Ahhh, Cash Converters... Now there's a name you'd expect to see hiding in the shadows of the last day laggards. How'd they go in 2023-24? Revenue soared 26% to $382m as Australians struggle, selling their valuables to a tough pay day lender: announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/2024083…

Media release: ACM’s announcement today that it would cut 35 jobs across 11 newsrooms, which follows its decision to discontinue printing eight newspapers, is a blow to quality local journalism. #MEAAmedia #OurCommunitiesOurStories

ICYMI: “I just thought, they still don’t understand what they’ve done. They really believe there was nothing wrong with this,” one robodebt whistleblower told Guardian Australia, w Christopher Knaus #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…

Eight staff fabricated location data on Indigenous communities while working for a company contracted by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) during last year’s failed voice referendum process, an investigation has found. theguardian.com/australia-news…

A South Australian court’s decision that federal whistleblower protections do not grant immunity for criminal acts committed while gathering evidence will stand, after the high court refused Richard Boyle’s attempt to appeal it, v Guardian Australia #auspol theguardian.com/australia-news…

Across the last ten years, 160 children under the age of 14 have died in homelessness in Australia. From me and Christopher Knaus: theguardian.com/society/2024/n…

Almost 1,500 people are dying in homelessness every year, with a 63% surge in preventable deaths, according to AIHW. The AIHW study comes after (and cites) a Guardian investigation revealing vast scale of Aus homelessness deaths crisis. With Cait Kelly theguardian.com/society/2024/n…

exclusive: Michelle Rowland's office has been apologising to gambling harm advocates for the delay in the advertising reforms, saying they "can’t confirm a revised timeframe" for when the long-awaited changes may finally arrive w/ Henry Belot theguardian.com/australia-news…

Exclusive: The new operator of Australia's onshore immigration detention network is Secure Journeys, a subsidiary of American private prison operator MTC. They'll get $2.3 billion for the contract. theguardian.com/australia-news…

‘Pleading and begging’: prison guards switched off water to cell of mentally ill, dying inmate held at Silverwater jail A truly shocking story from Christopher Knaus theguardian.com/australia-news…

In agony, Simon begged for water 19 times. Guards mocked him – then found him dead. A long read on the litany of failures that preceded Simon Cartwright's death. theguardian.com/australia-news…

So sad to hear about the death of Ken Randall. An absolute legend of journalism who gave so much time to aspiring reporters. Helped me get my start in the industry. The profession and the NPC would not be the same without him.

Thousands of imports enter Australia from firms blacklisted by US over alleged Uyghur forced labour links theguardian.com/world/2025/jan… From Christopher Knaus and me

Jamaine was ejected out of rehab and into homelessness. In just over 12 months he was dead. Me and Christopher Knaus look at what went wrong:

Appalling that Peter Lalor Peter Lalor, one of the best cricket journalists, should be sacked for having a view on something outside cricket. A symptom of corporate cancel culture - urged on by the political right - that Josh Bornstein wrote about in his excellent book.

EXCLUSIVE: ‘This is censorship’: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australia theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Together with several Guardian colleagues, as part of a large journalistic consortium, we investigated the torture and death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna in Russian captivity. theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

“When they said to us that they were going to deal with the hanging points … You think, ‘OK, so no other family’s going to go through this.’ “It’s like they just pick your hopes up and they just shatter you.” theguardian.com/australia-news…