The man conducting an “independent review” into “missing” cabinet documents from the secret 2003 meetings of Australia’s National Security Committee — was at those meetings.

The man the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet has appointed to conduct a “review” into “missing” cabinet papers was just five months ago given a secretive, $50,000-a-month contract by that same department.

Former Australian Finance Minister Mathias Cormann — now the boss of the OECD — went to work for the former CEO of PwC Australia almost immediately after leaving office.

Warren Mundine has struck another mining bonanza — and is set to be paid $120,000 a year as chairman of a struggling minerals exploration company.

Fees paid to the directors of Singtel – the owner of Optus – have soared by more than 80 per cent in just one year.

More than one-third of investors in a mining company rejected a plan to give Warren Mundine and other directors shares worth more than $2 million — but it was approved anyway.