Today
WiseTech founder accused of helping employee for sexual favours
A former employee is suing the billionaire, claiming he engaged in “unlawful conduct for sexual gratification”, but he says the relationship was consensual.
- Kate McClymont and Max Mason
This Month
- Investigation
- Governance
‘I’ve been too trusting’: Richard White responds to new allegations
The software giant said last year that its founder would enter into a decade-long consulting arrangement. Four months later, they still don’t have a deal.
- Max Mason and Kate McClymont
January
- Investigation
- Cryptocurrencies
We made our own meme coin. This is what happened next
Donald Trump has one. So does Melania. Both have created huge paper wealth. With Johnnycoin, we tested just how easy it was to get a meme coin off the ground.
- Jonathan Shapiro
December 2024
- Investigation
- Healthcare
Diagnosed in 10 minutes. Inside Australia’s ADHD industrial complex
Prescriptions for ADHD drugs have doubled in the past four years and private clinics are cashing in. Doctors fear profits are taking priority over patient care.
- Michael Smith
Fortescue’s Game of Thrones moment
When the firm’s troubled Iron Bridge mine blew its budget and fell behind schedule, Andrew Forrest called a meeting likened to the series’ “red wedding” scene.
- Primrose Riordan
- Investigation
- Governance
Inside the ‘unending chaos’ at Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue
After a frenetic world tour, the billionaire had to wind back his hydrogen plans. A Financial Review investigation looks at what led to an exodus of executives.
- Primrose Riordan
- Investigation
- CFMEU
How builders got captured by the CFMEU’s $1.2b redundancy fund
Master Builders Victoria’s solvency relies on millions of dollars in grants from the John Setka-backed Incolink fund, which whistleblowers say has created a huge conflict of interest.
- David Marin-Guzman
- 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.
- Max Mason, Kate McClymont and Nick McKenzie
November 2024
- 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.
- Max Mason, Kate McClymont and Nick McKenzie
- Investigation
- Mining
The $45m MinRes property deal – with the Ellisons on the other side
Investors in the iron ore and lithium miner would have had no idea that MinRes’ joint venture partner in a big Perth real estate play was the company’s founder.
- Neil Chenoweth and Mark Di Stefano
ASIC expands probe into ANZ’s alleged bond market manipulation
The top corporate regulator has told a parliamentary joint committee the investigation is of the “highest priority” and will include the misreporting of data.
- Jonathan Shapiro
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.
- Max Mason, Kate McClymont and Nick McKenzie
- Updated
- Billionaires
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.
- Max Mason, Kate McClymont and Nick McKenzie
- 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
- Kate McClymont, Max Mason and Nick McKenzie
- 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.
- Nick McKenzie, Max Mason and Kate McClymont
- Exclusive
- Wisetech Global
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.
- Max Mason, Kate McClymont, Tess Bennett and Anne Hyland
- 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.
- Nick McKenzie, Max Mason and Kate McClymont
- Exclusive
- ANZ Bank
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
September 2024
- Investigation
- Insolvency
The Beverly Hills wannabes and the betrayal of Ballarat
The collapse of a small-town gold mine has revealed how millions of dollars flowed to a network of Chinese businessmen. Now liquidators want the money back.
- Peter Ker
- 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
- Nick McKenzie, David Marin-Guzman and Kate McClymont