Michaela Whitbourn is a former corporate lawyer who has reported extensively across politics, finance, business and law. In 2011, she was appointed the NSW political reporter for The Australian Financial Review and provided in-depth coverage of historic corruption inquiries into former state Labor ministers. She also exposed attempts by the O'Farrell government to mislead voters about the effect of the carbon tax on transport costs. In October 2013, she joined The Sydney Morning Herald as legal affairs and investigations reporter.
High-profile bookmaker Tom Waterhouse has told a Sydney court that a former client accused of defrauding a company of $9 million was a "big punter" who was well known around the racetrack.
Retailer was carrying far too many types of merchandise the company's former chairman says.
When he left the witness box on Friday, former BBY chairman Glenn Rosewall had drained a jug of water and been grilled for hours about his reliance on advice from a Sydney psychic.
The former chairman of failed Sydney stockbroking firm BBY has admitted he consulted a psychic about the running of the troubled business but insisted he was "dismissive" of much of her advice.
Former tennis great Ken Rosewall told the Supreme Court there were many parts of his family's stockbroking empire BBY that he "didn't really comprehend".
A former director of collapsed Sydney stockbroking firm BBY believed claims the chairman was consulting a psychic were a "joke", the NSW Supreme Court has heard.
It is not often that chakras, incantations and astrological charts take centre stage in the NSW Supreme Court, still less in a corporate post-mortem.
Collapsed stockbroking firm BBY was run like a "dictatorship" under former chairman Glenn Rosewall, the NSW Supreme Court has heard.
Former Fairfax journalist Natalie O'Brien has lost a defamation case against the ABC over a Media Watch broadcast.
The chairman of failed Sydney stockbroking firm BBY took advice from a self-proclaimed psychic when preparing budget estimates and cashflow forecasts, the NSW Supreme Court has heard.
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