Tag: Michael West Media

Media

Could ‘unreliable’ be the new normal for energy users? – Michael West

Is this news or “blackmail” trying to get the government to subsidize an already failing coal-fired power station. Any subsidy today should be a foot on the accelerator of renewables.

The Fossil Fuel Industry is promoting this media and it comes across as extortion particularly when already obsolete power plants are promoted as necessary because “renewables can’t do the job”. This sort of negative fearmongering argument was never posited when coal-fired stations were being built way back when we were still lighting candles and burning wood.

“Then we might think that we’re fine, we might let Eraring go, thinking the worst case scenario hasn’t happened, therefore it can’t happen.” Eraring, located south of Newcastle, is Australia’s largest coal-fired power station and biggest single emitter of greenhouse gases.

Source: Could ‘unreliable’ be the new normal for energy users? – Michael West

Informed Comment

Did Commbank, corporate cops and senior journos collude to take down bank victims advocate? – Michael West

CBA, ASIC, Matt Comyn

However, much like the looking-glass world of Eduardo Galeano, reality appeared to reflect the exact opposite of that narrative as Saul Holt KC, acting for the defence, methodically devastated Ms Keys’ credibility and, with sparing, yet unerringly precise brushstrokes, illustrated the absolute incompetence of Mr Miller’s investigation, as reported by MWM on Wednesday last.

Source: Did Commbank, corporate cops and senior journos collude to take down bank victims advocate? – Michael West

Informed Comment

Playing chicken to the detriment of democracy and cost to the taxpayer – Michael West

What's the scam

Far too often, government departments and its agencies deny Freedom of Information requests without good reason. It leads to unnecessary delays, costs, and the withholding of information that the public deserves to know. What’s the scam?

Source: Playing chicken to the detriment of democracy and cost to the taxpayer – Michael West

Banks

Co-purchasing homes flagged as fix for housing woes – Michael West

What owning your own home has come to in Australia. This is a partnership offer to drive up the cost of housing, or a 3rd party acting in combination like a Muslim bank who can’t charge interest because they are unlicensed. Are they investment partners really and/or landlords who charge rent instead? Something current banks aren’t prepared to do. What they are saying is go find a surrogate parent or angel, it’s not our problem.

Would-be homebuyers teaming up with private investors to stump up a deposit has been floated as a possible model to ease Australia’s housing crisis.

Source: Co-purchasing homes flagged as fix for housing woes – Michael West

Australian Scams

Google Australia pays pittance in tax, pays media moguls instead – Michael West

Digital Media Bargaining Code, Google Australia

Taxpayers stump up for “man shot in buttocks” journalism as Google Australia pays a pittance in tax again thanks to “world first media reforms”. Michael West reports on a joke.

Source: Google Australia pays pittance in tax, pays media moguls instead – Michael West

Wages

Wages and jobs data to take centre stage – Michael West

Talk about being sold a fantasy

“Workers have enjoyed larger sums of 4%”! What a load of bullshit they have “suffered” by not keeping up with inflation and reducing what little savings they may have had doing precarious jobs. Meanwhile, business has enjoyed double-digit profits and paid less tax than the average middle-class family. Michael West seems to be selling a very colored story. One you generally see peddled by our mainstream Murdoch and Costello media. The truth of the matter is workers and their families are paying for the inflated profits of our biggest businesses.

While workers have enjoyed larger sums landing in their bank accounts, extremely high inflation has robbed Australians of a real wage rise.

Source: Wages and jobs data to take centre stage – Michael West

Informed Comment

Kathryn Campbell – from RoboDebt ignominy to plum Defence job with the PM’s help – Michael West

Kathryn Campbell

“Many who suffered RoboDebt are getting $350 per week while Campbell is receiving $17,100 per week. Every day she sits in Defence is a day of insult to those who suffered from the RoboDebt scheme. Rightly, there is anger in the community. Albanese must act.” (MWM)

Kathryn Campbell is well known in the parklands and on the footpaths where some of Australia’s most disadvantaged live. Witnesses at the RoboDebt Royal Commission made her the face of the governance scandal. But in stark contrast to those affected by RoboDebt, she now sits in a plum job inside the Department of Defence on her old $900K salary. Former senator Rex Patrick examines the ins and outs.

