Investigations
Meet Australia’s most persistent scammer, now ascending to the cloud
Dominique Eva Grubisa made a career and a fortune out of what courts now say was misleading and deceptive conduct. Nothing, so far, can stop her.
- Michael Bachelard
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‘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
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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
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‘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
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‘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
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‘I saw houses for the first time’: Australia’s Syrian children tell us about their lives
After years in a wind-blown camp in north-eastern Syria, the girls say they just want to come back to this country.
- Michael Bachelard and Mohammed Hassan
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Sex toy claim, allegations of drugs on site to keep workers awake hit North East Link
The $26 billion North East Link has been hit by allegations of drug taking and sexually inappropriate behaviour, leading to an investigation from the project’s main consortium.
- Kieran Rooney
The inside story of how Australia became one of the most lucrative illicit tobacco markets in the world
An unprecedented look into how and why Australia has been plagued by a war for control of the multibillion-dollar tobacco trade, from Dubai to the streets of our largest cities.
- Chris Vedelago, Marta Pascual Juanola and The Visual Stories Team
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Rot on the yacht: Gatto throws a labour party on celeb’s yacht
Gangland figure Mick Gatto has been filmed sipping champagne with union powerbrokers as the CFMEU scandal rages and amid major questions for superannuation giant CBUS.
- Nick McKenzie and Kieran Rooney
‘Rotting from the top’: Bribery, drugs, bikies and billions of taxpayer dollars
The first detailed inquiry into the CFMEU’s conduct is a shocking litany of poor conduct fuelled with public money.
- Nick McKenzie