Spam Latitude! Breaking the law 2.7m times and getting away with it Latitude Financial broke the law 2.7 million times and was fined a whopping $1.50 per transgression, totalling $3.98 million.

Spam Latitude! Breaking the law 2.7m times and getting away with it #Whatsthescam

Spam Latitude! Breaking the law 2.7m times and getting away with it - Michael West Latitude Financial broke the law 2.7 million times and was fined a whopping $1.50 per transgression, totalling $3.98 million.

New record. Latitude Financial breaks the law 2.7m times, eclipses Commbank's 57k money laundering breaches, pinged by ACMA for spam, fined $3.9m
#whatsthescam #auspol @kimwingerei.bsky.social
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The ‘Robodebt Six’ and the NACC deception. What’s the scam? Last month, NACC Deputy Commissioner Kylie Kilgour all but exonerated the six people subject to potential prosecution by the Royal Commission.

The ‘Robodebt Six’ and the NACC deception. What’s the scam? #Whatsthescam

The 'Robodebt Six' and the NACC deception. What's the scam? - Michael West Last month, NACC Deputy Commissioner Kylie Kilgour all but exonerated the six people subject to potential prosecution by the Royal Commission.

NACC uses tricky words, betrays intent of Royal Commissioner, in ducking prosecution of 'Robodebt 6'
Paul Begly #auspol #whatsthescam
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Murdoch’s The Australian finally identifies at The Israelian Is it the dawn of a new age of truth in mainstream media? Rupert Murdoch's The Australian has identified itself as The Israelian.

Murdoch’s The Australian finally identifies at The Israelian #Whatsthescam

Murdoch's The Australian finally identifies at The Israelian - Michael West Is it the dawn of a new age of truth in mainstream media? Rupert Murdoch's The Australian has identified itself as The Israelian.

Rupert Murdoch's The Australian identifies itself - yes, in its own newspaper - as "The Israelian". Is this the dawn of a new age of truth in media? Accident or design?
#whatsthescam

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Fat cat salaries. Public service chiefs in a world of their own - Michael West Salaries for our best-paid Federal public servants set without reference to private sector or comparable positions in other bureaucracies.

Rem Tribunal - how do they set public service bosses world-class salaries?

No due dil, no comparatives, no metrics, they just have a stab. @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social #auspol #whatsthescam
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"…politicians gamed by foreign multinationals on fuel reserves” #auspol #fossillobby #whatsthescam

Fuel crisis. Industry lobbying counters national interest - Michael West With the continued uncertainty of supply from the Middle East, Australia's fuel reserves are more important than ever.

Got to stop listening to fossil lobby which is right now making a killing - both gas and petrol retailing. @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social exposes politicians gamed by foreign multinationals on fuel reserves
#whatsthescam #auspol
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“Healing” charity raises tax-deductible funds for Israeli soldiers The Chai Charitable Foundation is currently facilitating donations to Brothers for Life, an Israeli organisation providing support services to soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

“Healing” charity raises tax-deductible funds for Israeli soldiers #Whatsthescam

"Healing" charity raises tax-deductible funds for Israeli soldiers - Michael West Charity facilitating donations to Brothers for Life, an Israeli organisation providing support to soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces.

Charity which brought IDF female war crimes suspects to Australia for yoga is 1 of 5 identified financing illegal settlements/IDF #chai #auspol
@sstephanietrann.bsky.social #whatsthescam
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Liquidator: “Happy to lose $350k, let the boat go to scrap” "Happy to lose $350k and let the boat go to scrap", says the email from liquidator Hall Chadwick's associates to Kimberley Pearl Tours.

Liquidator: “Happy to lose $350k, let the boat go to scrap” #Whatsthescam

Liquidator: "Happy to lose $350k, let the boat go to scrap" - Michael West "Happy to lose $350k and let the boat go to scrap", says the email from liquidator Hall Chadwick's associates to Kimberley Pearl Tours.

“Happy to lose $350k and let the boat go to scrap”, says the email from receivers Hall Chadwick’s associates to Kimberley Pearl Tours
#auspol #whatsthescam

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Hold my beer. Uniparty votes down Senate gas inquiry - Michael West ACT Senator David Pocock's proposal for an inquiry into why gas companies pay less tax than beer drinkers voted down.

Beer drinkers pay more tax than gas giants, despite gas 5x the sales, but Uniparty votes down Senate inquiry call by Greens, indis and PHON.

That's donations for yous
#whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social
#auspol
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Santos shareholders rejoice, Peter’s got your back. Not content with a decade's worth of guaranteed gas purchases from Santos, SA Premier Peter Malinauskas is removing the risk of the $500m pipeline upgrade.

Santos shareholders rejoice, Peter’s got your back. #Whatsthescam

Refugees on the move as invasion of Iran takes its toll - Michael West While mainstream media wallows in the spectacle of a live-streamed war, refugees in the Middle East are yet again on the move to nowhere safe.