Source: Kathryn Campbell – from RoboDebt ignominy to plum Defence job with the PM’s help – Michael West

Informed Comment

Robodebt Cancer – has our public service become the secret service? – Michael West

On her majesty's secret service

The Robodebt saga was not the Public Service’s finest moment. The recent release of the National Cabinet minutes confirms that the problems of secrecy, obfuscation and ignoring legal advice are widespread. Rex Patrick explains.

Source: Robodebt Cancer – has our public service become the secret service? – Michael West

Informed Comment

World Press Freedom Day! But for Julian Assange, David McBride, where is the freedom? – Michael West

Julian Assange

If only the media would cover the persecution of Julian Assange with the same the same zeal as the wedding of shock-jock Kyle Sandilands; and the controversial attendance of Albo. At this time, when Jackie-O turned up late to the wedding, Michael West reports on World Press Freedom Day.

Source: World Press Freedom Day! But for Julian Assange, David McBride, where is the freedom? – Michael West

ALP Government,

WA Carbon Fiasco: Pilbara plant to blow more CO2 than Safeguard Mechanism will save – Michael West

Murujuga National Park

Is the ALP gaslighting us with their “Safeguard Mechanism”?

Add Chevron’s carbon capture disaster to Woodside’s Browse Basin climate bomb and now the Perdaman fertiliser plant in the Pilbara and Western Australia is going to burn a giant hole in the Labor government’s Safeguard Mechanism. Callum Foote reports.

Source: WA Carbon Fiasco: Pilbara plant to blow more CO2 than Safeguard Mechanism will save – Michael West

Informed Comment

Robodebt Cover-Up: documents on repairing Australian Public Service buried – Michael West

What's the scam

Under FOI, I requested Commissioner Woolcott’s briefing, minutes and talking points associated with the March 8 bureaucratic talk fest. Woolcott, a Coalition appointment (and former staffer to Andrew Peacock and Chief of Staff to Alexander Downer) retires in 4 months, has refused access to the documents he holds, claiming it’s not in the public interest to release them.

Source: Robodebt Cover-Up: documents on repairing Australian Public Service buried – Michael West

Informed Comment

AUKUS submarines “nation building” says Admiral. No they’re not, says Rex Patrick – Michael West

AUKUS submarines

The Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Mark Hammond, has proclaimed the AUKUS submarine program is a national building endeavour when, in fact, it’s quite the opposite. Rex Patrick pulls apart the Admiral’s claim.

Source: AUKUS submarines “nation building” says Admiral. No they’re not, says Rex Patrick – Michael West

Informed Comment

Rex Patrick on AUKUS submarines: “an astonishingly bad deal” – Michael West

Rex Patrick on AUKUS submarines: “an astonishingly bad deal”

The Defence Department has outdone itself with the AUKUS submarine project. In Paul Keating’s words, “it’s the worst deal in all history”. That’s not just because of the staggering $386 billion price tag, but because of the form the program is to take. Former submariner Rex Patrick looks at the most astonishingly irrational part of the announcement.

Source: Rex Patrick on AUKUS submarines: “an astonishingly bad deal” – Michael West

Informed Comment

Rex v the A-G: will Labor keep Liberal dirt under the carpet? – Michael West

Mark Dreyfus, FOI

In opposition, Federal Labor spoke up long and loud in favour of government transparency.  Now they are in government, their voice on this has gone rather quiet. 

There’s already been quite a bit of backsliding once Labor bums got comfortable again in ministerial chairs. One thing’s for sure now; there’s now a court case on-foot that goes directly to the credibility of Mark Dreyfus as much as it goes to the credibility of government. I’d like to think he’ll back transparency, but after he abandoned whistleblowers Richard Boyle and David McBride, I’m just not sure. We’ll find out soon.  

Can a Prime Minister use a Cabinet reshuffle to sweep government dirt under the carpet? Rex Patrick reports on rorts and transparency.

Source: Rex v the A-G: will Labor keep Liberal dirt under the carpet? – Michael West

Energy

Poles and wires super-profits causing energy price spikes, and foreign takeovers

On average, excluding publicly owned Essential Energy, network providers are earning a 13-14% super-profit across the east coast and South Australia.

