China’s losses in the high-altitude 2020 Galwan Valley border clash with India - the deadliest confrontation between the two giants in over four decades - were much higher than reported with many soldiers drowning while crossing a fast-flowing, sub-zero river in darkness, new research claims.

Department of Finance Secretary Rosemary Huxtable wasn’t the “decision maker” who approved the department’s waiving of a $41,000 debt to a senior public official, her department has claimed.

The Federal Government was warned waiving senior official’s $41,000 debt was likely illegal and the opposite of the “many examples” of recovering “Centrelink overpayments”. It fully waived the debt anyway.

The Federal Government has become embroiled in another salary cap scandal, this time involving a key official of the nation’s media watchdog, secret Ombudsman documents reveal.

The corporate regulator has completed its review into the expenses scandal that cost the jobs of its chair James Shipton and deputy Dan Crennan - but it’s refusing to disclose the outcome.

Well heeled secretive lobby group the “Institute of Public Affairs”, which seeks to influence Australia’s public debate, sway government policy - and is running an aggressive campaign against the nation’s most trusted news outlet - is refusing to say who actually funds it.

An outback mega-mine owned by Gina Rinehart has been spruiking Covid-19 misinformation. Yet Australia’s richest person has moved to ensure she doesn’t pay a cent if people actually follow the potentially dangerous advice.

Westpac caught fleecing $10 million by charging 11,000 dead customers for “financial advice”. Zero charges laid by regulator ASIC despite 88,000 legal breaches.

Journalists and media outlets campaigning against anti-corruption bodies are actively spreading a “massive trove of misinformation”, appear to be running a “deliberate campaign to mislead people”, says former top judge.

Up to $1 million of the $7.4m “cost” of the Wagga gun club development appears to be unaccounted for. It’s also revealed Wagga Wagga council approved the project even before NSW funding granted.

NSW Deputy Liberal Leader Stuart Ayres appears to have given false evidence to ICAC inquiry about his July 2016 visit to a Wagga Wagga gun club, that subsequently received a $5.5m grant.

The fund used to make the $5.5 million Wagga Wagga gun club grant was only created - by Dominic Perrottet as NSW Treasurer - months before Perrottet personally approved it.