Simon Elvery

• Calculator: How the penalty rates cut affects your pay

  By political reporter Ashlynne McGhee and Simon Elvery

  Posted February 23, 2017 18:30:47 | Updated February 24, 2017 12:39:52

  The Fair Work Commission has cut Sunday and public holiday penalty rates for some workers. Use our calculator to find out the impact on you.

  Topics: industrial-relations, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia

• New political donations data maps industries' web of influence

  By Catherine Hanrahan , Simon Elvery , Ashlynne McGhee and Matt Liddy

  Posted February 09, 2017 06:03:00 | Updated February 09, 2017 12:26:38

  Companies arguably make political donations for one reason only: to influence Australian politics. ABC News has mapped the flow of money to find out which industries are using their riches in a bid to buy influence.

  Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, australia

• Worst Catholic groups for child sex abuse claims in Australia revealed

  By Clare Blumer, Rebecca Armitage and Simon Elvery

  Posted February 06, 2017 17:11:22 | Updated February 08, 2017 15:41:27

  The Australian Catholic Church releases "grim" data revealing 7 per cent of priests, working between 1950 and 2009, have been accused of child sex crimes. Here's what you need to know.

  Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, religion-and-beliefs, catholic, australia

• Who did political parties' associated entities get their money from?

  By Simon Elvery

  Posted February 01, 2017 13:40:57 | Updated February 01, 2017 14:11:06

  New data reveals how much political parties' associated entities received in 2015-16. Search the full dataset.

  Topics: political-parties, federal-government, australia

• Australian political donations: Who gave how much?

  By Simon Elvery

  Posted February 01, 2017 11:30:50 | Updated February 01, 2017 13:48:44

  New data reveals how much political parties received from big donors in 2015-16. Search the full dataset.

  Topics: political-parties, federal-government, australia

• Go on, you've got this: The easiest ABC News quiz of 2016

  By Simon Elvery

  Posted December 16, 2016 06:09:31 | Updated December 22, 2016 10:19:54

  You've answered our quiz questions more than 21 millions times this year. Here are the 15 questions most people answered correctly.

  Topics: human-interest, australia

• Have you got what it takes? 2016's hardest news quiz

  By Simon Elvery

  Posted December 16, 2016 06:09:31 | Updated December 22, 2016 10:22:11

  This year we've asked you more than 1,500 quiz questions and you've answered them a whopping 21 million times. Here are the 15 hardest questions from 2016's ABC News quizzes.

  Topics: human-interest, australia

• How Australia's child protection system fails the most vulnerable

  By Linton Besser, Four Corners and ABC News Digital

  Posted November 14, 2016 20:32:49 | Updated November 17, 2016 13:01:09

  A Four Corners investigation into residential group homes has found some of the country's most damaged children are being placed in serious danger.

  Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, family-and-children, australia, newcastle-2300

• Tax Office imposes blanket ban on FOI requests via open-government tool

  By Simon Elvery

  Posted August 30, 2016 10:06:52 | Updated August 30, 2016 13:37:51

  The Australian Taxation Office has started refusing freedom of information requests submitted via open-government website Right To Know, citing safety and privacy concerns for its staff.

  Topics: federal-government, charities, public-sector, tax, australia

• Quiz: You've marvelled at Olympians' feats — but do you understand them?

  By Ben Spraggon , Simon Elvery , Cristen Tilley and Tim Leslie

  Posted August 18, 2016 12:49:03 | Updated August 19, 2016 10:03:34

  Could our Olympic swimmers keep up with a penguin? Could long jumpers leap the length of a humpback whale? Get a sense of how Olympians' feats measure up.

  Topics: olympics-summer, brazil

• ABC NewsBot: Ask me who's winning!

  By Simon Elvery

  Posted July 01, 2016 13:50:41 | Updated July 02, 2016 00:24:38

  The big day is upon us and ABC NewsBot is gearing up to deliver you election results quick as a flash.

  Topics: federal-elections, australia

• These are Turnbull and Shorten's favourite three-word slogans

  By Paul Donoughue , Simon Elvery and Clare Blumer

  Posted July 01, 2016 06:09:04

  During an election campaign, a handful of slogans or manners of speech tend to stick in the public consciousness. What are the phrases the leaders keep repeating this year?

  Topics: federal-elections, australia

• What's in a name? Data reveals all the Davids running for office

  By Paul Donoughue and Simon Elvery

  Posted June 29, 2016 17:38:47

  Thirty-seven people called David are running for office this weekend. What else does an analysis of the candidates' names reveal?

