May 28, 2025
The ASX website has recently started advertising its new offering to corporate Australia, ‘Colo on Demand’. What’s the Scam? Back in the day, when this writer worked at Ozemail, and the internet was still fresh and exciting, ‘colo’ – short for colocation – meant a...
May 15, 2025
Explorative mining in the Manning Valley not only risks the release of asbestos into the environment, but the NSW Government has also ignored the risk to the valley’s water supply. What’s the scam? The scam is how the NSW Department of Resources has made a mockery of...
May 10, 2025
author: Morris L. West name: Kim average rating: 4.36 book published: 1974 rating: 5 read at: 2025/05/10 date added: 2025/05/10 shelves: review: Masterful intrigue by a master writerReading this again after so many years, I found it to have aged like a good wine....
May 8, 2025
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...
May 7, 2025
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...
May 3, 2025
The Labor party added at least ten more seats to return with a clear majority, while a leaderless LNP will be licking their wounds and wondering where to from here. Kim Wingerei reports. Updated Sunday, May 4 AM. The headlines will be about a Labor landslide and Peter...
Apr 29, 2025
author: Hernan Diaz name: Kim average rating: 3.93 book published: 2022 rating: 4 read at: 2025/04/28 date added: 2025/04/28 shelves: review: A multi-faceted history of dissonance It’s the kind of book that’s hard to say much about without giving the plot away. A...
Apr 24, 2025
Australia ships 30 million tonnes of tax and royalty-free gas out of Darwin every year, but the Japanese are not all grateful for our largesse. What’s the scam? The scam is that not only do we not profit from it, but our great gas giveaway is slowing Japan’s...
Apr 23, 2025
Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy claims have been conspicuously absent from his election campaign. Now a leading energy analyst calculates the cost at more than $4.3 trillion, way above the Coalition’s touted $331B. Kim Wingerei reports. The Coalition’s plans to solve...
Apr 9, 2025
Donald Trump has declared a trade war, the share market is down, and US t-bond yields are rising. But how did it all start, and what’s next? Michael West and Kim Wingerei with the lowdown. They say that truth is stranger than fiction, and when it comes to what Trump...