Top legal, forensic and police experts have cast doubt over a coroner's finding that young Melbourne woman Phoebe Handsjuk died from a "tragic accident" when she plunged to her death down the garbage chute of a luxury high-rise apartment building.
When Victorian drug investigators raided the city nightclub Two Floors Up in early April, they were expecting to find thousands of ecstasy tablets, methamphetamine and cash.
Intaj Khan leaves the red Ferrari in the garage these days. For an aspiring Labor politician from Melbourne's battling western fringe, the car was generating too much fuss.
Australia's largest private-sector union represents more than 200,000 low-paid workers. So why is it so keen on selling them out while swanning off on moral crusades?
Senator Cory Bernardi, the conservative warrior who led the charge against Senator Sam Dastyari's foreign donations "cash for comment" scandal, is himself involved with a political fundraising entity that inhabits a grey area in the political donations system.
Two Australian companies are embroiled in bribery scandals that reach into the offices of the presidents of Sri Lanka and the Republic of Congo, as the firms sought to secure multimillion-dollar contracts
The words, coming from the chairman of the board's ethics committee, were intended to be reassuring: "I'm really glad to have you in that role. I really am," she said.
Known for its obsession with privacy and its silencing tactics, the Exclusive Brethren has managed to avoid any scrutiny over alleged child sex abuse. Until now.
What drives a young man to plot terror against his own country? This Melbourne reporter posed as an aspiring jihadist to find out.
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.
Senior management knew very well their milk price was going sour. So why weren't Murray Goulburn's farmers told?
Jeff Kennett helped create a toll road monster. Now he says we are being ''ripped off'' and Transurban executives are 'laughing underwater'.
NICK MCKENZIE The letter arrived via snail mail, and it read like a page from a Le Carre spy thriller.
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