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Watchdog lays fraud charges over hospital project
Victorian corruption investigators have laid more than two dozen fraud charges against the former construction manager of the $630 million Bendigo Hospital project
Victorian corruption investigators have laid more than two dozen fraud charges against the former construction manager of the $630 million Bendigo Hospital project
Three men whose passports were confiscated after ASIO warned they posed a potential national security threat secured jobs at an air freight depot next to Melbourne Airport.
Sitting in the NSW district court dock last week, Nathan Rogers appeared a shadow of the peace-preaching member of the Bra Boys surf gang.
A year after the watchdog stepped in, vocational education scheme rorters have learned some new tricks, allegedly falsifying English language tests and skirting bans on free laptops.
Slain gangland lawyer and Mafia associate Joe Acquaro spent two decades cultivating and donating to senior Liberal politicians on behalf of alleged crime figures, even having a private meeting with Malcolm Turnbull.
Burger giant McDonald's is underpaying its Australian workers tens of millions of dollars a year under a cosy deal struck with Labor's largest union affiliate that excluded weekend penalty rates.
A Chinese government-backed propaganda unit and a swag of companies that stand to gain from the China Australia Free Trade Agreement have made more than half a million dollars of political donations in Victoria.
A network of Australian border security officials is allegedly working for organised criminals, including drug and tobacco smugglers, in the most serious corruption scandal to ever hit the nation's border agencies.
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Jeff Kennett helped create a toll road monster. Now he says we are being ''ripped off'' and Transurban executives are 'laughing underwater'.
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In a day of dramatic developments the Monaco company at the centre of Fairfax Media's global bribery revelations has been raided by police.
Anti-corruption experts in the US and Europe have urged Australia to properly resource and empower its anti-bribery regime as Australia emerges as the "dumping ground" for dirty money from Asia.
Australia should have a Serious Fraud and Corruption Office to tackle corporate crime and building industry rorts, according to the head of the nation's leading anti-corruption group.
ABC board member Dr Kirstin Ferguson is under increasing pressure over her handling of a whistleblower who alerted her to a corruption scandal being covered-up by Australian corporate giant Leighton Holdings.
The Salvation Army has effectively urged Tamil asylum seekers on Manus Island to go home because: "You will never live in Australia".
One of Bill Shorten's closest political allies has inflated his union's membership levels in an apparent bid to boost the union's clout in the ALP and prop up the opposition leader's dominant right faction
A major supplier to supermarket giant Woolworths paid workers a pittance and threatened they would be replaced by machines
The state government approved regional grants to help the expansion of a business run by a wealthy horse-racing partner of Premier Denis Napthine despite advice that use of the funds was inappropriate.
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