Psst, don't tell Pauline the US Israel wars she supports are causing another refugee crisis
#auspol #whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social #Iran
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A Premier defied. NOT-Adelaide Writers' Week a smashing success - Michael West Constellation, the writer's week that rose from the ashes of cancelled Adelaide Writers' Festival has defied defying efforts to kill it

Packed venues. Free speech prevails. Murdoch & Malinauskas killed Adelaide Writers' Week, but 'Not-AWW' (sponsored by MWM) has gone off!
#auspol #whatsthescam #FreeSpeech
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Bondi Beach bounty - $5000 a day - Michael West Is public service pay too high? Head of Bondi Beach massacre inquiry Dennis Richardson jags $5,000 a day for 'independent report'.

Public service boss heading up Bondi Inquiry jags 5k a day for 'independent inquiry'
#whatsthescam @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social
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Australian gas not keeping the lights on in Japan. What's the scam? - Michael West In 2024, Japan exported 40% of the gas it imported from Australia, keeping prices high here. What's the scam?

Australia, you are being scammed! #IEEFA shows Japanese export 40% of Aussie gas exports. Yep, they on-sell our gas for a profit while the corporations cry poor about tax and royalties and gas shortages @kimwingerei.bsky.social

#auspol #whatsthescam
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Israel lobby law firm jags plumb role in Bondi Royal Commission - Michael West Gilbert & Tobin, key sponsor for elite Israel lobby group AICC, is to "provide legal support" for the Royal Commission into Antisemitism

Hearings kick off next week and the Israel lobby will be glad" that G&T has been picked to deliver legal services to the Bondi Royal Commission.
#auspol #whatsthescam
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Cafe of Dissent. When satire meets hate speech laws - Michael West Posters depicting world 'leaders' wearing Nazi uniforms have led to a cafe owner having to shut down gig as police established a crime scene.

Police charging about wrecking art & music gigs bc Netanyahu's Numpties complain, Hate Speech Laws
@joshbarnettmw.bsky.social #whatsthescam #auspol
#hatespeech
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Property Bargain. Come and get it Aussies! Stolen Palestinian land! - Michael West "The Great Israeli Real Estate Event is coming to Australia". "Exclusive discounts". "Don't miss this event!" What's the scam?

Property Bargains! Come and get it Aussies! Stolen Palestinian Land!
#whatsthescam
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As Herzog commemorates Bondi, IDF desecrates Australian war graves - Michael West Herzog is here to offer solace to those devastated by the Bondi massacre. Meanwhile, the IDF desecrates the graves of Australian soldiers.

The irony of Israeli president Isaac Herzog pressing the flesh with Australian servicemen and women today
#whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social
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Japan wins, Australian consumers lose. Intense lobbying revealed - Michael West While Australian consumers suffer from record-high energy prices, Japanese LNG companies enjoy the spoils of on-selling Australian LNG.

Gas lobbyists report: meetings with ministers etc "at least 24 times since the Labor Government’s election in May 2022"

No wonder Japanese mnc are exporting our gas on the cheap on on-selling it for a profit
@kimwingerei.bsky.social #whatsthescam #auspol
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Gambling advertising ban. Labor odds-on to do nothing - Michael West Doing nothing on gambling advertising isn’t enough for the Albanese Government; they want to ensure nobody does.

Gambling reform odds: Lab-Libs odds on to stall and do SFA, shorts odds to do nothing, significant reform unbackable.
#auspol @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social #whatsthescam they just defeated a motion to talk about it
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IDF supplier Bisalloy Steel targeted by Herzog protesters - Michael West Wollongong Friends of Palestine are holding community picket at Bisalloy Steel to protest the visit of Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog.

Herzog. The protests and pickets have begun, over Israel prez visit. Bisalloy Steel which exports to IDF picketed now
@sstephanietrann.bsky.social #whatsthescam
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Interest rates up. RBA says labour market is too "tight" - Michael West The Reserve Bank did what most hoped it wouldn't do: raise interest rates while trotting out more of its “uncertainty” mantra.

RBA explain for rates hike unconvincing, says @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #whatsthescam #auspol
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Tweets and bombs. Both get you arrested - Michael West A Sydney Palestinian activist has been arrested and charged with "inciting violence" against politicians on social media.

The double standards in arresting Theo Nolan-Isles @Rustinyoureye for a jocular tweet v taking 8 weeks to charge David Wise for a bomb are ... brazen

But that's Israelia for you #auspol #whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social
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Vic fire authority gets funding boost. Or does it? - Michael West Victoria Premier Jacinta Allan has released a report stating the CFA has increased funding by $21.8m over the last financial year.

Vic Fires authority report finally out, funding up over one year down over 5
@ajgardineresq.bsky.social #whatsthescam
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To the great chagrin of the fossil media, Adelaide Festival apologies bring Writers' Week back from the dead @kimwingerei.bsky.social #whatsthescam
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