This Month
- Opinion
- Rear Window
Star dealmaker resigns after botched mid-air bathroom prank
A Corrs rainmaker resigned after a practical joke on another partner went wrong on a flight to Hobart.
- Mark Di Stefano
September
Scale of HWL Ebsworth hack revealed: 2.5m files, 65 agencies
Hackers have published about 1 million of the documents on the dark web, with some victims yet to be notified that their information was compromised in the April hack.
- Edmund Tadros
‘Transparency can be challenging’: firm delayed contacting hack victims
Cybersecurity co-ordinator Air Marshal Darren Goldie says there are times that being transparent about hacks needs to be balanced against causing harm and anxiety.
- Max Mason
- Opinion
- Cyber Summit
Labor’s throwing six cybersecurity shields around Australia
Co-ordinated national action to make the whole more protective than the sum of the parts is the best defence against digital attacks.
- Clare O'Neil
August
Man wins $300k damages in historic case against judge
Federal Circuit Court judge Salvatore Vasta has become the first judge to be successfully sued in Australia.
- Michael Pelly
How Fiji got a nasty lesson in Chinese authoritarianism
The Pacific nation watched in shock as Chinese security agents marched what it said were 77 criminal suspects onto a plane and flew them away for detention in China.
- Michael E. Miller and Matthew Abbott
Strong practical help for firms hit by cyberattack
Firms and public agencies hit by cyberattacks are being promised a quick, compassionate and discreet response, aimed at minimising harms, says cyber defence leader, Abigail Bradshaw
- Tom Burton
- Exclusive
- Tax avoidance
Unpaid GST surge has helped blow a $50b hole in revenue
A near three-fold explosion in GST debt in the past six years is fuelling a surge in unpaid taxes.
- Neil Chenoweth and Max Mason
ATO secrecy review expanded to cover TikTok fraud
A Treasury review into secrecy laws that bind the Tax Office will consider the fallout from a $1.6 billion tax fraud scheme executed via TikTok.
- Tom McIlroy, Neil Chenoweth and Max Mason
- Opinion
- Tax avoidance
Why consultants are now in the government’s crosshairs
The Albanese government says it will “clean up the mess” shown up by the PwC tax scandal. It’s targeting regulation of the consulting industry.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Updated
- PwC tax scandal
Labor cracks down after PwC scandal
The government revealed the biggest crackdown on tax adviser misconduct in history in response to the PwC tax leaks scandal.
- Neil Chenoweth and Edmund Tadros
AFP gave ‘wrong’ information on Dutton briefing
A top Federal Police officer says “tighter language” should have been used in a written response on what Peter Dutton was told about a foreign bribery investigation.
- Andrew Tillett and Neil Chenoweth
July
Dutton pressed to explain why bribery suspect was given detention deal
Anthony Albanese says Peter Dutton has to address “serious allegations” after police briefed him about a bribery investigation into a detention centre provider.
- Andrew Tillett
PwC trains 1300 staff on honesty and integrity (after a warning)
PwC has complied with an order to provide additional training to more than 1300 mostly tax-related partners and staff on their professional behaviour.
- Edmund Tadros
NACC work boom lures top cop out of retirement
Former Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission CEO Mike Phelan has joined Kroll ahead of a likely glut of work for departments liaising with the corruption body.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Robo-debt royal commission
Not all royal commissions are equal
The media are a lot more interested in scandals like robo-debt under a Coalition government than in Lawyer X under a Labor government in Victoria.
- John Roskam
PwC reveals partner pay, misconduct allegations
PwC Australia has revealed former chief executive Tom Seymour was the highest-paid partner at the firm, and that there were dozens of misconduct complaints against partners over the past five years.
- Updated
- Edmund Tadros
Disinformation crackdown not aimed at ‘censoring internet’
Regulators have defended planned laws targeting “fake news”, but acknowledge that social media companies have valid concerns.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Federal election
How welfare bashing exposed government at its worst
The Holmes royal commission’s recommendations are about replacing the meanness and political expediency of recent times with a spirit of serving the public.
- Updated
- Laura Tingle
- Exclusive
- PwC tax scandal
PwC names eight partners it says were involved in tax leaks scandal
PwC will remove eight veteran partners who it says were directly involved in the firm’s tax leaks scandal, or did not adequately address matters.
- Edmund Tadros
