Climate protesters jailed, Qantas mega-fraudsters spend other people’s money
What’s the scam with jailing two climate protesters for disrupting Melbourne traffic when Qantas heavies cop a fine for dudding thousands of customers’ air traffic plans? The scam is the biggest corporate scam of the year – the Qantas ‘Ghost Flights’ scam – has been...
Qantas, the ACCC and a slap on the wrist. What’s the scam?
The ACCC today announced a settlement with Qantas for the ‘ghost flights’ debacle. It is a negotiated result of court action launched by the regulator in 2023, seeking hundreds of millions in compensation and damages. So what’s the scam? The scam is that, once again,...
AUKUS to JAUKUS or JAUKUSI – what’s next? The Indians are coming!
Japan mooted as the next to join the AUKUS pact? India too, encouraged to join the anti-China team. But first, another set of Indians wants in. What’s the scam? The scam is the AUKUS Forum – a self-appointed ‘interest group’ hungry to share in the submarine loot....Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
author: Antony Beevor name: Kim average rating: 4.12 book published: 2022 rating: 4 read at: 2024/04/04 date added: 2024/04/04 shelves: review: The forgotten war that rendered the revolution a mythAnthony Beevor at his best, the detail he gets across is astonishing,...Presidential Mission (The Lanny Budd Novels #8)
author: Upton Sinclair name: Kim average rating: 4.33 book published: 1947 rating: 0 read at: 2024/04/04 date added: 2024/04/04 shelves:...
Fake news or no news? The folly of the News Media Bargaining Code
Meta’s declaration that Facebook will no longer pay (some) Australian publishers for their news content has again highlighted the folly of the News Media Bargaining Code. It’s a poor solution to the wrong problem, Kim Wingerei writes. Facebook’s threat to jettison...The Visitors: The remarkable debut novel from an award-winning author and playwright, for readers of Melissa Lucashenko, Shankari Chandran and Tara June Winch
author: Jane Harrison name: Kim average rating: 3.93 book published: 2021 rating: 5 read at: 2024/03/27 date added: 2024/03/27 shelves: review: Beautiful, poignant, devastating The elders of Gadigal Country meets to decided to welcome or repel the mobs arriving on...
Forget the Bathurst 1000, enter the AUKUS 368. What’s the Scam?
While the Government this week announced another billion-dollar handout to foreign shipyards, this time in the UK, the mayor of Bathurst is putting his hand up for the town’s share of some of the $368B AUKUS loot. What’s the scam? The really big scam, of course, is...High Heels and Low Blows
author: Jill Valentine name: Kim average rating: 4.33 book published: rating: 3 read at: 2024/03/20 date added: 2024/03/20 shelves: review: A story rarely told from an insightful authorA glowing review in the Financial Review made me buy it, as there are not many...Get my book!
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