By contrast, Essential Energy, an NSW Government-owned corporation that services rural NSW and parts of southern Queensland, charges no super-profits whatsoever actually taking a 1% haircut on return on investment according to Orme’s analysis.

Another offender is Ausgrid, again formed in 2011 when the NSW sold off its network assets. 

SAPN, or South Australian Power Networks, sold by the South Australian government to controlling shareholder Hong Kong-based Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings, and Australian investment fund Spark Infrastructure charges a 15.5% super-profit to its customers.

Since our report was published last October, no action has been taken to stem supernormal monopoly network profits.

 

Source: Poles and wires super-profits causing energy price spikes, and foreign takeovers

Informed Opinion

I just want a Ferrari, sorry, a nuclear submarine, no matter the cost – Michael West

Alan Moir on the submarine deal

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has just committed Australia to spending $368 billion on somewhere between three and five second-hand US Virginia Class submarines, and a follow on build of eight next generation British AUKUS nuclear submarines. It’s a strategic blunder, writes former submariner Rex Patrick, and it’s not even going to happen the way the PM has suggested.

Source: I just want a Ferrari, sorry, a nuclear submarine, no matter the cost – Michael West

Informed Opinion

Michael West Media – investigative journalists – always independent

“Let’s drop this now”: calls rise for Albo to ask Joe Biden for release of Assange in tonight’s AUKUS talks

 Michael West | Mar 13, 2023 There will be no better opportunity than now for Anthony Albanese to ask US President Joe Biden for the release of Julian Assange. Michael West reports on the Belmarsh Tribunal and calls for the release of Australia’s number one political prisoner.

Source: Michael West Media – investigative journalists – always independent

Informed Comment

How PR and the fog of corporate disinformation has governments paying to burn the planet – Michael West

Public relations is at the core of coal and gas industry influence which has governments actually incentivising the burning of the planet. Grant Ennis, who has just released the book Dark PR, explores how corporate disinformation campaigns allow this to happen.

Source: How PR and the fog of corporate disinformation has governments paying to burn the planet – Michael West

Informed Comment

What’s the scam with Nine’s “Panel of Experts”? Red alert, it’s ASPI – Michael West

Privatised Corporate Media has become the business of “creating and not reporting news”. Facts and their verification fail to even begin to be required in favor of imagination. Profit is the goal and ratings the means to achieve it in a market where the money larely flows from a minority at the top down and not from the majority at the bottom up. Peter Costello has pivoted Ch9 to the Murdoch’s business model to hopefully attract a larger portion of that cash flow from the usual suspects. Red Alert is just an example of new and  normalised sensationalism and propaganda sold to us as news.

The backlash over Nine Entertainment’s “Reds Under the Beds” campaign continues as they defend their stories by pointing to “panel of experts”. Who are these experts?

Source: What’s the scam with Nine’s “Panel of Experts”? Red alert, it’s ASPI – Michael West

Informed Comment

Stuart Robert – loyal Robodebt slayer – Michael West

Stuart Robert at the Robodebt RC

In his appearance at the Robodebt Royal Commission yesterday, Stuart Robert wants us to believe that not only was he the one that finally put a stop to the illegalities of income averaging, but that he knew it was wrong all along. However, the pesky Westminster system stopped him from speaking out.

Source: Stuart Robert – loyal Robodebt slayer – Michael West

Media

Media caps off a week of super dishonesty over super. What’s the scam? – Michael West

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The whining in corporate media over Treasurer Jim Chalmers modest changes to superannuation has been at fever pitch all week. What’s the scam?

Source: Media caps off a week of super dishonesty over super. What’s the scam? – Michael West

Informed Comment

Robodebt and transparency failures: is the rule of law optional for the PM’s office? – Michael West

 

Robodebt

The Robodebt Commission lays bare a lack of regard for the rule of law among both ministers and public servants.

On 30 November last year, when the House of Representatives was censuring former Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Mr Albanese rose and stated with force:

The fact is that our democracy is precious. There’s no room for complacency … we can’t take our democracy for granted.

Yet his own office is engaged in undermining the rule of law; a foundation for democracy. If the Prime Minister doesn’t act in this instance, he’s no better than the man that was censured on that day.

