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Nov 22, 2024 | 
michaelwest.com.au | Rex Patrick |Nick Riemer |Harry Chemay |Duncan Graham |Michael West
A grieving Melbourne community will turn their suburb blue and yellow in memory of two teens who died from suspected methanol poisoning while on holiday in Laos. Holly Bowles, 19, died on Friday in a Bangkok hospital, one day after her best mate Bianca Jones, also 19, died in another hospital in the Thailand capital.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
michaelwest.com.au | Rex Patrick |Nick Riemer |Harry Chemay |Duncan Graham |Michael West
A big battery will plug into the solar corridor to the south of Canberra, with the profits to go to the taxpayer in a revenue-sharing first. Located next to existing powerlines and solar farms, construction has begun on Eku Energy’s $400 million project that will bring 200 jobs for local tradies.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
michaelwest.com.au | Rex Patrick |Nick Riemer |Harry Chemay |Duncan Graham |Michael West
November 23, 2024 03:30 | News Supermarket giant Coles has dismissed suggestions of “repercussions” for suppliers refusing to take part in the company’s promotions at an inquiry probing claims of anti-competitive conduct in the grocery sector.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
michaelwest.com.au | Rex Patrick |Nick Riemer |Harry Chemay |Duncan Graham |Michael West
Negotiators are expected to disappoint those calling for trillions of dollars in climate finance for developing countries to switch to clean energy and save their communities from extreme weather. Aid advocates say there is a chasm between what people on the front-lines of climate change need – including some of Australia’s closest neighbours – and what rich countries are willing to pay.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
michaelwest.com.au | Rex Patrick |Nick Riemer |Harry Chemay |Duncan Graham |Michael West
Time is running out for the Albanese government to clear a growing backlog of stalled bills before parliament breaks for the year. Down in the polls and eyeing an election due in the first half of 2025, Labor is eager to push as much of its agenda through an uncooperative Senate as it can. But with just one sitting week left in the year, progress is slow-going.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
michaelwest.com.au | Rex Patrick |Nick Riemer |Harry Chemay |Duncan Graham |Michael West
November 22, 2024 18:54 | News As the nation’s housing crisis intensifies, Australians are being warned the spiralling cost of rent threatens to affect everyone. Two ideas – and the politicians pushing them to help renters across the nation – might need to work together as the long-term trend of worsening affordability continues.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
michaelwest.com.au | Rex Patrick |Nick Riemer |Harry Chemay |Duncan Graham |Michael West
Coles denies it “sits out” fresh produce suppliers who challenge the supermarket giant’s pricing, as a public inquiry into competition in the sector closes. The alleged practice of sending contrary suppliers on a “supplier holiday” formed part of the competition watchdog’s final day of public hearings on Friday.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
michaelwest.com.au | Rex Patrick |Nick Riemer |Harry Chemay |Duncan Graham |Michael West
After years of high inflation taking a toll on customers and business costs, P&V Liquor co-founder Mike Bennie has never seen it so difficult. “I’ve never seen the kind of mortality rate of business that’s going on right now, and also the sense of foreboding that a lot of people have in terms of job security, in terms of viability of business, and in terms of how business looks like in the future,” he said.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
michaelwest.com.au | Rex Patrick |Nick Riemer |Harry Chemay |Duncan Graham |Michael West
International pop superstar Katy Perry has had a court win in her long-running trademark battle with an Australian fashion designer after her decade-old Prism tour. The US singer, whose real name is Katheryn Hudson, on Friday successfully appealed 2023 Federal Court findings that her firm Kitty Purry engaged in trademark infringement during the 2014 Australian tour.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
michaelwest.com.au | Rex Patrick |Nick Riemer |Harry Chemay |Duncan Graham |Michael West
Australia would be forced to arrest Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister on charges of war crimes under an international court ruling that’s splitting the global community. The International Criminal Court (ICC) found there were reasonable grounds that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallantbore criminal responsibility for alleged war crimes.
