January
- Exclusive
- Software
WiseTech billionaire parties in Dubai with man who fled the country
Richard White and wife Zena Nasser celebrated with Mark Merhi, who left Australia after his real estate firm collapsed owing $80 million.
December 2024
- Exclusive
- Billionaires
WiseTech founder restructures assets to give wife a share
Richard White’s corporate restructure puts Zena Nasser in the driving seat of one of his private investment vehicles.
November 2024
- Exclusive
- Software
WiseTech awarded equipment contract to White’s lover
The WiseTech board is investigating a series of transactions between the technology company and a former lover of founder Richard White.
- Investigation
- Insolvency
The tech billionaire, his wife, her ex-husband and a big property deal
WiseTech Global founder Richard White has invested in many ventures, but a disused industrial site is one of the more surprising. It could be a lucrative one.
October 2024
- Investigation
- Billionaires
How Richard White’s humble tech nerd image came undone
Why he clung on to his job at the top of WiseTech despite an $11 billion fortune as his personal life disintegrated is a question only he can answer.
- Updated
- Investigation
WiseTech chief executive Richard White quits amid scandal
The billionaire businessman will return as a full-time consultant on the same salary he enjoyed as chief executive of the company he founded three decades ago.
- Investigation
- Billionaires
Richard White gave $7m mansion to female WiseTech employee
But the billionaire businessman, who is the software firm’s chief executive, said he had disclosed the relationship before she started at the company.
- Updated
- Investigation
- Governance
WiseTech director’s scathing assessment of ‘bully’ Richard White
Christine Holman accused the software giant’s chief executive of intimidation, bullying and overseeing poor corporate governance as she quit in 2019.
- Exclusive
- Investigation
Billionaire Richard White’s WiseTech share sales to pay ex-wife
The businessman has previously said he was selling down his stake in the software giant he founded because investors were demanding shares be made available.
- Exclusive
- Billionaires
‘LinkedIn Lecher’: WiseTech board to probe payments to CEO’s ex-lover
An investigation also reveals the businessman approached female entrepreneurs with offers of professional help that shifted into crude or suggestive language.
September 2024
- Investigation
- Building Bad
‘I love a cunning plan’: A crime boss, the CFMEU and tax-dodging deals
Secret police recordings of more than 1000 calls made from prison helped unravel George Alex’s sprawling and corrupt labour hire empire.
- Updated
August 2024
- Exclusive
- Building Bad
Financial failure, missed taxes and deadly history no barrier to CFMEU promotion
Industry insiders claim a scaffolding firm with a chequered past and links to organised crime was still able to secure promotion at the highest levels of the CFMEU.
July 2024
- Investigation
- Building Bad
This firm is on police’s radar, but still thriving thanks to CFMEU
A company run by brothers known to the authorities and championed by the union has ballooned into one of NSW’s biggest labour hire operations.
May 2021
- Investigation
- Nuix investigation
Nuix turmoil throws spotlight on Macquarie
Fresh details have emerged of the bank’s role in the tech company’s IPO, amid a witch-hunt to find the source of internal leaks.
- Investigation
- Nuix investigation
Ex-CEO: Where is Nuix going to find the money?
The technology giant has ditched half its defence in a damages claim by co-founder Eddie Sheehy that has ballooned to $200 million.
- Investigation
- Nuix investigation
How a consultant turned $3000 into $80 million
Nuix documents show a mystery six-year gap in the recording of Anthony Castagna’s options package, which he cashed out for millions.
- Investigation
- Nuix investigation
‘Slow the bleeding’: Nuix review flashed red weeks after listing
As the company’s shares peaked in January, an internal report was sounding the alarm that its products were in trouble.
- Investigation
- Nuix investigation
The infighting behind the $2.7b Nuix meltdown
It was last year’s hottest float, before missed forecasts sent its stock into a rapid plunge. But the company’s chequered history serves as a reality check.