Source: Robodebt and transparency failures: is the rule of law optional for the PM’s office? – Michael West

Australian Government

Rex Patrick’s FOI lifts the lid on Future Fund’s China investments – Michael West

Future Fund, China

Values Based Capitalism in Australia

Party politicians spend their entire life on the back bench keeping their ideas to themselves, biding their time until they become ministers. Chalmers is there now; he has the means to turn his beliefs into action.

Source: Rex Patrick’s FOI lifts the lid on Future Fund’s China investments – Michael West

Informed Opinion

Rex Patrick: put PwC top of blacklist for government procurement payments – Michael West

PwC

Big 4 consultancy PwC has been caught red-handed with partners leaking confidential information, obtained while advising the Federal government on combating tax avoidance, so their multinational clients could avoid tax. As the government ponders its response, Rex Patrick argues it’s time to introduce a procurement black list to deal with corporate cowboys.

Source: Rex Patrick: put PwC top of blacklist for government procurement payments – Michael West

Informed Comment

Rex Hex: PM’s office backflips, refuses to release Albo’s diaries – Michael West

What's the scam?

Now an explanation is needed

After telling Rex Patrick his PM’s Diary FOI request would be processed for $1,344, and after Rex paid the deposit, the Prime Minister’s Office has backflipped and is now refusing to process the request for 29 pages on the grounds that doing so “would substantially and unreasonable interfere with the performance of the [Prime] Minister’s functions”. What’s the scam?

Source: Rex Hex: PM’s office backflips, refuses to release Albo’s diaries – Michael West

ALP Government,

The Secret Diary of a Prime Minister – Michael West

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, diary, FOI, Rex Patrick

Has MWM and Rex Patrick little or nothing to write about blaming the ALP and the recently elected PM Albanese’s government for not having his finger equally attending to every change on their list of promises? Is Albo the head of this government expected to be the stamp licker, bookkeeper and office janitor as well as the Party and Country’s leader? He’s already changed the direction of the country in the eyes of the world and is turning the ship. He may not be Gough but then MWM and Patrick seem to have taken on the cloak of nitpickers for nitpicking sake alone to keep up their image of “we’ll keep the bastards honest”. Whinging isn’t a substitute for criticism just a haggle over the list of minutia priorities.

In my case they’ve told me my request will cost an outrageous $1,344 to process 179 days displayed in weekly view – that is to process 29 pages of diary. I say that’s ‘outrageous’ having personally made more than 300 FOIs request over the past 5 years and never been charged that sort of money, even for far more voluminous requests.

Transparency builds confidence in our political leaders. Attempting to bury or stall an FOI diary request just does the opposite. It promotes the idea that the Prime Minster is disingenuous in his claims that his Government is transparent, and it erodes people trust in him”.

And when the mud starts flying about, some of it inevitably sticks.

Source: The Secret Diary of a Prime Minister – Michael West

Informed Comment

Australia’s industrial makeover ramps up – Michael West

Worry is always the decision-makers’ burden when moving forward and doing things “right”. Unintended mistakes tend to occur but are often politicized by the opposition, and oh boy, did we see that with the”Pink Bats” scandal. But here is the difference the difference ” Robodebt” The NBN and Asylum seeker deaths were wrong, Yes. one was right the other totally wrong on human and AI grounds and none were accomplished overnight. Pink Bats couldn’t be predicted to have 5 deaths the other three could be guaranteed to be system failures on a grand scale. .

The Chubb review shows there’s integrity in the carbon credit system designed to support decarbonisation, but Ms Constable is concerned about the proposed rapid changes for the regulator. “It takes time to build expertise and get things running smoothly, so we’ll be watching to make sure implementation matches the ambition.”

Source: Australia’s industrial makeover ramps up – Michael West

Informed Comment

Josh and Scott deliver Goldman Sachs the giant vampire squid a giant quid – Michael West

Goldman Sachs

Josh Frydenberg as treasurer and Scott Morrison as secret treasurer made a motza for foreign vulture funds in last year’s takeover boom and mega-sell-off of Australian assets. Who knew what when, and why are we flogging essential monopoly services to cuff-linked tax crooks? Callum Foote and Michael West report.

