NewsBite

Investigation

Advertisement
Strongroom AI’s former chief executive Max Mito and co-founder Christopher Durre with EVP’s former partner Misha Saul in happier times.
  • 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

Josh Tesolin is set to be hit with a second suspension on Friday.

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
Benchtops made from engineered stone have become popular across the nation.

The dust of death

The dust from cutting engineered stone for Australian kitchens and bathrooms is killing our tradies.

Childcare authorities took no action against a woman who left a little girl alone at her daycare, where she was repeatedly raped.

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
Index image for Care A2 milk story

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
Dror Paley (left) and Munjed Al Muderis.

‘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
Advertisement
Balraj Singh, who was drafted to Adelaide 26 years ago, with six-year-old Memphis and 11-year-old Brooklyn.

‘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
Staff at Westpac Rescue have allegedly been left broken amid claims of sexual harassment, bullying and victimisation within the iconic organisation.

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
The identified participants at Saturday’s gathering at NSW Parliament.

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
Planning Minister Paul Scully intervened to stop the fast-tracked approval of almost 1,700 homes in south-west Sydney.

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

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/investigation-1qr