August 26, 2026
August 26, 2026
The collapse of trust in facts: Fact-checking in retreat
The modern fact-checking movement launched 25 years ago but is now in retreat — just as it’s needed more than ever. Ned Watt and Michelle Riedlinger report.

July 3, 2023
July 3, 2023
The names of more than 50 PwC partners and staff who received or shared confidential Federal Government data in the tax leaks affair remain hidden.

July 2, 2023
July 2, 2023
The 100 per cent owner of Australian telco giant Optus, the Singapore Government-controlled Singtel, states it has “zero tolerance” for “bribery and corruption in any form”.

June 29, 2023
Former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has been found to have engaged in “serious corrupt conduct” after a multi-year probe by the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption.

June 28, 2023
Nine months after Telco giant Optus — overseen by former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian — announced a “review” into the nation’s biggest data breach it’s refusing to release the findings.

June 27, 2023
June 27, 2023
The man who was CEO of consultancy PwC Australia for the entire tax payments affair, Luke Sayers, has exited as chair of a charity he runs with his wife.

June 26, 2023
June 26, 2023
A group of around 20 PwC partners are allegedly preparing to campaign the firm over a "lack of accountability" in tax leaks scandal.

June 23, 2023
June 23, 2023
Disgraced consultancy PwC is refusing to reveal the “terms of reference” — the instructions it set — for its secret internal investigation into its decade-long tax leaks affair.

June 19, 2023
June 19, 2023
An alleged mastermind of the PwC global tax leaks scam has quietly left a role overseeing a powerful Federal Government tax advisory committee run by the peak body of the Australian legal profession.

June 9, 2023
The embattled Tax Practioners Board will be forced to reveal whether its former chair — who was in charge for the entire PwC tax leaks investigation —recused himself from the probe, including from board meetings.

June 7, 2023
The long-time chair of the Tax Practitioners Board — who departed immediately before explosive senate hearings into the PwC tax scandal two weeks ago — spent almost a decade working for the same accountancy as disgraced tax practitioner Peter Collins.

June 6, 2023
An alleged mastermind of PwC’s tax leaks scheme was just weeks ago providing nationwide training seminars to the Australian Taxation Office – and was personally praised by the Taxation Ombudsman.

May 30, 2023
The Australian Federal Police refused to take action against PwC over the tax advice scandal — as we as other “artificial schemes” allegedly being run by the consultancy — despite being repeatedly pushed by the tax office over two years.
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