Source: Josh and Scott deliver Goldman Sachs the giant vampire squid a giant quid – Michael West

Australia

Dumb Ways to Buy: Defence “shambles” unveiled – former submariner and senator Rex Patrick – Michael West

ADF, defence spending

“The AUKUS nuclear submarine project will bleed the Australian Defence Force white”, on top of the billions in annual Defence spending waste

Costly failure after failure

Defence procurement is a shambles and national expenditure disgrace. Project after project blows out in cost and schedule, with some projects being cancelled all together.

Every year the Auditor-General releases a Major Projects Report into Defence’s major projects. The most recent report covered 21 projects worth $58 billion dollars. Across those 21 projects, there had been $18.5 billion in cost increases – that’s 18,500 million dollars for those that can’t easily grapple with the large amounts of money with which Defence plays.

Across those 21 projects the schedule slippage was 405 months – 34 years. A number of projects, excluding the future submarine project for the moment, have either been binned or did not meet capability requirements. They are:

  • The Multiple-Role Helicopter program – $3.8 billion wasted.
  • The Sky Guardian medium altitude long endurance attack drone program – $1.3 billion
    wasted.
  • The Army’s Battle Management system – a billion wasted.
  • The Spartan battlefield airlift aircraft – $1.4 billion wasted.
  • The Tiger helicopter program – another billion wasted.

That’s eight and a half billion dollars of taxpayers’ money just thrown away. That’s eight billion dollars of new capability our brave front-line Defence Force members don’t have.

Source: Dumb Ways to Buy: Defence “shambles” unveiled – former submariner and senator Rex Patrick – Michael West

Informed Comment

Kevin from Santos loves public hand-outs, loathes tax, lashes Labor’s little gas price limit as “Soviet” – Michael West

Santos, Rupert Murdoch

Kevin Gallagher was paid $37m over five years, more than Santos booked in profits, while they paid zero tax, raked in $20bn income from government gas permits, and never complained once about the $50bn of public subsidies to the fossil fuel sector. What’s the scam?

Source: Kevin from Santos loves public hand-outs, loathes tax, lashes Labor’s little gas price limit as “Soviet” – Michael West

ALP Government,

Rex Patrick: Government credibility on the line amid Boyle, McBride whistleblower trials – Michael West

Whistleblower laws, David McBride, Richard Boyle

Relentless prosecution of whistleblowers David McBride and Richard Boyle may damage the credibility of Australia’s government on the world stage, writes Rex Patrick. Whistleblower protection laws need urgent reform.

Source: Rex Patrick: Government credibility on the line amid Boyle, McBride whistleblower trials – Michael West

Informed Comment

Informed Comment- Michael West Media- A new state power!

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.

A new state power!

Media

Seven boss Kerry Stokes defends bankrolling Roberts-Smith in spray against ‘scumbag’ journalists – Michael West

Afghan war crimes

Kerry Stokes, and Lachlan Murdoch both regard the “press” as scumbags” Peter Costello remains behind the curtain. Isn’t that the “pot calling the kettle…”

Why is billionaire Kerry Stokes funding the media defamation action of Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith against Nine Newspapers? He gave the reason to Callum Foote, directly and in person at today’s Seven annual meeting.

Source: Seven boss Kerry Stokes defends bankrolling Roberts-Smith in spray against ‘scumbag’ journalists – Michael West

Informed Comment

Lifters and leaners: energy giants and Rupert bludging on tax again, big banks and miners pay their dues – Michael West

ATO Corporate Tax Transparency Report

The schism between the lifters and leaners in corporate Australia has deepened. BHP, Rio and the banks are tipping in massive tax while tax paid by fossil fuel giants remains paltry, abjectly failing to merit a social licence to operate in Australia. Callum Foote peruses the latest tax data.

Source: Lifters and leaners: energy giants and Rupert bludging on tax again, big banks and miners pay their dues – Michael West

Informed Comment

The Perfect Slime: Scott Morrison’s slippery Sports Rorts report just the fix for Bridget McKenzie – Michael West

Bridget McKenzie

It’s a Sports Rorts whitewash. Scott Morrison’s former chief-of-staff and top bureaucrat Philip Gaetjens fortuitously found “no evidence” of pork barrelling by Senator Bridget McKenzie. Rex Patrick on how disappearing documents and political double-speak converged for an artful cover-up.

