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Richard White was heard on teh recording offering an employee $5million tax-free.

The phone call, the $5m cash offer – and insider trading allegations

A recording of billionaire Richard White apparently trying to settle with an employee who complained about his conduct has been sent to the corporate regulator.

  • Kate McClymont and Max Mason

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Some of the Iranians applying to stay in Australia.

Iranian soccer players got asylum overnight. These refugees reveal a very different story

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke’s intervention was swift and decisive. But it was bittersweet for other refugees trapped in a system described as cruel and unfair.

  • Bevan Shields
The row of four terraces on Crown Street, Surry Hills, was incorrectly shown to be on 597 square metres. The site is 297 square metres.

‘I want my $1m back’: Wealthy cattle baron in legal fight with valuer general

As typos go, the one issued to Theo Onisforou turned out to be an expensive one.

  • Lucy Macken
Rising taxes on tobacco over several years created a black market that became so lucrative that transnational crime gangs battled for control of it. One is led by Kazem “Kaz” Hamad.

‘We handed over billions to organised crime’: How official neglect and incompetence fuelled the tobacco war

Despite repeated warnings that rising tobacco taxes would hand a fortune to organised crime, governments watched a multibillion-dollar black market explode.

  • Chris Vedelago and Marta Pascual Juanola
Dominique Grubisa is arguably one of Australia’s most persistent scammers.

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
Alcoa, Perth drinking water concerns, Water Corporation, Freedom of Information, main image, WAtoday.

Lack of oversight at Alcoa’s mines raises concerns over Perth’s drinking water

Documents show Water Corporation was locked out of Alcoa’s mining sites in state forest, while several state government departments were also keeping them in the dark.

  • Holly Thompson
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Micky Ahuja at Tuesday’s bizarre press conference.

Agitated, exasperated and facing an accusation avalanche: Security boss in bizarre press event

Micky Ahuja’s defence essentially boils down to a view that he is simultaneously the most unlucky and most unfairly targeted man in the nation.

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The former police officer couldn't stay silent any longer about her treatment at the hands of her former boss.
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Sara couldn't forget, now she's unmasking Micky the monster

The former police officer couldn't stay silent any longer about her treatment at the hands of her former boss.

Australian gamblers helped snare a $US95 million jackpot.

‘Schoolboy maths’: How Australian gamblers beat the Texas lottery

It’s been called “the biggest theft” in the history of Texas, but the syndicate says lottery officials helped it win a jackpot worth $141 million.

  • Patrick Begley
A bribery plot is seen as part of a broader attempt to undermine the CFMEU administration.

$50,000 in an envelope: Bribe allegedly offered to withdraw intimidation claim

Sydney crime figures are suspected to be behind the plot that was allegedly aimed at silencing a victim of a building industry standover racket.

  • Nick McKenzie