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1 week ago | 
michaelwest.com.au | Kim Wingerei |Michael West
A judge has ruled that pasting a piece of paper on a controversial former governor’s statue is not protected by freedom of political communication, but dismissed all charges against activist Stephen Langford. What’s the scam? The scam is how a very simple act of protest, which harmed nobody and damaged nothing, led to seven charges being laid and police and court resources wasted. In June 2020, Langford was arrested and denied bail, strip-searched and held in custody for 20 hours.
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1 week ago | 
michaelwest.com.au | Kim Wingerei |Michael West
The first report since the Safeguard Mechanism demonstrates the fundamental flaws in a system that may reduce emissions overall, but is certain to increase the profits of some emitters. Kim Wingerei reports. The Clean Energy Regulator’s report on Australia’s biggest polluters covers the 2023-24 financial year, and shows that emissions had dropped by approx. 2% from the previous year, and were 0.6% better than the baseline (as explained below).
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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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1 month ago | 
michaelwest.com.au | Rex Patrick |Kim Wingerei |Michael Pascoe |Michael West
April 1, 2025 17:11 | News Gas industry figures are warning the federal opposition’s east coast gas reservation plan will slow investment, stymie new supply and be a drag on the public purse. Deliberately oversupplying southern markets has a “large risk of being negative”, Beach Energy chief executive officer Brett Woods said at a gas industry conference on Tuesday.
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1 month ago | 
michaelwest.com.au | Rex Patrick |Kim Wingerei |Michael Pascoe |Michael West
April 1, 2025 16:10 | News Get out there and build. That’s the message Australia’s housing minister has delivered to property investors while claiming market stability and certainty could be at risk should the coalition secure a win at the impending election.
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1 month ago | 
michaelwest.com.au | Rex Patrick |Kim Wingerei |Michael Pascoe |Michael West
April 1, 2025 15:43 | Lobbyland, News Hopes remain high for mortgage relief in May despite a “cautious” Reserve Bank of Australia keeping interest rates on hold. As widely expected by economists, the RBA’s new monetary policy board held the cash rate steady at 4.1 per cent at its inaugural meeting on Tuesday.
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1 month ago | 
michaelwest.com.au | Rex Patrick |Kim Wingerei |Michael Pascoe |Michael West
Australia could be taken to task internationally for its “crisis of mass incarceration” of Indigenous children as one state tries to take its controversial youth crime crackdown even further. Indigenous legal experts have filed a complaint with the United Nations, pointing to what they say is systemic racial discrimination in criminal laws nationwide.
