Richard Baker
The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia
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How the Premier’s local bottle shop owner claimed he won millions in projects
In mid-2018, Luckee Kohli, Daniel Andrews’ local bottle shop owner, organised a meeting with the Victorian Premier. → Read More
Dying sheep, cattle unable to stand: Vets identify cruelty in meat industry
Reports of mistreatment have prompted the meat industry to back RSPCA calls for new national standards. → Read More
Commonwealth hires luxury Crown executive jets to do aid work in Pacific
At full commercial rates, Crown’s private executive jets cost $10,000 per hour to operate, prompting questions about the federal government’s decision to use them for aid work. → Read More
Lies, bribes and prostitutes: The recruitment of the Australian meat industry’s foreign workforce
Australia’s immigration department is putting hundreds of foreign meatworkers on notice that they need to verify their visa status or leave. But many say they are the victims of unscrupulous practices. → Read More
‘These people are properties’: The plight of Warrnambool’s Chinese meat workers
The inside story on the lucrative trade in foreign workers who pay recruiters as much as $70,000 for a job in an Australian abattoir in the hope of a new life. → Read More
Melbourne Uni allowed ‘sexual harasser’ professor to keep jobs
The report found Professor Alan Lopez’s conduct was in breach of the university’s appropriate workplace behaviour policy. → Read More
Aerospace boss struggled to get top-secret security clearance
A former boss of the aerospace division of Defence Science Technology wasn't cleared to receive classified information almost a year after her appointment. → Read More
Property spruiker allegedly told students to use Family Court to pinpoint targets
An influential Australian property spruiker allegedly directed students to buy property from people identified in Family Court proceedings as divorcing or financially struggling. → Read More
Previously withheld hotel quarantine emails show Sutton's turf war with emergency managers
Victoria’s health department has been forced to release emails previously withheld from the hotel quarantine inquiry that reveal a bitter internal turf war about who should have been in charge. → Read More
Unified Security boss says not its fault virus escaped hotel quarantine
The head of one of the security firms that supplied guards to Victoria's failed hotel quarantine program says police or army guards would have suffered the same fate. → Read More
AMP harassment victim's allegations credible, investigation finds
A report by London barrister Andrew Burns QC into harassment complaints against Boe Pahari lists nine key allegations made by Julia Szlakowski and confirms he was satisfied her account of events was true and accurate. → Read More
Security firm recruited over WhatsApp, role expanded despite concern
A "dream" security company linked to COVID-19 outbreaks in hotel quarantine was not approved for state contracts, yet was hired because it met social-inclusion goals, a quarantine inquiry has heard. → Read More
Two hotels source of second wave as 'inappropriate' advice to guards revealed
Almost all of Victoria's second coronavirus wave can be traced to travellers quarantined at the Rydges on Swanston and Stamford Plaza, where face masks were not mandatory for guards or travellers in high-risk situations. → Read More
Security guards hired for hotel quarantine in an attempt at social inclusion
A senior Department of Jobs official has been quietly shifted from their role as another describes the "crazy weekend" involved in setting up hotel quarantine. → Read More
Charity World Vision in allegations of corruption and nepotism
Donations from Australians to the humanitarian behemoth may have helped pay for secret kickbacks to the father of a World Vision executive. → Read More
Australia may bar China-backed firm from a mine it owns on a missile site
Defence Department rejects China-linked bid to mine iron ore near key weapons testing site, raising possibility of taxpayer funded buy back. → Read More
Coalition orders investigation on whether Pyne and Bishop are breaching ministerial standards
The PM has written to the most senior public servant to ask whether two former ministers could be breaching the ministerial code of conduct with jobs they have taken. → Read More
Right-winger's violent threats ignored as police find 'not enough evidence'
The threats from a white supremacist troll were specific, violent and recorded on a phone's message bank. But police still did not lay charges. → Read More
NSW Police make arrest in NAB fraud case
Helen Rosamond, who ran the Human Group, is expected to be charged with several fraud-related expenses linked to an alleged bank kickbacks scandal. → Read More
'Hockey owes me', Helloworld chief tells his executive as embassy meeting arranged
A former Helloworld executive has dropped a bombshell on the alleged background to his meeting with the Australian ambassador Joe Hockey. → Read More