Coalition awards big donor multimillion-dollar Covid-19 vaccine contract
January 2021Sonic Health, which has been awarded $312 million worth of contracts since the Coalition came to office
Conflicts of Interest - stories that make the case for a Federal ICAC
Barnaby Joyce lobbied PM Turnbull to support Rinehart
April 2017Joyce lobbied Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to support Gina Rinehart's National Agriculture Day and ...
Andrew Laming’s $550,000 grant to rugby club with links to staffer
2018 ongoing $550,000 grant was one of five grants awarded to the Southern Bay Cyclones rugby union club in the ...
PM, deputy PM ignore Freedom of Information laws
2019-2020
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has no power to investigate a complaint about the ...
Leppington Triangle scandal: taxpayers stump up $30m for land worth $3m
2018 ongoing
Criminal investigations launched; the auditor general reportedly misled by the Infrastructure ...
Explosion in $79k contracts that don’t need to go out to tender
2017 ongoingIn the past four years three times as many contracts worth between $78,000 and $80,000 — the threshold ...
Tim Wilson solicited preselection endorsements while at Human Rights Commission
Tim Wilson solicited preselection endorsements while at the Human Rights Commission, a move that 'threatened' the commission's independence.
Abbott-era MPs: ‘leaners’ on the public payroll
Former Coalition MPs treated to rich pickings at taxpayers' expense, with more than 40% of Abbott-era MPs appointed to government jobs.
Sam Dastyari warned Chinese national of potential phone bugging
Then Labor senator Sam Dastyari supported China’s position over the South China Sea and had office, legal and travel bills paid by a Chinese company.
Gambling lobby’s punt with $20k donation to Kevin Andrews
Liberal MP Kevin Andrews received a $20,000 donation from Clubs NSW, Australia's most powerful gambling lobby, as he led the formulation of the Coalition's poker machines policy before the 2013 election.
Bruce Billson paid $75k salary by lobby group while an MP
The former Liberal minister Bruce Billson failed to declare he was employed and paid a $75,000 salary by a business lobby before he quit parliament.
Grassgate – Angus Taylor kept mum on personal financial interest
Angus Taylor did not declare his financial interest in a company at a meeting with senior environment officials and the office of the then environment minister, Josh Frydenberg about endangered grasslands.
Christopher Pyne took up EY job 9 days after leaving parliament
Former Liberal defence minister Christopher Pyne discussed defence consulting jobs with EY while he was still in cabinet and took up a job nine days after leaving parliament.
Fiona Nash and the food health ratings website
Then assistant health minister and her chief of staff pulled a food health star rating website. Her chief of staff was previously chair of, and still held shares in, APA, a lobbyist for the Australian Beverages Council and Mondelez Australia.
The $80m water deal that has provided no water
The $80 million deal, signed off by by then-agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce, had been rejected twice and involved a company that Angus Taylor was once a director of.
PM’s department broke law by delaying FoI request
The privacy watchdog found the PM's department broke the law by delaying a FoI request about allegations that the former public service commissioner improperly aided the Institute of Public Affairs.
Tony Abbott fails to declare daughter’s scholarship connected to donor
Frances Abbott received a scholarship for a $60,000 degree from the Whitehouse Institute of Design. Its chairman, who recommended Frances for the scholarship, has donated more than $20,000 to the Liberal party.
Joel Fitzgibbon fails to declare payment for China trips
Joel Fitzgibbon failed to declare two trips he took to China in 2002 and 2005, which were paid for by Chinese-born businesswoman Helen Liu.
Martin Ferguson: in breach of parliament’s code of ethics for ex-ministers?
2013Martin Ferguson was minister for resources and energy for more than five years before resigning in March 2013. ...
Minister’s role a link in grant to ineligible business
The office of former regional development minister the LNP's John McVeigh asked the Infrastructure Department to reconsider an ineligible Queensland abattoir for a regional jobs grant.
Stuart Robert breached ministerial standards over donor links
Robert appeared at a signing ceremony in China in 2014 for a mining deal between an Australian company Nimrod Resources and a Chinese business. Robert had said he travelled to China in a personal capacity.
All in the (Wilson) family: the not-so-frank inquiry
In the lead-up to the 2019 election, the Liberals' Tim Wilson chaired an inquiry into proposed changes to franking credits. His private website for the inquiry was badged as official but only solicited submissions from those against the changes.
Scott Morrison and that phone call to the NSW police commissioner
The Prime Minister was roundly condemned after admitting he telephoned the NSW Police Commissioner about the investigation into the Angus Taylor/Sydney City Council affair. Both men insist the phone call was innocuous but will not release the transcript.
Jobs scheme targeted marginal electorate, ignored recommendations
The Regional Jobs and Investment Packages was a $220 million Coalition promise rolled out after the 2016 election but conflicts of interest were not managed properly, according to the Auditor General.
