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Whistleblowers fear nothing has changed despite their harrowing testimonies about disability group homes.

Australia’s most vulnerable ‘run over’ and left ‘crawling on the ground bleeding’

Whistleblowers risked their careers to give evidence to a royal commission, but more than a year later, they fear nothing has changed. Warning: graphic content.

  • Carrie Fellner

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A Herald investigation can publish a cache of photographic and video evidence that documents alarming conditions inside Australia’s disability group homes.

A billion-dollar dirty secret: Homes hide ‘worst conditions you can imagine’

These homes are costing taxpayers an eye-watering amount, but behind closed doors they conceal disturbing scenes endured by vulnerable residents. Warning: Graphic content

  • Carrie Fellner
Caroline Heidemann, former WiseTech employee and Richard White 

Richard White’s accuser seeks special arrangement to fight her case

The woman who has accused WiseTech Global’s chairman of providing her with a visa in return for sex has been assisted by lawyers at Anti-Slavery Australia.

  • Max Mason and Kate McClymont
WiseTech Global’s founder Richard White.

Corporate cop eyes WiseTech as billionaire White retakes control

ASIC says it is making preliminary inquiries into WiseTech after a boardroom implosion and allegations against founder Richard White.

  • Kate McClymont and Colin Kruger
A 2023 video of a stormwater tunnel under Hawthorn before and after it was reinforced with concrete.

Beneath our feet: The hidden failures in Melbourne’s sewer tunnels

Collapsing sewer tunnels, botched repairs and a firm silenced for exposing failures — Melbourne Water faces scrutiny over hidden underground risks and wasted millions.

  • Clay Lucas
WiseTech founder Richard White.

WiseTech founder Richard White continued to quietly sell off shares

The disruption at the company, one of the country’s most successful technology groups, has sent the share price tumbling.

  • Max Mason and Kate McClymont
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Richard White’s personal life didn’t matter to investors … until it did.

WiseTech board purge triggers $10b share plunge as White scandals widen

Disgraced company founder Richard White has effectively been handed control of WiseTech after its independent board members quit, but the subsequent share plunge has cost him billions.

  • Colin Kruger
The fractious relationship of Richard White and Zena Nasser

The billionaire, his lawyer wife – and the secrets of their explosive relationship

Richard White says he would “take a bullet” for his wife but many of the billionaire’s long-time friends are unhappy about the couple’s volatile history.

  • Kate McClymont and Max Mason
WiseTech Global founder Richard White and wife Zena Nasser.

Billionaire Richard White backs away from questionable property deals amid board crisis talks

The beleaguered tech billionaire has called in a $70 million loan he gave to an associate of his wife’s ex-husband – a nut roaster from Lakemba.

  • Kate McClymont and Max Mason
WiseTech Global founder Richard White and former employee Caroline Heidemann.

Sex for visa: New allegations against billionaire Richard White

The woman alleges the billionaire founder of WiseTech Global created a situation of “economic dependency” and engaged in “unlawful conduct for sexual gratification”.

  • Kate McClymont and Max Mason

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