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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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WiseTech co-founder and current executive chairman, Richard White, and his chief executive Zubin Appoo at the company’s AGM on Friday.

AI job losses hit Australia hard as software giant WiseTech axes 2000 jobs

The country’s largest locally listed technology firm is cutting about one-third of its workforce amid fears in the financial markets that AI will eat well-paid white-collar jobs.

  • David Swan
New AI tools could threaten the future of Australian giants like Atlassian, Canva and Xero.

AI is eating software, and it’s cost Atlassian duo $34.6 billion

Investors have finally woken up to the risk that artificial intelligence won’t just kill white-collar jobs, it also threatens tech success stories.

  • Colin Kruger
WiseTech’s billionaire founder and CEO Richard White.

Tech billionaire Richard White’s nine lives are starting to run out

The potential pickle White could face from share trading investigations should not be downplayed, even if it feels less salacious than his private life.

  • Elizabeth Knight
WiseTech founder Richard White.

No repercussions for WiseTech billionaire who misled the board

Richard White will remain executive chairman of WiseTech despite his fellow board members confirming that he misled an internal investigation into his alleged misconduct.

  • Colin Kruger and Clancy Yeates
Gina Edwards and Oscar the cavoodle after she won her defamation case against Nine.

Top barrister Arthur Moses drafted into celebrity cavoodle dogfight

The legal profession’s equivalent of an 800-pound gorilla has wandered into a case that all began with a very small dog.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Madeleine Heffernan
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Criminal defence lawyer Michael Kuzilny on The Morning Show.

TV lawyer faces legal action over alleged workplace sexual advances

Criminal defence lawyer-slash-TV legal eagle Michael Kuzilny may need to start following his own advice that “tough times never last, tough people do”.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Tom Cowie
Richard White with his wife, Zena Nasser. The pair married in the US in 2024.

It was billionaire v the board at WiseTech. Guess who won

The software giant’s board exodus is a clear demonstration that money trumps optics. Key man risk doesn’t come any riskier than Richard White - but he and his allies call the shots.

  • Elizabeth Knight
WiseTech founder Richard White at the company’s investor day.

Richard White says resignation a ‘circuit-breaker’ for WiseTech

The billionaire executive says it was his own idea to step down from the company he founded 30 years ago, amid probes into his behaviour.

  • David Swan
WiseTech Global founder Richard White and wife Zena Nasser.

‘Deal of a lifetime’: The nut roaster, the two husbands and the curious Sydney property sale

The transaction is a glimpse into the relationship between embattled WiseTech founder Richard White and his wife Zena Nasser, a former criminal lawyer.

  • Kate McClymont, Max Mason and Nick McKenzie