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Underworld figure Mick Gatto.

‘Clear breach’: Mick Gatto’s gifts fuelled concern he took union by the wrist

The underworld figure handed out Versace gold bracelets to CFMEU officials at restaurants and coffee shops in a gesture the union’s administrator says was inappropriate.

  • Nick McKenzie

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CSIRO chief executive Doug Hilton says the Smyth case highlights the need for reform.

Cancer research misconduct sparks calls for reform

The architect of Australia’s current research integrity system says it isn’t working.

  • Liam Mannix
Mark Smyth was once one of the nation’s most-lauded scientists.

‘Follow the mice’: How whistleblowers, secret lab videos brought down top scientist

Staff were scared taking on the celebrated leader who’d won millions in government funding, but eventually, they had enough.

  • Liam Mannix
NSW CFMEU chief Michael Crosby.

New CFMEU boss sets sights on housing amid cleanout and reset

The newly appointed boss of the NSW branch of the construction union will target government-funded apartment developments, while in Victoria factionalism is complicating a cleanout.

  • Nick McKenzie and David Marin-Guzman
Mark Smyth was once one of the nation’s most-lauded scientists.

The cancer drug, the faked data and the superstar scientist

An investigation can reveal the secret history of one of Australia’s top scientists, whose faked data underpins a drug now being given to patients.

  • Liam Mannix and William Davis
(From left) John Khoury, Nick Maric, and Mick Gatto. Maric has for years had Khoury and his business partner Gatto on a retainer to deal with the CFMEU.

$110,000 payment for union peace: Developer’s deal in spotlight amid fresh calls to clean up industry

A deal between a gangland associate and a Gold Coast developer has been revealed amid a call for action on “crime and corruption” in the construction industry.

  • Nick McKenzie and David Marin-Guzman
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Wapu Sonk was a driving force in delivering an NRL team to Papua New Guinea.

‘Forged’ and ‘fake’: PNG sport, business supremo hits out at corruption concerns

The man who led the bid that secured millions from the Australian government to support a new rugby league team has threatened legal action over a controversial letter.

  • Chris Barrett and Nick McKenzie
Joshua Dale Brown

How childcare providers led police on a wild goose chase for an alleged paedophile

Joshua Brown had been fired from at least three other childcare centres before he was arrested and had glaring errors on his CV, this masthead can reveal.

  • Sherryn Groch, Caroline Schelle and Carla Jaeger
PNG businessman Wapu Sonk, who led the Pacific Island nation’s bid to join the National Rugby League.

Man who won $600m from Albanese government for PNG rugby league embroiled in corruption scandal

The Australian government’s support was supposed to head off Chinese influence, but the suspect deal would have invited just that.

  • Nick McKenzie and Chris Barrett
ADF abuse claims. 

Our military harbours rapists. Where is the political outrage?

Neither side has much at all to say on the ongoing assaults against women by the very men tasked with assuring our security.

  • Jacqueline Maley

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