Stephanie Tran

Stephanie is a journalist and has a law/journalism degree. She was a finalist for the 2021 Walkley Student Journalist of the Year Award and the winner of the 2021 Democracy's Watchdogs Award for Student Investigative Reporting.
AEC cracks down on Twitterati, lets breaches by major political parties slide

AEC cracks down on Twitterati, lets breaches by major political parties slide

While the AEC has been blocking its critics on Twitter, it is not so diligent when it comes to policing myriad ...
Only Lib donations this year from biggest donor, billionaire Anthony Pratt

Only Lib donations this year from biggest donor, billionaire Anthony Pratt

Billionaire cardboard King Anthony Pratt, Australia's biggest donor, slotted the Liberal Party $1.2m via Pratt ...
Who didn’t replace the toner? How our ex-prime ministers spent a million bucks

Who didn’t replace the toner? How our ex-prime ministers spent a million bucks

Malcolm Turnbull may have memorably coined the term miserable ghost for Rudd and Abbott, but he and his ...
The hidden world of power and influence: donors pay top dollar for a seat at Ministers’ table

The hidden world of power and influence: donors pay top dollar for a seat at Ministers’ table

“We don’t live in a democracy anymore. We live in a plutocracy. The Australian political system is a wholly owned ...
Revealed: Rupert Murdoch’s crack team of Liberal Party fundraisers

Revealed: Rupert Murdoch’s crack team of Liberal Party fundraisers

News Corp columnists have continued to beat the bushes for the Coalition at fundraising events, the latest ...
Profits of punishment: the big business of Australia’s private prisons 

Profits of punishment: the big business of Australia’s private prisons 

Multinational prison contractors reap billion-dollar government contracts with soaring profits throughout the ...
Foreign multinational Max Solutions the biggest winner in pandemic jobs crisis

Foreign multinational Max Solutions the biggest winner in pandemic jobs crisis

A takeovers binge is in swing in the jobless sector as the biggest private provider of employment services, the ...
Jobactive fails jobless while privatised job agencies revel in a record pandemic profit boom

Jobactive fails jobless while privatised job agencies revel in a record pandemic profit boom

Large job agencies who dominate Australia's privatised employment system are enjoying a boom of record profits, ...
State Capture: Nationals’ corporate funders revealed, tobacco giant Phillip Morris a party member

State Capture: Nationals’ corporate funders revealed, tobacco giant Phillip Morris a party member

An investigation shows close links between the tobacco industry and the National Party as former deputy PM John ...
State Capture: Coalition assault on GetUp backfires, catches a rash of fossil fuel donors

State Capture: Coalition assault on GetUp backfires, catches a rash of fossil fuel donors

It was a magnificent shot-in-the-foot, a political “own goal” directed at its ideological foes, and driven by a ...
State Capture: top corporations identified as members of both Liberal and Labor parties

State Capture: top corporations identified as members of both Liberal and Labor parties

Companies which benefit enormously from government policy are also actual members of both the major political ...
Whither Democracy? Political donations triple as AEC prepares 2021 data drop

Whither Democracy? Political donations triple as AEC prepares 2021 data drop

When the Australian Electoral Commission drops its political donations data tomorrow, it will almost certainly ...
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