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2 weeks ago | 
michaelwest.com.au | Andrew Gardiner |Michael West
A shroud of secrecy surrounds negotiations between the Labor Government and large media companies about more locally produced drama and other creative content. Andrew Gardiner reports. The Albanese government’s self-imposed deadline ($) for local content quotas for the streaming giants quietly passed in July 2024 without any announcement. Since then, Canberra has refused to release important documents that would explain why. What powerful force intervened?
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1 month ago | 
michaelwest.com.au | Michael West |Kim Wingerei |Andrew Gardiner |Michael Pascoe
South Australia is lining up for a $100 million goal as it welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors for the biggest AFL event outside of the grand final. First held in Adelaide in 2023, the state is hosting the annual round until 2026 and hopes to capitalise on its previous success this year with hundreds of associated events and festivals from Bordertown to the Barossa Valley.
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1 month ago | 
michaelwest.com.au | Michael West |Kim Wingerei |Andrew Gardiner |Michael Pascoe
Australia’s second biggest oil and gas producer has stressed the role of fuels in the energy transition, months after being accused of misleading the public on its net-zero plan. Santos chief executive Kevin Gallagher talked up the organisation’s performance despite sliding share prices and called for “sensible” policy in the energy transition.
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1 month ago | 
michaelwest.com.au | Michael West |Kim Wingerei |Andrew Gardiner |Michael Pascoe
April 10, 2025 12:52 | News Economists and investors are struggling to keep up with Donald Trump’s tariff gymnastics as the latest rethink spurs drastic repricing of rate-cut odds.
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1 month ago | 
michaelwest.com.au | Michael West |Kim Wingerei |Andrew Gardiner |Michael Pascoe
The Australian share market has rebounded after a last-minute delay to US ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs sent equities surging overnight. The S&P/ASX200 has rallied 347.2 points, or 4.71 per cent, to 7723, as the All Ordinaries shot up 359.7 points, or 4.76 per cent, to 7921.4.The bounce came after a dramatic Wall Street rally overnight, the S&P500 surging 9.5 per cent higher, its best daily result since the global financial crisis in 2008, as the tech heavy Nasdaq jumped 12.2 per cent.
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2 months ago | 
michaelwest.com.au | Andrew Gardiner |Michael West
Internet sensation Molly the Magpie is free to remain with his adoptive Gold Coast family after the Queensland government took definitional dexterity to new lengths on Wednesday, deeming the bird to be “wild”. What’s the scam?
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2 months ago | 
michaelwest.com.au | Stuart McCarthy |Andrew Gardiner |Rex Patrick |Michael Pascoe |Michael West
Three years ago, Ukraine’s top diplomat in Australia was with his family in Kyiv when Russian paratroopers started landing just 20 minutes from his home. It’s an experience Vasyl Myroshnychenko wants no Australian to share. “I will never forget that moment at five o’clock in the morning when my wife woke me up,” he told AAP. “I heard the explosions and my 18-year-old daughter and my five-year-old son were with me.
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2 months ago | 
michaelwest.com.au | Stuart McCarthy |Andrew Gardiner |Rex Patrick |Michael Pascoe |Michael West
Fresh from lowering interest rates for the first time in almost five years, the Reserve Bank will soon get more figures to help determine if a second cut is on the way. Inflation data for the month of January is expected to show a slight uptick when released on Wednesday. Commonwealth Bank economists have forecast monthly inflation to rise from 2.5 per cent to 2.7 per cent in January, within the target band of two to three per cent outlined by the Reserve Bank.
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2 months ago | 
michaelwest.com.au | Stuart McCarthy |Andrew Gardiner |Rex Patrick |Michael Pascoe |Michael West
February 23, 2025 10:58 | News Quotas for Australian steel to be used in major projects across the nation is under consideration, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says. As Australia awaits a decision from US President Donald Trump on his trade war, the Albanese government is looking to shelter the nation’s steel industry.
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2 months ago | 
michaelwest.com.au | Stuart McCarthy |Andrew Gardiner |Rex Patrick |Michael Pascoe |Michael West
Australians will have access to an extra 18 million bulk-billed general practitioner visits a year as part of a major election pledge from the federal government. The election date has yet to be announced but Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised a re-elected Labor government would spend $8.5 billion expanding bulk billing and training GPs and nurses.
