Today
- Exclusive
- Regulation
ASIC investigates ANZ over Treasury trades
The corporate regulator acted after receiving a complaint from the Australian Office of Financial Management, which raises government debt, sources said.
Yesterday
Palestinians’ aggressive lobbying upset Labor but it worked
Australia’s decision to support Palestinian UN membership follows seven months of intense, and aggressive, lobbying by a network of activists.
This Month
After losing a deal, Stokes’ newspaper pursued Forrest
The West Australian published dozens of critical articles about Fortescue’s founder after he refused to buy trucks from a related company.
- Updated
Sydney couple down $700,000 trying to demolish old house
Ali and Amanda Hassan are fighting a long and costly battle with their council to convert a run-down dental surgery into a modern duplex.
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Chalmers came to Sydney, left his humility in Canberra
The treasurer promotes the national security benefits of protectionism, but can’t explain how his government can find better investments than the private sector.
April
A judge may decide if Pauline Hanson is a white supremacist
The far-right senator’s career of racial commentary is on trial in the Federal Court.
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Albanese’s new fund manager CEO doubles down on meetings
The new $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund is already doing strange things, including holding its first two board meetings on the same day.
- Opinion
- Pay
Musk wants $87b. Tesla’s Aussie chair is defying a court to help him
Robyn Denholm is asking investors to over-rule a judge who cancelled the biggest pay package in history for an AWOL chief executive.
- Analysis
- Legal industry
Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyer, Mark O’Brien, is on a losing streak
Losses in high-profile cases have experts wondering if Sydney’s client-friendly defamation culture is changing.
- Analysis
- Lehrmann trial
The stupidity of Bruce Lehrmann
The ex-political adviser turned victory into defeat in the quest for money. He will now be known as the rapist who put himself on trial, and lost.
Male mentors drove Mostyn’s career, but she influenced them too
The next governor-general is best known as an advocate for professional women. She also had influential male mentors.
- Opinion
- ALP
Albanese is setting the Labor Party up for failure
The prime minister’s Future Made in Australia plan is part of a shift to bigger government and higher taxes that will sap support for the government – eventually.
Seven paid for Lehrmann’s story. Now it is the story
The television network’s pursuit of an interview with the accused rapist has put its tactics on trial.
- Analysis
- Legal industry
Ex-Seven producer: ‘I have let you down and I am devastated’
Taylor Auerbach was assigned to look after Bruce Lehrmann for the Seven Network. He came to bitterly regret the job.
- Analysis
- Defamation
Ten flips the Higgins narrative against Seven
Judge Michael Lee must decide if a man who may have lied to his lawyers, judges and the public has a reputation worthy of being protected.
- Opinion
- Venture capital
Sayers knows the importance of trust. Has he lost his in PwC scandal?
The former chief executive came off badly from a Senate inquiry, undermining years spent carefully cultivating a reputation for integrity.
- Exclusive
- China
BHP executive criticises Xi, predicts China’s decline
Chief economist Huw McKay says Xi Jinping’s ideological grip over state-owned enterprises is hurting the Asian superpower.
March
- Opinion
- Pharmaceuticals
Another win for the monopolists
A law to shield pharmacists from competition will take Queensland back to the last century.
- Updated
- Exclusive
- ATO
The day a 34-year-old Sydneysider got a $116m tax bill
The Tax Office’s pursuit of a wealthy Taiwanese-Sydney family illustrates how investigations that take years can suddenly accelerate.
- Opinion
- Political leadership
The five worst decisions this century by politicians
Important lessons can be learned from foreseeable stuff-ups that were so bad that the leaders who made them don’t deserve to be forgiven.