  Topics: federal-elections, australia

• Whose votes will really decide the winner on July 2?

  By Simon Elvery , Colin Gourlay and Ben Spraggon

  Posted June 22, 2016 06:05:02

  In Australia, all votes are created equal but some are worth more than others.

  Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia

• Our NewsBot can answer your election questions — come say hello

  By Simon Elvery

  Posted June 15, 2016 06:00:42 | Updated July 01, 2016 10:37:32

  We launch a news bot to answer some of your election questions on Twitter and Facebook.

  Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia

• Analysis: How wrong are treasurers' budget forecasts?

  By Simon Elvery

  Posted May 05, 2016 17:50:18 | Updated May 05, 2016 19:54:08

  Over the past decade, treasurers' forecasts have been consistently, drastically, and optimistically wrong. How wrong? Well if the forecasts in Tuesday's budget are similarly poor, Australia's budget deficit will be bigger in 2019-20 than it is today.

  Topics: budget, federal-government, australia

• Budget 2016: Winners and losers

  By Tim Leslie, Paul Donoughue and Simon Elvery, illustrations by Lucy Fahey

  Posted May 03, 2016 19:48:40 | Updated May 12, 2016 14:09:35

  Find out who scores and who misses out in Scott Morrison's first budget.

  Topics: budget, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia

• Budget sliced and diced: Where every dollar comes from, and how it's spent

  By Simon Elvery and Ben Spraggon

  Posted May 03, 2016 19:39:41 | Updated May 03, 2016 19:55:06

  Explore an interactive breakdown of where the Government gets its money, how it's being spent, and what's changed since last year.

  Topics: budget, federal-government, australia

• Write to Reply: Should we have a plebiscite on same-sex marriage?

  Posted March 14, 2016 10:21:04 | Updated March 14, 2016 12:30:27

  Are civil rights too important to be decided by a popular vote or is it an assault on our democracy if the voice of the people is not heard on this issue? Kevin Donnelly and David van Mill debate the merits of holding an expensive plebiscite on same-sex marriage.

  Topics: federal-government, gays-and-lesbians, marriage, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, australia

• Australia honours men twice as often as women - year after year

  By Simon Elvery

  Posted January 26, 2016 07:10:13 | Updated January 26, 2016 11:54:48

  Women make up just one-third of today's Australia Day honours recipients, the same as they have every year for the past two decades.

  Topics: awards-and-prizes, australia

• Before and after: How the drought is biting in regional Australia

  By Marty McCarthy, Lydia Burton and Ben Spraggon

  Posted December 17, 2015 07:00:11 | Updated December 17, 2015 08:28:56

  Drought is spreading across southern and eastern Australia, affecting more of Queensland than ever previously recorded. Use our interactive images to explore its impact on the landscape.

  Topics: drought, australia, qld

• Star Wars explained: these are the charts you're looking for

  By Katie Franklin, Simon Elvery and Ben Spraggon

  Posted December 16, 2015 08:50:41 | Updated October 03, 2016 16:42:34

  In the lead-up to the release of new Star Wars movie The Force Awakens, we logged and charted every scene from every Star Wars movie. (Yes, we even watched the prequels.)

  Topics: film-movies, united-states

• These women all died in 2015: 'they are not just statistics'

  By Heidi Davoren

  Posted November 25, 2015 06:55:27 | Updated November 25, 2015 16:08:50

  These Australian women all died this year. What they have in common is police have laid charges against their partners or ex-partners. Here, the women's families and friends share the stories of their lives.

  Topics: community-and-society, australia

• Prince Of Penzance: How it compares to past winners

  By Daniel Franklin , Simon Elvery and Ben Spraggon

  Posted November 02, 2015 10:27:10 | Updated October 28, 2016 14:49:15

  Our virtual race was on the money last year as Protectionist was pipped in a photo finish. Scroll through to see how the 2015 field compares to all previous Melbourne Cup winners across a range of metrics.

  Topics: horse-racing, australia, melbourne-3000, flemington-3031, vic

• Working class or affluent? Find out where you fit in Australia

  By Simon Elvery and Tim Leslie

  Posted October 28, 2015 06:05:15 | Updated October 29, 2015 08:47:16

  New research from the ANU shows there are five social classes in Australia. Take our questionnaire to find out where you fit.

  Topics: community-and-society, social-sciences

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