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Yoni BashanMargin Call Editor

Yoni Bashan is the editor of the agenda-setting column Margin Call. He began his career at The Sunday Telegraph and has won multiple awards for crime writing and specialist investigations. In 2014 he was seconded on a year-long exchange to The Wall Street Journal. His non-fiction book The Squad was longlisted for the Walkley Book Award. He was previously The Australian’s NSW political correspondent.

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Screen grabs - Mass stabbing perpetrator 40-year-old Joel Cauchi. is attended to by police after he attacked and murdered multiple victims. The man, identified as 40-year-old Joel Cauchi, was shot dead by NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott. Picture - Twitter

Time line of a murderous rampage inside busy shopping centre

The first confirmed sighting of Joel Cauchi was outside a Woolworths supermarket. What unfolded next.

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AT HOME WITH IMAGES FOR AT HOME MAGAZINE , Global Focus with Christopher Pyne airs Sundays at 5:30pm AEDT on Sky News

Pyne’s people playing both sides

Christopher Pyne is known for signing up a range of clients, but a recent engagement is raising eyebrows.

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From internal affairs to infernal silence at ACIC

An inquiry into senior staff of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission turns its attention to the behaviour of another four workers.

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President of the Library Board of Victoria John Wylie is retiring after 9 years in the role. John Wylie in the LaTrobe Reading Room. Picture: David Caird

This bloke’s got more hide than a Sumatran rhino

One-time backer turned serial hater John Wylie’s hypocrisy is laid bare in new memo, as Lendlease’s CEO makes a bizarre admission.

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Dan Andrews (6th from right) standing with VietJet President and CEO Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao (5th from right).

Daniel Andrews’ new role: advising his old mates

The former Victorian premier helped ink a deal for a low-budget Vietnamese airline to fly into Victoria. Now, post-politics, he’s doing advisory work for them.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. MAY 4TH, 2023. Grace Tame, advocate for survivors of child sexual abuse, in Adelaide with South Australian Attorney-General Kyam Maher, Greens MLC Tammy Franks and SA-BEST MLC Connie Bonaros. Picture: NCA NewsWire/ Kelly Barnes

Grace Tame Foundation accounts late … again

For the second year running the organisation has failed to promptly lodge its accounts with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission. Too busy with the paperwork?

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FILE PIX - NCA NewsWire Photos - 21 FEBRUARY, 2024: Qantas has announced two new board members, including a new Chairman, as part of its ongoing renewal. John Mullen will join the Qantas Board from 1 July 2024 as Non-Executive Director and Chairman Elect, and will assume the role of Chairman ahead of the Company’s Annual General Meeting this October. Mullen is pictured here at a Telstra AGM when he was CEO. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Aaron Francis

Dishing out Scyne slice to ‘partners’

Allegro bought Scyne for $1 which is bemusing as the PwC spin-off has $9m worth of stock incentives it’s sharing among ‘partners’ to ensure their loyalty.

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Chris Stone, State Director for the NSW Liberal Party.Please credit Lee Hamilton.

No Stone unturned in Liberal Party’s accounts

Former NSW Liberal Party director Chris Stone retired last year, so why is he still receiving payments from the party’s management services business?

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5th anniversary of the Packer Family FoundationPictured: Gretel Packer Picture: Robert Edwards

Gretel Packer in new play in property

Packer’s insatiable desire to invest in real estate has seen her acquire a big stake in property funds manager Aliro Group.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 15: Malcolm Turnbull, former Prime Minister of Australia and his wife Lucy Hughes Turnbull attend the State Memorial for Barry Humphries at the Sydney Opera House on December 15, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. Barry Humphries was a renowned comedian, actor, author and satirist known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He died aged 89 on 22 April 2023. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

Knock ’em down Lucy Turnbull eyes rebuild

Plans have been lodged with Woollahra Council for a $2.5m development of a two-storey Victorian terrace that’s been in the family for more than 50 years.

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