Stephanie Tran

Stephanie is a journalist with a passion for uncovering stories that hold power to account. With a background in both law and journalism, she has worked at The Guardian and as a paralegal, where she assisted Crikey’s defence team in the high-profile defamation case brought by Lachlan Murdoch. Her reporting has been recognised nationally, earning her the 2021 Democracy’s Watchdogs Award for Student Investigative Reporting and a nomination for the 2021 Walkley Student Journalist of the Year Award.
Minerals, oil lobbies are not taxpayers (but guess who subsidises them?)

Minerals, oil lobbies are not taxpayers (but guess who subsidises them?)

Revealed: how the government is subsidising the coal lobby, via Minerals Council of Australia, to lobby it, itself
Steggall takes hatchet job, but will the chickens come home to roost for major parties?

Steggall takes hatchet job, but will the chickens come home to roost for major parties?

Spooked by independents, Liberals are happy to turn the spotlight turn on their opponents on political donations. ...
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 ...
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