This Month
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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August
- 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
- 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.