Sydney Cemetery War: meet the new boss, same as the old bossBy Callum Foote and Michael West | June 9, 2023Cemetery industry experts warn that the new Minister for Cemeteries, Steve Kamper, risks breaching the NSW ...
Has Tanya Plibersek watered down Scott Morrison’s already weak koala protection policy?By Suzanne Arnold | June 7, 2023Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has removed the Koala Referral Guidelines, replacing them with a weaker and ...
Smoke and Mirrors: report finds Origin Energy’s suitor Brookfield an aggressive global tax dodgerBy Callum Foote | June 6, 2023A global analysis of Canadian financial engineering juggernaut Brookfield, which is close to wrapping its $20bn ...
AUKUS Fissile or Fizzer? Rex Patrick on the trouble with Virginia Class second hand submarinesBy Rex Patrick | June 5, 2023Former submariner Rex Patrick looks under the hood of the second-hand Virginia-class nuclear submarines to see ...
Julian Assange ignored in “press freedom roundtable” as spies cosy up to Big MediaBy Philip Dorling | June 3, 2023New documents show Julian Assange got little more than a mention at Mark Dreyfus’s media talkfest this year. Amid ...
Draconian: South Australia just topped NSW, Tas, Victoria, Queensland with new laws penalising peaceful protestersBy Wendy Bacon | June 3, 2023A bill introducing harsh penalties and extending the scope of a law applying to those who obstruct public places ...
Have Shine Justice and PwC overstated the assets of the law firm?By Callum Foote | June 2, 2023Callum Foote has dusted off the accounting standards (AASB) and discovered that Shine Justice and its auditors PwC ...
Shine Justice to offload heavy finance costs onto pelvic mesh victims?By Callum Foote | May 31, 2023Johnson & Johnson pelvic mesh victims have expressed dismay at efforts by their law firm, Shine Justice, to stiff ...
The PwC scandal, the Big Four, and the real elephant in the room. What’s next?By Kim Wingerei | May 31, 2023While PwC is struggling to contain what might be its very own Enron moment, the ATO, Treasury and the Senate are ...
On captured media: we respond to Nine Entertainment and the AFR’s tepid hit-jobBy Michael West | May 30, 2023Nine Entertainment's media title the AFR has had a crack at Michael West Media. Michael West responds, gently ...
Exxon confirms Tax Office in pursuit as it and Chevron rip $13bn dividends out of AustraliaBy Michael West | May 29, 2023Woohoo! Two of the biggest tax cheats, ExxonMobil and Chevron (auditors PwC) have begun to pay a mite of income ...
Indonesia: how Australia’s biggest and closest neighbour uses our aidBy Duncan Graham | May 28, 2023Indonesia is Australia's biggest and closest neighbour and needs our aid, and much can be done with goodwill and ...
Crown vs Shannon: a tangled web of lies and collusion, or a Commbank and ASIC vendetta?By Lisa-Jane Roberts | May 26, 2023Why are the corporate regulator (ASIC) and the Commonwealth Bank so deeply immersed in a simple case of collecting ...
Did Governor General Hurley ignore Covid protocols for his Future Leaders Foundation?By Jommy Tee and Ronni Salt | May 23, 2023Did Governor-General David Hurley and his top bureaucrat Paul Singer break their own Covid protocols to meet with ...
Professors rebuke uni bosses for profit obsession, foreign students, sagging standardsBy Michael Sainsbury | May 22, 2023University professors have railed against the rising corporatisation of Australia's universities. Mass ...