Kim Sawyer

• Dr Kim Sawyer is a retired Associate Professor, University of Melbourne.

  He has a PhD in Econometrics from the Australian National University and has taught in a number of U.S. and Australian universities.

  His principal research interests are in whistleblowing, regulation, finance and philosophy.

Articles written by Kim Sawyer (48)

• 1 April 2026 | Money laundering is big business — especially for banks
• 18 March 2026 | Regulatory capture: How lobbyists and banks shape Australia’s rules
• 19 February 2026 | Australia's culture of complicity
• 9 December 2025 | Scam victims left unprotected as banks deny liability
• 27 October 2025 | We should never have agreed to AUKUS
• 26 September 2025 | Degrees of failure: Senate exposes university governance crisis
• 10 September 2025 | Calls grow for new banking royal commission amid $8 billion scam losses
• 22 July 2025 | Banks, mules and government fools let scammers run free in Australia
• 12 June 2025 | Universities Trumped by political interference
• 9 May 2025 | Winners and losers: Landslide win for preferences, not voters
• 16 April 2025 | The oligopoly that is Australian politics
• 21 December 2024 | IA Writing Competition Most Compelling Article 2024 — The perils of indifference: History repeats itself in Gaza
• 14 August 2024 | Australian victims on their own in 'honey pot' for scammers
• 6 May 2024 | The perils of indifference: History repeats itself in Gaza
• 15 March 2024 | Universities Accord fails to restore integrity to higher education
• 28 February 2024 | Banks doing little to protect scam victims
• 11 June 2023 | Whistleblowers crucial in exposing truth in Roberts-Smith trial
• 21 May 2023 | It is time to question Australia's COVID-19 response
• 7 March 2022 | Putin will prevail if good people do nothing
• 10 February 2022 | Coalition's failure to establish ICAC is electoral poison
• 23 January 2022 | Coalition caught napping: Ventilation key to curbing COVID
• 8 January 2022 | Government COVID response a series of policy failures
• 13 December 2021 | Julian Assange trial is political hypocrisy
• 27 August 2021 | Rapid testing and viral mapping can help beat COVID-19
• 30 May 2021 | Australia suffered from having no pandemic plan
• 17 January 2021 | Refugees defenceless against politics of cruelty
• 19 July 2020 | Common sense must dictate COVID-19 response
• 6 June 2020 | Patchy COVID-19 testing may underestimate cases in Australia
• 26 April 2020 | Still in the dark over COVID-19, testing and re-testing is vital
• 27 March 2020 | Winning the fight against COVID-19: Why testing is key
• 22 February 2020 | Senator Grassley reveals the extent of President Trump's corruption
• 21 January 2020 | Coalition MPs lead the pack in leaning and entitlement
• 11 January 2020 | Measuring the bushfire tragedy and what we can do next
• 20 October 2019 | President Trump has perfected the art of corruption
• 9 July 2019 | Universities, Folau, AFP raids and why free speech isn't free
• 26 June 2019 | The decline of Australian corporate culture
• 26 May 2019 | Rewarding rorting and bad behaviour: Why many LNP politicians were re-elected
• 3 May 2019 | Forgiving the student debt trap
• 18 April 2019 | We need to vote for long-term policy makers
• 16 January 2019 | Is Trump a necessary evil?
• 26 August 2018 | Should 16-year-olds vote in the next Federal Election?
• 22 July 2018 | The Lord of the Lies: Donald Trump's uncivil war
• 27 May 2018 | The international butterfly effect of a chaotic U.S. President
• 25 March 2018 | Donald Trump: A Ponzi Presidency
• 28 November 2017 | Athletes, dope and the lords of the court
• 22 June 2017 | Trump's stress test for the US: The 'opportunity cost' of a presidency
• 20 April 2017 | 100th anniversary of Bullecourt — the bloody battles Australians forgot
• 21 October 2016 | Is Trump the Master Builder building one tower too many?