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| UpdatedThe Government is urged to follow Belgium and Israel in banning a highly speculative "binary options trading" scheme hijacked by international fraudsters to steal millions of dollars from Australians.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, fraud-and-corporate-crime, corruption, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedNSW Police say they have cracked open an organised crime syndicate which allegedly made millions of dollars from fraudulent compulsory third party insurance claims across Sydney.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, fraud-and-corporate-crime, corruption, sydney-2000, bankstown-2200, auburn-2144
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| UpdatedThere are concerns in Papua New Guinea that changes to the government's legislation to set up an Independent Commission Against Corruption will undermine its effectiveness.
Topics: corruption, government-and-politics, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedGold Coast Mayor Tom Tate says he is happy to talk to the ABC, but barred journalists from a media conference because he plans to sue the broadcaster over a Four Corners report.
Topics: government-and-politics, local-government, law-crime-and-justice, media, corruption, urban-development-and-planning, activism-and-lobbying, surfers-paradise-4217, qld, australia
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| UpdatedGold Coast Deputy Mayor Donna Gates says she would support a review of developer donations after Four Corners reveals she voted in favour of development applications linked to her campaign donors.
Topics: corruption, local-government, government-and-politics, qld, australia
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| UpdatedSolomon Islanders are gathering in the centre of the capital Honiara for a march before handing over of a petition urging the Government to table the anti-corruption bill that it withdrew during the last sitting of Parliament.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, corruption, government-and-politics, pacific, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedFor the past year, Vincent Go has been documenting the dead from Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. One man, one camera — and the end of the lives of 300 men, women and children.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, corruption, journalism, philippines
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| UpdatedNow that the World Bank's Pacific Possible report has identified tourism as one of the five key drivers for the islands' economies over the next 25 years, the news that President Tommy Remengesau Jr wants to clean up the industry in Palau is timely.
Topics: tourism, corruption, government-and-politics, pacific, palau
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| UpdatedFormer Queensland Labor MP Wayne Wendt is appointed Deputy Mayor of Ipswich, as the council moves to tighten rules over conflicts of interest and procurement.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, corruption, local-government, government-and-politics, ipswich-4305, qld, brisbane-4000
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Senior Labor Government figures in Queensland are pushing for a state-wide ban on developer donations over concerns council decisions are being improperly influenced.
Topics: government-and-politics, local-government, law-crime-and-justice, corruption, alp, urban-development-and-planning, surfers-paradise-4217, qld
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| UpdatedVictoria's corruption watchdog says illicit drug use and corruption are likely to be widespread among paramedics, after a report finds some are stealing and trafficking drugs in the Barwon South West region.
Topics: corruption, drugs-and-substance-abuse, melbourne-3000, geelong-3220, vic
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| UpdatedPressure is mounting on the Prime Minister of Solomon Islands to follow through on a promise to introduce anti-corruption legislation to parliament.
Topics: government-and-politics, corruption, pacific, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedDonna Gates has received tens of thousands of dollars in donations from developers and property industry firms, and declared nearly 30 potential conflicts of interest since March 2016. Each time she's voted in favour of the applications.
Topics: corruption, local-government, australia, southport-4215, qld
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| UpdatedSam Rainsy is calling for sanctions to be imposed on Cambodia's leaders amid a crackdown on critics ahead of next year's elections.
Topics: world-politics, corruption, human-interest, cambodia, china, australia, asia
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| UpdatedAn Ipswich City Council contractor is charged with official corruption, fraud and misconduct in the latest arrests in the region, Queensland's Crime and Corruption Commission says.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, local-government, public-sector, corruption, government-and-politics, ipswich-4305, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, cashmere-4500
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| UpdatedAn emotional Ipswich Mayor, Andrew Antoniolli, announces his deputy has "agreed to stand down" from the position amid a week which has "shocked and rocked" the council, west of Brisbane.
Topics: corruption, law-crime-and-justice, ipswich-4305, qld
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| UpdatedIpswich council chief executive officer Jim Lindsay is charged with official corruption after an investigation by Queensland's Crime and Corruption Commission.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, corruption, local-government, government-and-politics, ipswich-4305, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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The Victorian Parliament has asked the corruption watchdog to investigate the alleged abuse of Labor MPs' printing allowances.
Topics: state-parliament, corruption, alp, government-and-politics, melbourne-3000, parliament-house-3002, vic
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| UpdatedA former Supreme Court judge says Australia is failing to properly tackle political corruption, after a parliamentary committee stops short of calling for a federal anti-corruption commission along ICAC lines.
Topics: corruption, federal-government, australia
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A parliamentary inquiry recommends whistleblowers be financially rewarded for speaking up about misconduct and corruption across both public and private sectors.
Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, corruption, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedCorrupt former Labor minister Eddie Obeid's appeal against his conviction for misconduct in public office fails and he will have to serve out his minimum three-year jail term.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, states-and-territories, state-parliament, government-and-politics, corruption, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe death of Kian delos Santos, one of thousands of people who have been gunned down in the Philippines in the last year, has sparked national outrage.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, corruption, philippines
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| UpdatedVictoria's anti-corruption watchdog decides it will not investigate Opposition Leader Matthew Guy over his controversial lobster dinner with an alleged mafia boss.
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, crime, law-crime-and-justice, corruption, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedThe head of Transparency Solomon Islands says it's unlikely Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare's anti-corruption bill will ever become law after yet another delay to its passage through parliament.
Topics: corruption, pacific, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedA senior Northern Territory public servant accused of disclosing official secrets in relation to a 2016 tender application has the charges against him dismissed.
Topics: courts-and-trials, corruption, government-and-politics, darwin-0800