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Why cash remains king

Fund manager Roger Montgomery explains why company profitability is important, but not as important as cash-flow 4 May 2023 | Roger Montgomery (Image: Nathan Mullet) Cash flow is the money flowing in and out of a […]

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AUKUS must be election issue

The Morrison Government has clear plans to take AUKUS to the next election as a key national security issue, however, its nuclear-powered submarines will be expensive white elephants, delivered long after the current government is […]

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Human rights and wrongs

Why does Australia still sell weapons to human-rights abuser Saudi Arabia? As the kingdom wages war in Yemen, Canberra continues to supply arms, making us complicit in the deaths of innocent civilians. 8 December 2021 […]

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Canberra’s corporate press pass

It’s not just journalists who hang around the National Press Club. A plethora of political lobbyists, industry bodies, weapons makers, the Big Four accounting firms, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, alcohol and gambling interests—groups overwhelmingly foreign-controlled—all […]

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Nuclear “sub-standard”

The US Navy and Britain’s Royal Navy can’t maintain their own nuclear submarines so how is Australia, a nation with no expertise in nuclear powered vessels, going to maintain its attack submarines? 23 September 2021 […]

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Taxpayer cash injections

“Everybody did it”: wealthy doctors lobbies line of for JobKeeper jab, Callum Foote reports on Australia’s Medical Colleges refusing to pay back millions in JobKeeper 10 September 2021 | Callum Foote, MW Media (Image: Towfiqu Barbhuiya/APAC […]

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Big bailout or big grift?

The Big Four banks are profiteering from the Reserve Bank’s bail-out fund by betting on their own bonds. Michael West investigates a very quiet scandal that is the Committed Liquidity Facility. 3 September 2021 | Michael West, […]

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Credibility tanked

ASPI consistently cites an annual review by the University of Pennsylvania as proof its global credentials are “gold standard” but a closer look at the report hardly supports ASPI’s claim 30 August 2021 | Marcus […]