The West Report

Feb 12 2025 49 ep. 10 mins 11
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The West Report is dedicated to the public interest. Our focus is investigations into big business, particularly multinational tax avoidance, banking and the energy sector.

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Housing is Cooked: How they sold out Australia

Feb 12 2025 13 mins  
Aussies are being priced out of their own country while foreign investors and institutional landlords laugh all the way to the bank. The latest move? Tax breaks for BlackRock, Vanguard, and offshore billionaires to snap up housing stock, turning home ownership into a distant dream for young Australians. Meanwhile, the pollies in Canberra. Labor and Liberal continue to prioritise do

Free speech and the great Egging Scam

Feb 09 2025 9 mins  
Allegra Spender scammed by egging hype, ABC and Antoinette Lattouf, Peter Lalor SEN, woke beer and Peter Dutton blows the man whistle. Watch the latest Scam of the Week as we break down the media circus, political blunders, and why journalism in Australia is under attack.Summary by Chat-GPT:This video takes a cheeky dig at media hype, politics, and the weaponising of "woke" culture

Trump's trade war

Feb 04 2025 6 mins  
Trump's inane trade war will hit US consumers - inflation, plus the world economy. Why is he doing it? Political bribes, sorry donations, data is out, and we check Rex Patrick's FOI jihad. Where will we dumping that American nuclear waste? Summary created by Chatgpt:Donald Trump has launched a trade war, imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, and Europe. These tariffs are effec

Invasion day

Jan 26 2025 10 mins  
This satirical podcast discusses billionaire Gina Rinehart's alleged plan to move her wealth to the United States, criticizing the privileges of billionaires while mocking their complaints about paying taxes in Australia. The podcast humorously highlights corporate tax avoidance, political policies favouring big business, and government subsidies to failing companies. It also touch

Israel's Other War : Foreign Influence and Hasbara

Jan 23 2025 19 mins  
This video critiques the Israeli government and its handling of conflicts in Gaza and beyond. It claims that Israel uses aggressive public relations (called "hasbara") to justify its actions and silence critics. The video discusses how political and media narratives are shaped to focus on issues like anti-Semitism while downplaying other crises, such as domestic violence or oppress

BHP's Big Wage Theft

Jan 20 2025 6 mins  
BHP has just sought more confidentiality orders to bury its $2.5B wage theft of coal workers. Solicitors and assorted hangers-on are now at the Fair Work Commission fighting the government on "Same Job, Same Pay" laws

Battle lines drawn for this year's federal election

Jan 10 2025 11 mins  
The election season has begun, and Albo’s off to a rocky start. From flying cash and poll slumps to media manipulation and identity politics, we break down the key battles Labor faces against Dutton and a hostile media landscape. Will Albo turn it around, or is this the Coalition’s race to lose? Watch now to unpack the drama, distractions, and high-stakes decisions shaping Aust

BHP - The Big Sneaky Australian

Jan 09 2025 18 mins  
BHP is plotting what seems to be the biggest project in Australian history. Bigger than Snowy, bigger than The Bridge. But why are they so bashful about it?It has a taskforce code name - "Together Tomorrow". But who is together? What are the politics? We piece together the jigsaw with BHP whistleblower James Joseph and coal miner advocate Simon Turner the stealthy plan to turn the

Nuclear Neverland: The Lost Boys of Costings

Dec 13 2024 8 mins  
It's hard to take the Coalition's nuclear energy policy seriously, so we didn't. And frankly, why would they put taxpayers on the hook for the biggest public funded project in history when renewables are crowding private investment en masse?

Antisemitism in Australia

Dec 11 2024 7 mins  
Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton and the antisemitism crisis - a crisis fuelled by Zionist supporters of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. They need to look in the mirror.