coal. Muzzled, "wild accusations", no transcripts. Is this our 'system of justice'?
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Millions in tax-deductible donations to IDF, illegal settlements - Michael West JNF an Australian charity with $200 million in donations is ignoring international law, siphoning money to the IDF and illegal settlements

Another Australian charity found to fund the IDF and illegal settlements in Israel. This one #JNF - probably the biggest.

@sstephanietrann.bsky.social investigation

#auspol #ACNC
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Moral double vision as Australia heads to the Gulf - Michael West Australia claimed impotence over Gaza but is now sending military support to the US-Israel war in the Gulf. Hypocrisy, writes Andrew Brown

So now we send military to the Gulf. Why was Australia so 'cautious' over Gaza, now action heroes for US-Israel war against Iran? Andrew Brown on the double standard
#UAE #Iran #trump #auspol
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Turning Crisis Into Opportunity | The West Report | The West Report YouTube video by The West Report

There's no silver bullet. The Epstein Allies have blown it invading Iran. But there is a silver lining. We will have to derisk, speed up the energy transition from dependence on fossil fuel to RE
#auspol #Iran
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Plaudits to you Epstein Allies on regime change in Iran. They have replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with ... Ayatollah Khamenei!

Fuel crisis - Government’s playbook revealed - Michael West Rex Patrick obtained the government's Fuel Security crisis document on FOI. What happens when petrol prices from the Iran war rise too high?

Yes, there's a plan for fuel crisis. The Govt spent $150k trying to stop @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social FOI to get it. Here it is - published with link to worse case
#auspol #Iran
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The Light and the Hill - Michael West The Australian Labor Party has drifted from its historic purpose. What does Labor's retreat from reform mean for Australia?

"Power unused in the face of injustice is not restraint. It is a choice"

The Labor Party has drifted from its historic purpose, retreated from reform. Andrew Brown with the 1st in a series - what it means for Australia.
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International Women's Day. Never closer to equality, nor closer to losing it. - Michael West Women's rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty and public violence. IWD

"Women's rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty and public violence. This is not drift. It is design"

#IWD is tomorrow.

Very good analysis by Aleta Moriarty
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Trump's Blunder. Air wars don't work. Iran ignores the lessons of history - Michael West Donald Trump's air war on Iran ignores the lessons of history, writes Michael Pascoe. Look at Germany, Yogoslavia, Korea, Vietnam.

Trump's Blunder. Air wars don't work. US Israel war on Iran ignores the lessons of history, writes @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social
#auspol #iran
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Legislative harakiri. A rare win for transparency as FOI bill dead - Michael West The Government's attempt to limit transparency has been killed off. Widely condemned, the death of the FOI amendment bill is a good thing

Albo's 'transparency bill' was so bad Labor killed it themselves.

( @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social might have helped but can't say too much)
#auspol #FOI
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Refugees on the move as invasion of Iran takes its toll - Michael West While mainstream media wallows in the spectacle of a live-streamed war, refugees in the Middle East are yet again on the move to nowhere safe.

Psst, don't tell Pauline the US Israel wars she supports are causing another refugee crisis
#auspol #whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social #Iran
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International Relations and Iran ft Scott Burchill - MWM Live YouTube video by The West Report

YouTube livestream at 2pm with @IRanalyst Dr Scott Burchill. Lots to chat about. No holds-barred. 'Free flowing' on Australia, the US, Israel and the invasion of Iran
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Australia and the "Epstein Coalition". Invasion of Iran a disaster - Michael West It’s only Day Five of the war but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the US Israeli invasion of Iran is evident by now

"We are led by fools and sycophants ... it’s only day 5 of the war but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the US Israeli invasion of Iran is evident by now."
#auspol #trump #Iran
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Judge takes pity on BHP in case against injured coal miner - Michael West BHP has had almost an entire court case muzzled and a coal miner's case struck out without even filing a defence. Stephanie Tran reports.

Who said wailing doesn't work? BHP gets injured miner's case thrown out, docs suppressed - after they send him 'Court Book' he can't open on the night before the hearing
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"Pack of Mongrels". Politics beats extinction of Maugean Skate - Michael West A decision brief on protecting the threatened Maugean Skate shows that the Labor Government puts wildlife extinction second to politics.

Docs show Labor put politics ahead of species extinction in lead-up to election @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on the Maugean Skate
#auspol #FOI
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A Premier defied. NOT-Adelaide Writers' Week a smashing success - Michael West Constellation, the writer's week that rose from the ashes of cancelled Adelaide Writers' Festival has defied defying efforts to kill it

Packed venues. Free speech prevails. Murdoch & Malinauskas killed Adelaide Writers' Week, but 'Not-AWW' (sponsored by MWM) has gone off!
#auspol #whatsthescam #FreeSpeech
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War Drums Over Tehran | The West Report YouTube video by The West Report

In which we demolish the case for the illegal invasion of Iran being peddled by the patsies of the Epstein Regime
#auspol #Trump #EpsteinFiles
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Bondi Beach bounty - $5000 a day - Michael West Is public service pay too high? Head of Bondi Beach massacre inquiry Dennis Richardson jags $5,000 a day for 'independent report'.

Public service boss heading up Bondi Inquiry jags 5k a day for 'independent inquiry'
#whatsthescam @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social
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We’re going to need a bigger boat. Jim Chalmers' tax reform fishing not serious  - Michael West Treasurer Chalmers is floating tax reform balloons ahead of the May budget, like CGT, but he’s fighting the last war. The next one is nuclear.

Rightly, Jim Chalmers floats negative gearing and CGT reform, but with what's coming it won't be enough to fix budget and housing. Good read
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Chris Minns' stormtroopers. Guns for graffiti, silence for the dead - Michael West Chris Minns' NSW government is creating a policing unit of around 250 officers, prioritising hate crimes above other violence.

"This is what happens when policing follows pressure rather than principle." Andrew Brown on the politics of Chris Minns 'Rapid Response Unit'
#auspol #nswpol
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Case Muzzled. Court strikes out injured coal miner, backs BHP - Michael West BHP has won sweeping suppression orders against coal miner Simon Turner after a court threw out the miner's case.

Judge muzzles Simon Turner coalminer case against BHP - then throws it out. Court transcripts don't materialise.

Court says too bad, its fault of the foreign multinational they sold the transcription service to
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From Vietnam war to Gaza genocide. Where have all the unions gone? - Michael West Sixty years on from the union-led anti-Vietnam War marches, Australian union bosses are absent from protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Strange how the unions have been feeble on protesting Gaza Genocide, with a couple of commendable exeptions. @ajgardineresq.bsky.social reports #auspol #super
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The Big Four and the Death of Reform | The West Report YouTube video by The West Report

Did you ever get that sneaking suspicion - that tiny seed of doubt - that the politicians were not always acting in your interests?

Introducing "The System"
#auspol #CGT #ISISbrides
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