Source: The Perfect Slime: Scott Morrison’s slippery Sports Rorts report just the fix for Bridget McKenzie – Michael West

Informed Opinion

Prescription CheckTheFactsicillin: $8bn Medicare fraud exhibits symptoms of Hyperbolizosis – Michael West

fraudMedicare

Editors at Nine Entertainment and the ABC have been diagnosed with Acute Journo’s Ear Syndrome and possible Craniorectal Inversion following reports of an $8 billion Medicare fraud. Callum Foote reports.

Source: Prescription CheckTheFactsicillin: $8bn Medicare fraud exhibits symptoms of Hyperbolizosis – Michael West

corporate impunity, Corporate Tax Evasion, Corporate Welfare

A bunch of shifting bastards: how Big Tech goes small on tax – Michael West

Microsoft, tax avoidance

How do multinationals like Microsoft get away with paying so little tax? They deliberately wipe out their profits in high-tax countries such as Australia. Callum Foote reports on the global tax avoidance structure of the tech giant.

Source: A bunch of shifting bastards: how Big Tech goes small on tax – Michael West

Informed Comment

A sickening thought: medical fund secrecy is a corruption incubator – Michael West

MRFF, NHMRC

Secrecy around a huge $20bn fund for government grants, Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), makes it a corruption incubator: Rex Patrick

Let the light shine

The MRFF is an important public health initiative. It involves the expenditure of very large amounts of taxpayers’ money. The public have a right to examine the processes used in the awarding of grants and watch over the execution of the program, especially after grants have been awarded.

Those charged with managing the MRFF are likely to perform better when they know they are being watched. Those being watched are less likely to engage in malfeasance, misfeasance or wrongdoing. Conflicts of interest and failures of governance and process would be exposed, and indeed avoided because of the prospect of scrutiny.

The people at the Department and the National Health and Medical Research Council don’t seem to agree. They’re quite happy running a corruption incubator. But they’re about to be given a dose of transparency reality.

Source: A sickening thought: medical fund secrecy is a corruption incubator – Michael West

Informed Comment

Michael West Media – What do you think the arms trade is, a charity? Actually yes, that’s what it is

What do you think the arms trade is, a charity? Actually yes, that’s what it is

All’s not fair at the warfare Expo, where taxpayer-funded arms merchants hobnob with military types by invitation only. “Aggressive” journalists not allowed. Persona non grata Callum Foote reports on Land Forces 2022, Australia’s biggest War Fair.

Source: Michael West Media – investigative journalists – always independent

Coal

Beyond the Vales: towering profits and squalid PR tactics at the twilight of the coal boom – Michael West

Greenpeace propaganda, fossil fuels

“Extremely investor friendly” is how the latest fossil fuel buyer describes Australia. Along with the twilight of the coal era with its astronomical profits has come the rise of squalid public relations tactics. Zacharias Szumer investigates the case of Liechtenstein-based coal trader Sev.en Global Investments, its billionaire owner Pavel Tykač and Sev.en’s propaganda associates.

Source: Beyond the Vales: towering profits and squalid PR tactics at the twilight of the coal boom – Michael West

ALP Government,

NACC or SNACC? Labor delivers its anti-corruption body but will we get to hear about it? – Michael West

Mark Dreyfus, NACC, ICAC

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. Callum Foote reports on the spectre of a Secret National Anti-Corruption Commission (SNACC).

Source: NACC or SNACC? Labor delivers its anti-corruption body but will we get to hear about it? – Michael West

Oil & Gas

Oil, gas firms want own terms on emissions – Michael West

Australia’s oil and gas industry is seeking special treatment in its pitch to a federal government review into how the nation’s heaviest greenhouse gas emitters should be constrained.

Source: Oil, gas firms want own terms on emissions – Michael West

News

Pokies Thuggery: ClubsNSW lobbyists hammer critics, hide their own dirty laundry – Michael West

ClubsNSW

ClubsNSW is dragging a dying man through the courts, and media identity Friendly Jordies too, but its own house is hardly in order. Michael West reports.

Source: Pokies Thuggery: ClubsNSW lobbyists hammer critics, hide their own dirty laundry – Michael West