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Player manager Sam Ayoub, Samantha Johnson and former Australian rugby league representative Johnathan Thurston.

The star footballer, his manager and the explosive claims engulfing their academy

Johnathan Thurston and his long-time controversial manager Sam Ayoub are embroiled in an explosive lawsuit involving a former employee of their organisation.

  • Kate McClymont and Chris Barrett

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The Woollahra house sold last year for $10.6 million only for the deal to fall through.

Woollahra’s $10.6m failed sale offers a lesson in contract law

A Woollahra house that sold last year for a bullish result well above the $10 million guide has turned into a cautionary tale and presented a multimillion-dollar loss for the seller.

  • Lucy Macken
Sonja Boric is helping a family member who invested with Lion.

Investors take property group to court in search of missing millions

A group of investors has gone to the Supreme Court seeking to learn more about what has happened to money they invested in a series of syndicates.

  • Sarah Danckert
The late artist Martin Sharp in his studio at Wirian in 2012.

Over my dead body: Martin Sharp, Cranbrook and the $33m house

The late, great pop artist Martin Sharp made the point in his will that he didn’t want his long-held family home sold to Cranbrook. That’s too bad.

  • Lucy Macken
Tobacco tycoon Muh’d Alzoubi hid his face behind an ipad as he left Downing Centre Local Court on Friday.

Big fines v bigger business: tobacco’s lucrative side laid bare

It was business as usual in the industry last week: financial penalties were issued, authorities announced new measures and business boomed.

  • Lucy Macken
Mel Jefferies is suing her doctors.

As Mel’s gender ‘ricocheted’, she went under a surgeon’s knife

A young woman is suing the doctors who performed her gender treatment, claiming she could not have given informed consent.

  • Michael Bachelard
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Dubbo health.

Health bosses rack up $400,000 travel bill while patients wait for care

Staff at the service, which receives $10 million in taxpayer funding, say they are forced to turn away patients due to a critical shortage of doctors and nurses.

  • Angus Thomson
The Red Shop’s shelves might be empty but business is brisk through the window at the rear.

60 tobacconists for every McDonald’s: How Sydney’s streets became consumed by smoke shops

Take a walk down a main street in Sydney and you’ll notice that tobacco is still big business, even with less than 10 per cent of the population now smoking.

  • Lucy Macken and Riley Walter
John Changjin Li pictured at Lake Macquarie.

A couple is fighting over this $95m Point Piper mansion. Now a third party wants a share

The ownership behind one of the country’s most expensive houses has been frozen by the Supreme Court amid a series of high-stakes legal disputes.

  • Lucy Macken
Richard White and Christine Kontos in January 2022.

Former partner settles inappropriate conduct claim against billionaire Richard White

The billionaire and the company he co-founded have settled with a fourth woman, who claimed inappropriate conduct by White and his wife Zena Nasser.

  • Max Mason and Kate McClymont

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