The US is averaging one chemical accident every two days
The company they keep: where MPs invest
Open Politics’ analysis shows which public companies and industries are popular investments with federal MPs, who the big shareholders and traders are, and highlights potential conflicts of interest.
Financial Review’s coverage of story
50 politicians or […]
Open Politics – The interests of Australia’s public officials
Open Politics has been established by Sean Johnson to increase public scrutiny of the private interests of our federal politicians – their investment properties, family trusts, share portfolios, and debts, as well as the gifts, trips, and entertainment many receive from those […]
Member of Parliament confirms the UK will sign up to WHO’s Pandemic Treaty
Last week, Mark Fletcher, Member of Parliament for Bolsover, responded to a constituent’s email:
“Then Prime Minister Boris Johnson, alongside other world leaders, called for the creation of a pandemic treaty … the current target date for agreeing on the […]
RBA Review: Pre-emptive strike against democratic accountability and economic revival
The recommendations of the RBA Review are designed to kill government oversight over the nation’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of Australia; destroy the final traces of the powers of the people’s bank, the Commonwealth Bank, retained by the RBA; and set in concrete the austerity agenda that will protect the current financial […]
Prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death
Our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer (1). Based on the best research I could find, I have estimated that psychiatric drugs alone are also the third major killer (2), mainly because antidepressants kill many elderly people through falls (3). This tells us that the […]
Why did so many Australians die in 2022?
The Excess Deaths Project
On February 24th, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) updated its provisional excess death statistic for 2022 from 16% to 15.1%. If you have come to this website after seeing a graph or flyer giving a figure of 16% excess deaths in 2022, that […]