This Month
CFMEU organiser charged with threats to kill
The charges against the senior CFMEU organiser are the first since a joint investigation into the union.
- David Marin-Guzman and Nick McKenzie
August
He investigated murders, then got a law degree. Now he’s coming after bad execs
New Maddocks partner Dale McQualter swapped his gangland beat for a workplace and investigations practice at a big law firm.
- Maxim Shanahan
- Opinion
- Building Bad
Bogus email address shows Jacinta Allan’s CFMEU crackdown is a joke
The Victorian premier’s snap review of alleged criminal activity in the construction industry went 11 days without so much as an email address for whistleblowers to use. Until The Australian Financial Review asked about it.
- David Marin-Guzman
July
- Investigation
- Building Bad
‘Everybody eats’: secret recording exposes CFMEU kickback plan
Harry Korras was clear that to get a CFMEU EBA “there’s a fee. That’s business.” Meanwhile, police evidence mounts against John Setka’s anointed successor.
- Nick McKenzie, David Marin-Guzman, Ben Schneiders and Amelia Ballinger
Liberals still want vindication on Brittany Higgins saga
Suggestions we need to understand how the Higgins allegations affected the last election are telling. But satisfaction is unlikely.
- Myriam Robin
May
Students arrested in Queensland as protest encampments defy orders
Pro-Palestine student protesters have been arrested in Queensland while others in Melbourne have defied orders to vacate an occupied building.
- Gus McCubbing
April
Business braces for more disruption from Gaza protests
Arrests have been made as train stations, ports and parts of Australia’s biggest cities are blockaded by widespread protests against the war in Gaza.
- Patrick Durkin
March
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Dunkley sets up Labor’s 2025 win
While the Liberals look down rabbit holes like crime and refugees, Labor plans to claim vindication on economic policy.
- Craig Emerson
December 2023
Billion-dollar AFP busts reveal what criminals do with their money
A police taskforce has seized more than $1.1 billion worth of assets from alleged criminals, including fancy houses, fast cars, designer gear and bags of cash.
- Patrick Durkin
November 2023
Jockey Mark Zahra goes back-to-back on Without A Fight
Jockey Mark Zahra has won his second successive Melbourne Cup, riding Without A Fight to victory at Flemington.
- Zoe Samios and James Thomson
Porsche driver who filmed dying police wanted on new warrants
Police are seeking help to find Richard Pusey, who was banned from the financial services industry after recording the dying moments of four officers hit by a truck after pulling him over.
- William Ton
October 2023
Thousands rally in Sydney, Melbourne to support Palestinians
An attempted genocide was happening in Gaza, speakers at rallies in Sydney and Melbourne were told on Sunday. The protests were held under heavy police security and ended with no trouble reported.
- Maxim Shanahan
September 2023
Chinese students terrified as scammers reap millions
All scams are horrible, but what is going on here is particularly horrible, says the ACCC’s Catriona Lowe, as international students scammed of $8 million.
- Julie Hare
August 2023
- Exclusive
- Tax avoidance
Unpaid GST surge has helped blow a $50b hole in revenue
A near three-fold explosion in GST debt in the past six years is fuelling a surge in unpaid taxes.
- Neil Chenoweth and Max Mason
How the TikTok tax fraud overran a country town
At least 56,000 people are facing compliance action for a billion-dollar GST tax fraud spread by social media influencers.
- Neil Chenoweth and Max Mason
March 2023
Dutton challenges Albanese to ban Nazi symbols after Victorian rally
Peter Dutton has called on Anthony Albanese to ban Nazi symbols as Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming faces expulsion from the parliamentary party room.
- Andrew Tillett and Gus McCubbing
December 2022
Football Australia boss vows to ‘weed out’ Melbourne pitch invaders
It will issue Melbourne Victory with a show-cause notice, and says ‘clubs are ultimately responsible for their own spectators’.
- Updated
- Gus McCubbing
Fix ‘unaffordable, unsustainable’ housing to save Victorian Liberals
Vying for opposition leader, Brad Battin says the Liberal Party must target aspirational voters in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
- Gus McCubbing
November 2022
- Opinion
- Satire
State security: How to cast a safe vote in lockdown land
Just don’t call 000 for an ambulance in Victoria. There aren’t any.
- Rowan Dean
July 2022
Victorian Liberals seek to use IBAC to ‘stain’ Andrews
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews will face fresh pressure to respond to allegations of branch stacking and the misuse of taxpayer funds by the state Labor Party.
- Patrick Durkin