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Sex, sleaze and hospitality
Swillhouse festival on edge of collapse as company pleads with staff and suppliers
The company said it was “heartbroken” by the sexual assault allegations as it pleaded with staff and suppliers not to abandon them.
- by Bianca Hrovat and Eryk Bagshaw
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Sex, sleaze and hospitality
Swillhouse scandal: The sordid bet that unfolded behind the bank vault door at Baxter Inn
Graphic content: When hospitality group Swillhouse opened a new whisky bar, the all-male team was issued a challenge: a special prize for being to the first to have sex with a customer.
- by Bianca Hrovat and Eryk Bagshaw
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Sex, sleaze and hospitality
Swillhouse CEO Anton Forte stands down from restaurant association board
Revelations in a Herald and Good Food investigation triggered immediate industry blowback as sponsors, artists and partners pulled out of Swillhouse’s upcoming festival.
- by Eryk Bagshaw and Bianca Hrovat
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Sex, sleaze and hospitality
Sex, sleaze and Swillhouse: The sinister side of the glitzy hospitality scene
One of Sydney’s top bar and restaurant groups allegedly pushed female staff out of the company after reporting sexual assaults and encouraged staff to have sex with patrons and take drugs on duty.
- by Eryk Bagshaw and Bianca Hrovat
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Health
Tracking staff, family deals: Health council in ‘chaos’ amid claims of service failures
A taxpayer-funded medical council faces allegations of tracking its staff, nepotism and reneging on sponsorship commitments.
- by Eryk Bagshaw and Angus Thomson
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Property development
The Sydney property developer chasing $28 million in stolen cash
Tina Zou redeveloped luxury units across Sydney. Now she is embroiled in a dispute over millions of dollars in Hong Kong linked to an espionage case involving a dead Royal Marine in London.
- by Eryk Bagshaw, Lisa Visentin and Daniel Ceng
‘I heard a bang’: Two men shot in suburban park, two on the run
The targeted attack in Sydney’s southwest left one man lying in a suburban park with gunshot wounds to his head and torso.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
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Art
Inside the campaign to take down Gina Rinehart’s portraits
Rinehart lobbied Seven chief executive Ryan Stokes in a campaign the National Gallery of Australia feared would be weaponised by Peter Dutton in parliament.
- by Linda Morris and Eryk Bagshaw
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Network outage
‘Largest IT outage in history’ caused by US-based cybersecurity firm
A widespread CrowdStrike outage hit the nation’s supermarkets, banks, telecommunications companies and other businesses on Friday afternoon.
- by David Swan and Eryk Bagshaw
As it happened: Global IT outage hits airlines, supermarkets and banks; CrowdStrike CEO apologises for outage
A major IT outage is affecting businesses across the country. Follow our live coverage for the latest updates.
- by Josefine Ganko, Lachlan Abbott, Anthony Segaert, David Swan and Eryk Bagshaw
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Trade unions
On police radar and still on an inside track to major projects thanks to CFMEU
A company championed by the union has become one of NSW’s biggest labour-hire firms supplying large publicly funded projects.
- by David Marin-Guzman, Nick McKenzie, Eryk Bagshaw and Kate McClymont