Botched kidnap as cigarette price drives illicit trade
Crime syndicates are hitting back at efforts to combat the booming illicit tobacco trade.
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Nick McKenzie
Nick McKenzie is a Fairfax investigative journalist whose work appears regularly in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. He is a three-time winner of the prestigious Walkley Award, Australia's highest journalism honour.
News Corp journalist received payments from controversial gambler
A well-known sports reporter has received payments from Eddie Hayson, the controversial gambler alleged to be at the centre of some of the most sensational betting scandals in rugby league and racing.
The mafia, metadata and me
When the phone vibrated in my pocket in September 2007, I had no idea the incoming call would plunge me into the middle of Australia's biggest mafia investigation in decades.
This FIFA story stinks, and you don't need to be a lawyer to know that
$500,000 payment by Australia to allegedly corrupt Jack Warner raises many questions.
Anti-corruption agencies under the gun around Australia
Anti-corruption commissions are under threat across the nation and the possibility that NSW Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas might be charged for allegedly lying to an Ombudsman's inquiry highlights again the debate around the powers granted to anti-graft agencies.
Libs' link to market Mafia man
The dining room over-looking the boats bobbing in the Docklands' marina was buzzing on the first evening in March last year.