DARK SECRETS: 2 | Vintage Vibes

Australia's Goldilocks city, where all developers are welcome

'Is Goldilocks appropriate for Newcastle? It sure isn't Sleeping Beauty anymore.'

Newcastle Herald · Aug 20, 2023

'Absolutely appalled': Drumgold could seek to have findings set aside

A top silk agrees the outgoing prosecutor has been denied procedural fairness.

The Canberra Times · Aug 7, 2023

'He doesn't understand Newcastle': Hilton Grugeon hits back at Geoffrey Watson SC

'There seemed to be these sort of weird oligarchs.'

Newcastle Herald · Aug 6, 2023

Deal sees payment flow from Gina Rinehart's company Hancock Prospecting to Liberal Party

Gina Rinehart's company, Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd, was behind a $150,000 payment to the Liberal Party, transferred via a third party, and not declared by the mining giant.

ABC News · Feb 9, 2023

Greens senator Lidia Thorpe admits to undisclosed relationship with ex-Rebels president Dean Martin while on law enforcement committee

Staffers to Greens senator Lidia Thorpe were concerned her undisclosed relationship with a former outlaw motorcycle gang president while she served on parliament's law enforcement committee posed a perceived conflict of interest.

ABC News · Oct 20, 2022

Four state scandals that show what a federal anti-corruption commission could uncover

From Eddie Obeid to ‘Mr Ipswich’, state anti-corruption bodies have already shown how they can hold the powerful to account

The Guardian - AU · Oct 1, 2022

Clock ticking on MPs move to revoke $18 million from Governor-General’s favoured charity

Crossbench MPs have given the government 15 sitting days to stand in the way of their move to revoke an $18 million grant to a charity.

The New Daily · Sep 6, 2022

Government trying to cast ‘unusual’ secrecy over FOI relating to company part-owned by Angus Taylor

Environment department wants some closed hearings at appeals tribunal as it fights to withhold documents relating to illegal poisoning of grasslands

The Guardian - AU · Jun 20, 2022

Morrison government unnecessarily extended plum jobs worth up to $500,000 ahead of federal election

Plum jobs worth up to $500,000 a year were extended to Liberal Party-linked individuals by the Morrison government in the lead-up to the election, and many were not due to end for another two years.

ABC News · Apr 13, 2022