<p>🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON <a href="https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear</a></p><p>📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: <a href="http://www.arationalfear.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.arationalfear.com/</a></p><br><p>This week Dan and Lewis Hobba are joined by independent journalist <strong>Michael West</strong> 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.</p><br><p>🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON <a href="https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear</a></p><p>Here's all the fun stuff you get when you sign up to Patreon.</p><p>🎧 Get an ad-free and sponsor free version of the show.</p><p>🎟 Get early access and discounts to live shows.</p><p>🎥 Get early access to final videos, and draft edits of upcoming videos.</p><p>👨🏼‍⚖️ Make show suggestions.</p><p>💬 Get a link to the A Rational Fear discord.</p><p>If you enjoyed this please drop us a review on Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-rational-fear/id522303261</a>a</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>