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Nick McKenzie

Nick McKenzie

Nick McKenzie is an Age investigative journalist who has three times been named the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year. A winner of 20 Walkley Awards, including the Gold Walkley, he investigates politics, business, foreign affairs and criminal justice.

The federal court has urgently frozen the sprawling property portfolio of disgraced Australian private security boss Micky Ahuja.

Property millions frozen: Scandal-plagued founder’s press conference backfires

A court has put an interim freeze on more than 30 properties belonging to failed security company boss Micky Ahuja after he said he planned to sell them.

  • Nick McKenzie and Cameron Houston

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Witnesses ‘threatened’: AFP sounds underworld alarm on CFMEU probe

A senior federal police officer has warned its investigation into the construction industry is being hampered by threats from organised crime figures.

  • Nick McKenzie and Rachel Eddie
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan

CFMEU disruption did not blow North East Link’s budget, says premier

The consortium building the 10-kilometre project had complained to the government in March 2023 that the union’s mischief had pushed back tunnelling by as much as two months.

  • Rachel Eddie and Nick McKenzie
Then-minister Jacinta Allan with Kevin Devlin at a press event in 2021.

Who knew and what it cost: Interstate infrastructure chiefs face grilling on CFMEU

Queensland’s commission of inquiry is lining up evidence from a high-powered board of public officials.

  • Nick McKenzie and Rachel Eddie
Premier Jacinta Allan refused to say how many times she had been warned about criminal behaviour on government building sites.

North East Link builders told government CFMEU was holding up construction

The Spark consortium raised complaints in 2023 about CFMEU obstruction on the $26 billion project, a revelation that puts further pressure on premier Jacinta Allan.

  • Rachel Eddie, Sumeyya Ilanbey, Kieran Rooney and Nick McKenzie
Victoria’s top infrastructure official Kevin Devlin is said to have repeatedly warned Jacinta Allan about problems with the CFMEU before the Building Bad expose.

Infrastructure boss ‘warned’ Allan as CFMEU ran rampant

Sources say the Big Build’s top public servant repeatedly raised concerns in private about industrial trouble on the government’s sites.

  • Nick McKenzie, Sumeyya Ilanbey and Kieran Rooney
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Security industry expert Graham Manson.

‘Crooks, shams and dodginess’: Security sector demands overhaul to keep public safe

Experts have lined up to warn that MA Services Group is far from alone in exploiting gaps in the regulation of a critical service.

  • Nick McKenzie, Cameron Houston and Jessica McSweeney
Three of Mickyy Ahuja’s accusers, two of whom worked for him.

Micky the ‘monster’: The women behind the unravelling of a business high-flyer

It was the bravery of women speaking out that ultimately sealed the fate of a once-celebrated entrepreneur.

  • Nick McKenzie, Cameron Houston and Garry McNab
Nick McKenzie confronts an associate of Micky Ahuja.

‘Let me hook you up’: $100m probe no hurdle for disgraced security high-flyer

As politicians line up to blast Coles over its use of Micky Ahuja’s security company, a sting operation has caught the disgraced company boss thumbing his nose at the Australian authorities.

  • Nick McKenzie, Cameron Houston, Garry McNab and Nick Newling
Labour Hire Authority’s Steve Dargavel has lashed Coles over its use of MA Services Group.

‘Alley cat morals’: Coles sprayed over $50m contract that exploited workers

The supermarket giant has been accused of signing up for the “comprehensive abuse” of the nation’s industrial relations and tax systems.

  • Nick McKenzie, Cameron Houston and Garry McNab