Gillard lost job after investigation
JULIA Gillard left her job as a partner with law firm Slater & Gordon as a direct result of a secret internal probe in 1995.
Investigations
Low-doc clients denied access to forms
ONE of the lenders at the heart of the low-doc banking scandal will no longer provide borrowers with access to their application forms.
Cops wanted Gillard’s ex charged
DETECTIVES wanted former Australian Workers’ Union boss Bruce Wilson and his then alleged bagman, Ralph Blewitt, prosecuted over a fraud.
Union scandal: I’ll come clean
THE alleged bagman for a union financial scandal linked to the then boyfriend of Julia Gillard wants to give evidence for the first time to police.
Scandal refuses to die
THERE was something rotten with the AWU in the 90s and it’s time the truth came out.
Paternity firm hit over privacy breach
THE largest Australian company in the field of drug, alcohol and paternity testing has breached the Privacy Act.
Cosmetic surgeon to face charges
Medical regulators have found that a cosmetic surgeon with a history for gross negligence should not practise again.
Macquarie leaned on mortgage brokers
MACQUARIE Bank encouraged mortgage brokers to falsify loan applications and use loopholes to get loans approved.
Rip-off credit-card fees get the flick
SHOPS, airlines, taxis and websites will be banned from socking customers with “excessive” surcharges to pay by credit card.
Hope for mortgage ‘victims’
STRUGGLING homeowners could walk away from their mortgages as a series of court cases helps to expose widespread improper lending practices.
Strategy doubts for union super fund
A UNION superannuation fund for meatworkers owns almost 22 million shares in a speculative biotechnology company.
AFR email selection distorted picture
THE AFR and the BBC selected a handful of emails to paint a blatantly incorrect conspiracy theory about News Corporation.
Big banks forgive sub-prime debts
MANY of the nation’s biggest banks are being forced to forgive debts granted on the basis of false information about borrowers.
Payments to war victims top $39K
AUSTRALIAN soldiers are paying out more than $30,000 a year in damages claims to innocent victims of the war in Afghanistan.
Mulrunji questions remain
THE Bligh government may only have today to decide a $1 million claim for legal expenses incurred during the Palm Island saga.
Dam bursts on new evidence
THE floods inquiry has been recalled to hear new evidence that suggests the wrong strategy was used to manage Wivenhoe Dam.
Whistleblower ‘treated like leper’
THE nurse who exposed killer surgeon Jayant Patel says Queensland Health has treated her ‘like a leper’ ever since.
Farmers get dirty over invasion
LOCAL concerns are mounting as miners are moving in on the Darling Downs.
Overland office slammed over FOI
SIMON Overland’s Victoria Police has been slammed for rejecting a Freedom of Information request without legitimate reason.
Official failure leads to lives lost
COMMUNITY services have questions to answer over two youth suicides.
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