He is the founder of Michael West Media, a news website specialising in investigative journalism in the areas of business, finance, tax, and energy.
[3] He later wrote a column at The Australian newspaper titled 'Margin Call',[5] for which he was praised by the founder of Crikey, Stephen Mayne; as being 'one of the few financial journalists out there having a go at some of the business practices employed by the likes of Macquarie Bank and Babcock & Brown'.
[6] In 2005, he won the business journalism Walkley Award for his article at The Australian titled "Allstate".
At the SMH his writing was particularly focused upon the Australian tax interests of multinational companies including Twitter, Google, and Facebook.
[9] His stories about tax evasion by multinationals, and corruption in the Australian electricity sector[10] contributed to the establishment of two Senate Inquiries.