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‘The devil is trying to deceive’: Leaked recordings show Brethren boss’s behaviour crackdown

As the secretive sect insists it had no role in campaigning for the Coalition, leaked recordings of a recent crackdown point to strict top-down control.

  • Michael Bachelard

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Thomas Sewell’s mansion home.

Rich mates, secret mansions: Australia’s millionaire Nazi-backers revealed

Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell is living in a secret multimillion-dollar compound in Melbourne’s far north-east “gifted” to him by one of the wealthy backers helping Australia’s neo-Nazis plot their next move into politics.

  • Sherryn Groch
The Craigieburn train maintenance centre.

The train line robbery: How Metro Trains underpaid its own workers

A dispute over millions of dollars in superannuation has resulted in workers taking on both Metro Trains and their own unions to get their entitlements.

  • Clay Lucas
Detailed instructions and pep-up videos issued to Plymouth Brethren Christian Church booth workers during last year’s federal election have emerged.

Secrecy, loyalty, discipline: Videos, texts blow lid on Brethren election conduct

Church elders were caught on camera coaching volunteers to be evasive and aggressive, undermining the separatist religion’s claims it played no role in the federal election.

  • Michael Bachelard
Victoria’s labour hire industry regulator has cancelled the licence of 24-7 Personnel because the company did not declare it was partly managed by murderer Jie Zhu.

Murderer was secretly managing business putting workers on mega-project

The labour hire company has had its licence torn up but not before winning support under a state government program designed to promote women on construction sites.

  • Nick McKenzie
Judge Alexander “Sandy” Street is under investigation after allegations about his conduct.

Labor under fire over stalled judge watchdog after ‘secret’ police report exposed

The Albanese government faces renewed pressure to deliver on an election promise after serious allegations regarding a federal judge were left unaddressed for a decade.

  • Nick McKenzie and Paul Sakkal
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Grange, the Chinese navy and a federal judge from a famous family: Police concerns prompt probe

This masthead has unearthed a taskforce’s scrutiny of a senior judicial officer and a business deal involving a freight firm’s plan to sell wine to foreign sailors.

  • Nick McKenzie
Former Border Force official George Andreopoulos.

Coffee shop leaks, ‘swapsies’ and ‘corrupt conduct’: Report lifts lid on Border Force scandal

A National Anti-Corruption Commission report has unmasked an elite Border Force boss who leaked tobacco secrets.

  • Nick McKenzie
Women In Construction is owned by a male serial domestic violence abuser.

Controversial Women in Construction firm had rates 20% higher than competitors. It was still hired

Officials were alerted to price-gouging by a labour-hire firm claiming to be a women-led supplier of female workers, which was, in fact, owned by a male serial domestic violence abuser.

  • Nick McKenzie, Kieran Rooney and Chip Le Grand
The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church ordering its members to purge their homes of animals.

‘My church or the dog?’ Brethren orders members to purge pets, sparking fears of global cull

Secretive religious sect Exclusive Brethren has ordered members to get rid of pets, leaving Australian families “heartbroken” and facing a devastating choice.

  • Sherryn Groch