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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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*FILES* HAWAII, UNITED STATES - NCA NewsWire Photos - SEPTEMBER 21, 2022: General generic editorial stock image of Waikiki, Honolulu in Hawaii, United State of America. Australian budget airline Jetstar has apologised to its customers following a string of cancellations, leaving holidaymakers stranded, promising improvements ahead of the Christmas period. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Nicholas Eagar

CEO’s tropic getaway as Openmarkets flayed

Openmarkets copped ASIC’s largest ever fine totalling $4.5m, but its new CEO was surprisingly silent – mainly because he was sunning himself in Hawaii.

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Former Victorian labor minister Tim Holding with his fiance Felicity Selkirk at Château de Purnon, an extraordinary Louis XVI chateau in Vienne, France that they bought in 2020 for $1.19m and have been restoring. The chateau was crumbling when they bought it.Picture: Supplied/Chateau de Purnon Facebook page

Chateau shameless: Ex-MP passes cap for French renos

Engaged to an heiress and replete with his $150,000 pension, ex-Victorian Labor MP Tim Holding’s vanity project restoration of a French chateau has brought him home to mooch for more.

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Founder of Australian company, Scale Facilitation, David Collard in the One World Trade Center office. Pic Abby Holden

Collard still tardy on Scale pay

Suppliers and employees of David Collard’s Scale Facilitation are still awaiting payment despite officials saying on the record it would be sorted by June 30.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire photos AUGUST 17, 2022: Ex Prison guard Wayne Astill at Downing Centre Court in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dylan Coker

Police to probe jail rapes cover-up

Prison staff who worked with former corrections officer Wayne Astill have been referred to NSW Police after inquiries heard allegations they had covered-up the rape of female inmates for years.

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DAILY TELEGRAPH 15TH JUNE 2022Pictured at the Icare offices on Kent Street in Sydney is Icare CEO Richard Harding.Mr Harding says that there will be a huge number of mental health claims from workers across NSW over the coming months and employers need to act now before its too late.Picture: Richard Dobson

Icare’s FIFO execs are all old chums

When it comes to locale, Insurance and Care NSW chief Richard Harding’s appointees are a disparate bunch who are based everywhere – except actually in NSW.

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Bailed-out icare proves snap happy with staff

There’s no greater bastion of awful decision-making in the NSW public service than Insurance and Care NSW, the compensation insurer that required a $1.9bn bailout last year.

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Former premier John Brumby donned the goggles to try out FLAIM Systems virtual reality firefighting training equipment at Deakin's ManuFutures on Wednesday 29 March. Picture: Alan Barber

Brumby courted for Scyne chair

The rebranded PwC consulting business is said to be reaching the conclusion of recruitment talks with former Victorian premier John Brumby.

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KATHERINE DEVES VISITS SYDNEY JEWISH MUSEUM, , Liberal candidate for Warringah Katherine Deves visited the Sydney Jewish Museum on Friday following an invitation by NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Darren Bark and Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Peter Wertheim. L/R Alissa Foster, Katherine Deves, Darren Bark

Bark feels the bite at Deputies

There’s major upheaval under way at the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, where CEO Darren Bark has been put on unexpected leave just over two years after his appointment.

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Dozens more women accuse rapist guard who instilled terror

Wayne Astill may be one of Australia’s worst serial sex offenders, as more than 30 additional alleged victims come forward and the government quietly settles their civil cases.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos - 29 JUNE, 2023: Former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian pictured as she leaves home in Sydney on the day her ICAC findings are handed down. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Monique Harmer

ICAC ruling may prompt lawsuit from Berejiklian

Gladys Berejiklian weighs an extraordinary legal challenge to corruption findings levelled by the state’s anti-corruption watchdog.

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