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Former criminal barrister turned police informer Nicola Gobbo.

Law firm’s database bungle left crucial Lawyer X documents lying hidden

A search blunder meant hundreds of documents about Victoria Police’s conduct in the Lawyer X scandal weren’t discovered until last year.

  • Cameron Houston and Chris Vedelago

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High profile Qantas critic Senator Bridget McKenzie.

High-profile Qantas critic Bridget McKenzie suddenly lets the praise fly

Enmities were on hold as the spirit of the Olympics blossomed. The prime minister even gave Peter Dutton a lift.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
High profile Qantas critic Senator Bridget McKenzie

How our Olympians brought Albo and Dutton together – but not for long

The airline’s senate tormentor-in-chief Bridget McKenzie became Qantas’ cheerleader for a day, while Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton flew to Sydney together.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
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Controversy surrounds law firm CEO’s $63 million payday

Corrs Chambers Westgarth’s partners will be asked to approve a pay deal this week granting CEO Gavin MacLaren a yearly salary of more than $7 million for the next nine years.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Justin Riazaty, a Post Graduate Law Student at Melbourne University, is planning on suing the Melbourne university student union for their motion calling on Melbourne University to boycott and divest from Israel.

Student union ‘doubles down on anti-Semitism’ with fresh boycott call

University of Melbourne Student Union stirs up fresh legal storm by reviving a motion calling for a boycott of Israeli institutions.

  • Nicole Precel
Gina Rinehart and her company Hancock Prospecting, started by her father Lang (inset far right), is defending claims to its Hope Downs iron ore tenement in the Pilbara from Wright Prospecting, started by Peter Wright (inset left).

How a court avoided a 'spectre', but pierced a veil hanging over WA's clash of the dynasties

Mining heiress Bianca Rinehart has found herself in a legal form of 'check' after an alleged attempt to out manoeuvre her mother, Hancock Prospecting magnate Gina Rinehart, in their ongoing Western Australian lawsuits over Hope Downs was avoided by a New South Wales court.

  • Aja Styles
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John Denton is the first Australian secretary-general of the International Chamber of Commerce.

'Onshoring' manufacturing after pandemic will drive up prices: ICC boss John Denton

The Australian head of the world's largest business organisation says appetite among world leaders to solve problems together has "all but evaporated".

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