Social media posts may have helped track terrorist

Australia's most wanted terrorist Neil Prakash tried to flee Islamic State by sneaking into Turkey but may have been undone by continued social media posts, Fairfax Media has learned.

Will the US resettlement deal restart flow of boats?

Australia's deal with the United States to resettle people from Manus Island and Nauru has drawn a conspicuously low-key response from the thousands of asylum seekers and refugees waiting in Indonesia.

Forget 18C, this is the real threat to free speech

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Some of the biggest alleged free speech champions on the right of Australian politics have used the defamation law to protect their own reputations even though they are trying to remove the "insult and offend" protection in the Racial Discrimination Act.

Former Unaoil executive admits bribery

An envelope stuffed with cash. A midnight meeting in Tripoli with a Gaddafi regime official. Buying access to Libya's oil wealth. They sound like plot twists from a spy novel, but for one international oil executive, this was real life. 

'One day the truth will come out' in Phoebe case, says Hampel sister

About seven months ago, a photograph was posted on Facebook saying, 'You and you're [sic] family were let down by the justice system and those who represent it'

Phoebe Handsjuk's waste chute death unlike anything else

In 30 years in the waste game, Neil Bone had never heard of anybody falling to their death down a garbage chute until Phoebe Handsjuk died.

There's a real and present danger in IS call to 'scorch with terror'

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Ignore the alliteration, the scary part of the Islamic State call for attacks on Bondi, Brunswick and beyond is the author's detailed local knowledge.

BMW car finance for anyone, whether or not you can pay

BMW has been so desperate to get people behind the wheel of its luxury cars that its finance company gave loans to people with zero or even negative disposable incomes and accepted false loan documents while paying big bonuses to its most reckless salesmen.

SecureDrop makes leaking to Fairfax Media safe from prying eyes

Australian journalists make a promise to their confidential sources to protect their identity "in all circumstances" – it's part of the code of ethics.