Investigation
- Investigation
- AI
A $70 million mirage: Lessons from Australia’s biggest start-up blow-up
Strongroom AI raised $17 million at a $70 million valuation. Three weeks later, investors called the police.
- David Swan
Latest
- Exclusive
- Bidding blind
Fresh claims against suspended estate agent ‘Teflon’ Josh Tesolin as he launches new career
If the star agent thought he’d heard all allegations against him from the regulator, he’s about to hear about a lot more.
- Lucy Macken
- Investigation
- The Dust of Death
The dust of death
The dust from cutting engineered stone for Australian kitchens and bathrooms is killing our tradies.
- Exclusive
- Melbourne childcare crisis
A little girl was repeatedly raped at family daycare. Her mother says regulators took no action
A home-based daycare worker kept her Working with Children Check after her husband was arrested for sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl who was left unsupervised in their house.
- Carla Jaeger
- Investigation
- Organised crime
How baby formula investors became entangled with shady financial firms and organised crime
The company was on the cusp of a cash bonanza and ready to float on the Australian Stock Exchange. Now batches of its product are set to be sold at a pittance to go into pet food.
- Harriet Alexander
- Investigation
- To the bone
‘Consumer pays, consumer risks’: Florida ‘surgery mill’ plans for Australia
The company does thousands of operations a year around the world. Now an embattled surgeon wants to bring it here, sparking alarm.
- Charlotte Grieve
- Investigation
- AFL 2025
‘Dumbfounded’: The 26-year drought that highlights the AFL’s greatest challenge
Andrew Dillon says Australian rules needs to be a game for all Australians, not just some. So why aren’t Chinese and Indian migrants playing it, as the data and people reveal?
- Jake Niall
- Exclusive
- Workplace safety
Drunk engineers, ‘shoddy maintenance’, humiliated patients: Westpac Rescue fights to save reputation
NSW Ambulance assistant commissioner Cameron Edgar said the allegations were “confronting and difficult” for staff.
- Eryk Bagshaw and Patrick Begley
- Exclusive
- Extremism
Engineer. Teacher. Postie: The neo-Nazis who rallied in Sydney
Those who gathered on Saturday include a personal trainer, an English-as-a-second-language teacher and a former bar manager who is facing DV charges.
- Michael McGowan and Sherryn Groch
- Exclusive
- Property development
Sydney is in a housing crisis. So why did the planning minister block 1700 new homes?
A letter obtained by the Herald reveals developer giant Walker accused the government of “slowing” housing delivery to benefit one of its rivals.
- Michael McGowan
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