December 2024
Hate laws ‘patchwork’ needs urgent reform: antisemitism envoy
Jillian Segal, Australia’s first envoy to combat antisemitism, says better consistency is needed between federal, state and territory laws, pledging to push for changes in 2025.
- Tom McIlroy
Australia spends $190m on Solomons policing
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Solomon Islands counterpart Jeremiah Manele announced the agreement on Friday.
- Tom McIlroy
Growing threat of teen terrorism has police worried
Australia has joined its Five Eyes allies to warn about the dangers of youth being radicalised online.
- Andrew Tillett
November 2024
David Collard keeping records from liquidators
He seems to show no indication of wanting to do right by creditors, which include the Australian Tax Office and the employees in the town where he grew up.
- Myriam Robin
- Exclusive
- Funding
Woolworths, Westpac funds back controversial $500m anti-crime start-up
Auror’s use of AI technology to help retailers track criminals led to an Information Commissioner investigation, but investors aren’t worried.
- Paul Smith
PwC government work ban to last at least another six months
The Department of Finance has deferred a decision about whether the Australian firm can again bid for government work until the middle of next year.
- Edmund Tadros
- Exclusive
- PwC tax scandal
AFP search PwC’s Sydney headquarters over tax leaks scandal
The officers will examine documents and computers as part of Operation Alesia, an inquiry into the disclosure of confidential government information.
- Edmund Tadros
October 2024
Labor’s claimed ignorance of CFMEU thuggery ‘outlandish’: ex-ABCC boss
The former head of the building industry watchdog said he repeatedly alerted parliament to union links with bikies and organised crime over two decades.
- Updated
- David Marin-Guzman
- Exclusive
- Investigation
ASIC raids four properties in ANZ bond manipulation probe
The move was part of efforts to gather evidence as the regulator investigates the bank over allegations it improperly profited from a $14 billion bond sale.
- Jonathan Shapiro
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Where middle Australia meets the Middle East
Israel’s push into Lebanon ensures a greater fraying of any complacency about this country’s claims to enjoy enduring social cohesion over generations of immigrants.
- Jennifer Hewett
September 2024
Alex found guilty of $10m tax fraud conspiracy
Construction identity George Alex has been found guilty of conspiring to defraud the tax office through his labour hire firms as his marathon six-month trial came to an end.
- David Marin-Guzman
August 2024
Doxxed Jewish group demands police probe of NYT admission
Members of a group of Jewish creative workers who suffered harassment after details of a private chat group were published believe there’s evidence of a possible crime.
- Gus McCubbing
Younger people overtake Boomers as biggest investment scam victims
More than half of investment scam victims last financial year were aged under 50, while a similar portion of the losses were in cryptocurrency, according to the AFP.
- Ronald Mizen
Federal Police plan Parliament House walk-off amid pay dispute
The planned “extremely disruptive” industrial action is part of a pay dispute in which AFP personnel claim they are being lumped in with “desk job public servants”.
- Ronald Mizen
- Exclusive
- Scams
AFP discovers 2000 compromised Australian cryptocurrency wallets
Hundreds of compromised accounts were discovered on crypto exchanges as part of a multi-nation effort dubbed Operation Spincaster.
- Ronald Mizen
PwC clears itself of misleading ATO on FIRB application
Three current and former PwC Australia CEOs will appear before parliament on Friday to testify about the firm’s tax leaks scandal .
- Edmund Tadros
July 2024
- Exclusive
- Russia-Ukraine war
Russia spying? Don’t be so paranoid, Kremlin envoy says
Moscow’s ambassador in Canberra says the espionage arrests of a Russian couple living in Australia is like an episode of TV show “The Americans”, and it’s actually Russians who are unsafe.
- Andrew Tillett
COVID-19 lockdown anger a turning point in political discourse
Dangerous and undemocratic social media activity started during Victoria’s pandemic lockdowns is persisting, the Home Affairs Minister has warned.
- Tom McIlroy
Army private and the labourer: The couple behind Russian spy plot
Arrested at their Brisbane home, the couple are accused of being sleeper agents who allegedly tried to pass Australian Defence Force secrets to Moscow.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett and James Hall
‘Gas has an important role to play’: Albanese
PM spruiks manufacturing policy amid shipping crises; Chuck Schumer signals he is open to replacing Biden; Ayres says shipping chaos is pushing up prices. Follow for updates.
- Lucy Slade