Law & Crime

The chief investigator of the CFMEU broke ranks to reveal a lack of action to clean up corruption on worksites, exposing Victoria’s premier and police.

Despite being warned it could breach the Racial Discrimination Act, the Coalition government went ahead with a welfare program that punished First Nations people in remote areas.

Allegations of falsified death certificates at Launceston General Hospital last year led to the referral of dozens of cases to the coroner for investigation. New, exclusive investigations reveal the malpractice goes far deeper than previously reported.

Built at a cost of more than $1 billion, an enormous new jail is empty more than two years after it was built – with millions spent on leaky ceilings and malfunctioning security.

The timeline from the discovery to the exposure of the fake terrorist plot reveals how political exploitation served to stoke fears and erode public confidence.

ANALYSIS: Government guidance on the use of NDAs, aimed at greater transparency in the interests of victim-survivors of sexual harassment, appears to have had little impact.

The stabbing death of a young Melbourne model has sent shock waves through African diasporic communities in Australia, highlighting the way Black lives are treated in the media and Black grief is rendered invisible.

As a report from Geoffrey Watson exposes more alleged wrongdoing in NSW, members of the CFMEU wonder if enough is being done to reform their troubled union.

The Department of Social Services provided legal correspondence to the Catholic Church that was then leaked to the Murdoch press and used in an attempt to silence victims.

With an increase in anti-Semitism, police and security agencies are contending with a complex convergence of different groups and the possibility that some have been recruited by foreign actors.