Episode
BHP is taking Michael West to court! — feat. Michael West
- Podcast
- A Rational Fear
- Published
- May 20, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1593
- Processing state
not_requested- Canonical source
- https://shows.acast.com/a-rational-fear-1/episodes/bhp-is-taking-michael-west-to-court-feat-michael-west
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-rational-fear-1080338/episodes/bhp-is-taking-michael-west-to-court-feat-michael-west/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-rational-fear-1080338/bhp-is-taking-michael-west-to-court-feat-michael-west.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear 📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ This week Dan and Lewis Hobba are joined by independent journalist Michael West of Michael West Media — who's being sued by BHP, Australia's biggest company, over his reporting on coal miner Simon Turner's decade-long fight for compensation. Turner broke his back at BHP's Mount Arthur mine in 2015, was misclassified as a "clerical worker," and paid $400 a week for a job whose award rate is $137,000 a year. Sitting behind the lawsuit is a potentially $10 billion labour hire wage theft scandal involving Chandler Macleod and Coal LSL — and the awkward fact that BHP, a $300 billion company, is also the major sponsor of the Walkley Awards while using Minter Ellison to muzzle a four-person independent newsroom. 🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear Here's all the fun stuff you get when you sign up to Patreon. 🎧 Get an ad-free and sponsor free version of the show. 🎟 Get early access and discounts to live shows. 🎥 Get early access to final videos, and draft edits of upcoming videos. 👨🏼⚖️ Make show suggestions. 💬 Get a link to the A Rational Fear discord. If you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261 a Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.