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    Richard Baker

    Investigative reporter

    Richard Baker is a multi-award winning investigative reporter for The Age.

    November 2017

    Huang Xiangmo, and Sam Dastyari.

    Sam Dastyari defends Chinese government in secret tape

    The press conference that almost destroyed Sam Dastyari's career has largely been secret. Until now.

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    Sam Dastyari's South China Sea comments exposed on tape

    Sam Dastyari delivered a deliberate and detailed defence of the Chinese government's aggressive land grab in the South China Sea, an explosive tape recording reveals.

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    September 2017

    All the banks are vulnerable

    Police say all banks, not just CBA, are exposed to money laundering

    Crime gangs are laundering up to $5 million a day through Australia's big banks, according to federal and state policing agencies.

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    August 2017

    Iluka's mine in Sierra Leone.

    Iluka Resources caught up in African bribery scandal

    A secret inquiry by Iluka Resources has embroiled a leading Sierra Leone presidential candidate, a cabinet minister and high ranking officials in an international bribery scandal.

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    July 2017

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    Confidential documents were found at the Canberra home of Roger Uren and Sheri Yan during an ASIO raid.

    Charges loom for ex-intelligence official Roger Uren after ASIO raid

    Police are seeking to charge former high-ranking Australian intelligence official Roger Uren with breaching spy agency secrecy laws.

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    June 2017

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    Malcolm Turnbull, Huang Xiangmo, Craig Laundy and Yang Dongdong at 2016 Chinese New Year festivities.

    Craig Laundy and the China connection

    Assistant Minister downplays ties to an 'adviser' linked to a Communist Party lobbying group.

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    Darwin Port owner Landbridge seeks $500m loan from China

    The Chinese owner of the Port of Darwin is using the port as security to seek a $500 million loan from the Chinese government's trade bank.

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    November 2016

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    Cyber security experts warned BlueBorne had the potential to cause havoc.

    Your mobile phone records and home address for sale

    Corrupt insiders at offshore call centres used by Australian companies are offering for sale the private data of customers of Optus, Telstra and Vodafone.

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    CIMIC executive chairman Marcelino Fernandez Verdes.

    ASIC inquiry launched into CIMIC and Leighton bribery scandal

    The corporate watchdog has launched an investigation into allegations Leighton and CIMIC failed to disclose a bribery scandal.

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    October 2016

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    Mbalam Camp, iron ore deposit in the Congo.

    Sundance Resources may have bribed Congo Minister and President

    New evidence suggests Sundance Resources may have bribed Congo's Mines and Geology Minister and the country's president.

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    December 2015

    ACT Police Minister Joy Burch has resigned.

    ACT Police Minister quits as AFP considers CFMEU probe

    ACT Police Minister Joy Burch was forced to resign ahead of a possible Australian Federal Police investigation into her office's dealings with the politically influential construction union.

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    Speaker Joy Burch.

    Minister's top adviser quits after police anger over CFMEU contact

    ACT Police Minister Joy Burch's senior adviser has resigned in the wake of police anger about her giving information to the construction union.

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    CFMEU complaint to ACT police minister led to change in policing

    The ACT government changed how police treated CFMEU officials, following union complaints to the police minister.

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    November 2015

    Former Cbus employees charged over CFMEU leak

    AFP charges two former senior Cbus employees over leak to construction union.

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    October 2014

    UGL paid HK chief millions in secret fees

    Corporate services group UGL agreed to pay Hong Kong’s embattled chief executive CY Leung, millions in secret fees in return for his support for its Asian property business, DTZ.

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    November 2013

    Jockey Zahra will ride in Derby Day despite police evidence

    Top jockey Mark Zahra is free to ride in today’s Derby Day meeting despite police holding evidence that he was bribed by disgraced jockey Danny Nikolic to fix a race in 2011.

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