Australia's most powerful department has failed to complete a secret Ombudsman direction to review hundreds of senior public appointments over illegality concerns.

Guide Dogs Victoria has been caught lying about its poor performance, including blaming its surging wages bill on increasing client numbers - when they've slumped.

Victorian Opposition leader Matthew Guy has been caught lying about cooperating with a donation fraud investigation and referred to the state’s corruption regulator.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says he is proud of the state’s corruption watchdog which “has teeth”, while refusing to say if it's interviewed him over the ICAC scandal that felled Gladys Berejiklian.

Medibank hackers may be in Russia, as well as in "other countries", say police, as Optus goes silent on ransom claim.

The directors of Optus owner Singtel were given major pay rises just weeks before the telco suffered one of the biggest data breaches in Australia’s history.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is refusing to stand by the legality of a $5.5 million grant he made following an “intervention” by Gladys Berejiklian and heavy lobbying by Daryl Maguire.

China’s military exercises on its border with India over the past two years were all “defensive” in nature, say intelligence sources.

Medibank is running a “not secure” customer login website that has been “exposed and exploitable” for the past five months, says cybersecurity expert.

Optus was operating a “revoked” online safety certificate on its “API” subdomain and had an insecure customer site as early as February 2021.

Almost a month after Optus suffered one of the worst data breaches in Australian history it continues to run a “completely insecure” website, says a top cybersecurity expert.

Optus owner Singtel has suffered another serious Australian breach, with data appearing on the dark web after an “unauthorised third party” accessed customer information and the personal records of 1,000 employees.