July
‘Not a threat, it’s very real’: CFMEU retaliation tactics in focus
Victorian firms strong-armed into signing enterprise bargaining agreements say they are too afraid of speaking out against the CFMEU for fear of reprisals.
- Ronald Mizen
April
Higgins must accept there was no cover-up: Reynolds
Senator Linda Reynolds will proceed with her defamation lawsuit unless Brittany Higgins and David Sharaz accept Federal Court findings there was no cover-up of rape.
- Ronald Mizen
A rape, a cover-up narrative and a political firestorm
“Tonight, claims of rape, roadblocks to a police investigation, and a young woman forced to choose between her career and the pursuit of justice”. That is how Ten introduced its interview with Brittany Higgins.
- Ronald Mizen
- Updated
- Lehrmann trial
Higgins, Sharaz should settle with ‘vindicated’ Reynolds: Dutton
The opposition leader says Brittany Higgins and her fiancé David Sharaz should settle the senator’s defamation actions against them and issue a “full apology”.
- Ronald Mizen
February
Joyce an embarrassment like Les Patterson: Labor MP
Labor MP Tania Lawrence likens Barnaby Joyce to Sir Les Patterson and suggests he reconsider his position an MP.
- Phillip Coorey and Cindy Yin
November 2022
Anglo, Peabody, Glencore targeted in fake-coal claims
Some coal giants have rejected allegations of forcing labs to manipulate the results of tests on coal.
- Liam Walsh
October 2022
The scandals and hypocrisy behind McKinsey’s sterling reputation
A new book shatters the luminous image that has long been attached to the consulting giant.
- Michael Bobelian
July 2022
Google sacks engineer who claimed its AI was conscious
The company, which denies that its chatbot language model is sentient, had placed Blake Lemoine on paid leave in June.
- Nico Grant
Wirecard forged client details to secure $1.3b SoftBank investment
Details of the deception show the lengths to which Wirecard went to secure investment from the Japanese investment conglomerate.
- Olaf Storbeck, Robert Smith and Dan McCrum
May 2022
SolGold’s new broom finds historic funds ‘misappropriation’
Millions of dollars were allegedly misappropriated over the past five years within the ranks of BHP and Newcrest’s Ecuadorian copper punt.
- Updated
- Peter Ker
January 2022
Boris Johnson’s wife drawn into ‘partygate’ scandal
Boris Johnson’s troubles have deepened amid revelations his wife was photographed breaking COVID-19 social distancing rules days after public warnings.
- Edward Malnick
- Opinion
- UK leadership
Cavalier and malevolent: The real Boris Johnson
The scandal surrounding the UK Prime Minister’s staff holding parties while the rest of Britain was in lockdown should prove fatal for his premiership.
- Camilla Cavendish
- Opinion
- Opinion
For Boris Johnson, the party really may be over this time
Even if the British Prime Minister can get past the immediate crisis it is hard to see how he can recover his authority and popularity.
- Updated
- Robert Shrimsley
December 2021
- Exclusive
- Perth Mint
Richard Hayes leaves Perth Mint after $100m tech blowout
Mint director John Collins, former chief of the WA Treasury Corporation, is temporarily acting as CEO.
- Jessica Sier
July 2021
Ex-lover sues Spain’s former king over ‘unlawful surveillance’
Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein has accused the former monarch of harassment ‘from 2012 until the present time’, including threats and defamation, and ‘unlawful covert and overt surveillance’.
- Updated
- Daniel Dombey
June 2021
- Analysis
- Coronavirus pandemic
Hypocrisy, not snogging, brought down UK health secretary
Matt Hancock resigned after photographs showed him passionately kissing his mistress in the ministry’s headquarters when Britons were being implored to socially distance.
- Jennifer Hassan, Antonia Noori Farzan and William Booth
UK health minister apologises for virus breach in affair with aide
Matt Hancock was pictured kissing a woman he appointed to his department but says he won’t resign.
- Tim Ross and Emily Ashton
March 2021
Brian Hartzer on how to survive losing your job
Brian Hartzer says facing the shareholder fury caused by the bank’s money-laundering scandal was not the worst thing that’s happened to him.
- Sally Patten
January 2021
- Opinion
- Opinion
Fake kindness is just insulting
It sounds old fashioned but sometimes good old-fashioned kindness is all that’s needed.
- Suzanne Moore
French intellectual accused of sexual abuse of stepson
Powerful taboos and cozy relationships are beginning to crumble, revealing dark secrets long held close by some in the Parisian intellectual and artistic elite.
- Roger Cohen