By Edmund Tadros and Bianca Hall Detention centre operators, an international training company, a NSW Government department and a multinational IT firm are the big winners from the Federal Government’s immigration policies. An analysis of tender data by The Canberra Times has identified, for the first time, the companies that…
ADFA’s decade of sex claims
By Edmund Tadros and Markus Mannheim Australia’s military university has filed at least 29 formal reports of alleged sexual offences over the past decade, including claims a female cadet was king-hit and raped while unconscious. But the records, obtained under freedom of information law, may represent a mere fraction of…
Technology key to rebuilding Christchurch
The massive earthquake that destroyed large parts of New Zealand’s second biggest city struck at 12:51pm on an overcast Tuesday in February, as Grant Wells was eating a Chinese meal in a Christchurch food court. “As soon as the shaking stopped, I got out of there as fast as I…
Freedom-of-Information stories
ADFA’s decade of sex claims Australia’s military university has filed at least 29 formal reports of alleged sexual offences over the past decade, including claims a female cadet was king-hit and raped while unconscious. But the records, obtained under freedom of information law, may represent a mere fraction of all…
Business stories
Workplace Qantas loses fight with Falun Gong flight attendant QANTAS has been ordered to reinstate a flight attendant banned from international duties over her practise of Falun Gong. Sheridan Genrich, of Sydney’s Lane Cove, was demoted to short-haul after she was threatened by authorities during a 2008 Beijing stopover and…