This Month
John Setka’s ex-wife found guilty of making threats to kill him
Emma Walters has been found guilty of making threats to kill the union heavyweight and CFMEU boss, but was only fined $1500.
- Euan Black
December 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell trial shines light on America’s class divide
Witnesses recount how a tall British woman with a “proper English” accent lured them when they were young and poor into a world beyond their imagination.
- Joshua Chaffin
November 2021
- Exclusive
- Victoria votes
Liberal MP Tim Smith ‘pushed out’ by internal rivals
The Victorian thought he could survive in politics – until fellow Liberals demanded he leave Parliament.
- Updated
- Aaron Patrick
August 2021
‘Australia’s most hated man’ banned by corporate cop
Richard Pusey, the Porsche-driving mortgage broker who filmed dying police officers, has been banned from the finance industry for 10 years.
- James Frost
November 2020
Hubris killed EL&C Baillieu, a Melbourne broking icon
One of Melbourne's oldest stockbrokers, established in 1889, couldn't survive the downfall of its rainmaking broker Stephen Macaw.
- Aaron Patrick
June 2020
- Analysis
- Somyurek scandal
How to wreck a political party: Victorian Labor's crazy factions
The Victorian branch stacking debacle shows that old fashioned political machines have been replaced by warring tribes that undermine good government.
- Aaron Patrick
April 2020
'I want my sushi': Porsche driver filmed police death scene
A Porche-driving mortgage broker charged over the deaths of four police officers hit by a truck video-recorded one of them as she lay dying and told her "all I wanted was to go home and have my sushi", a court has heard.
February 2020
Would you buy shares from an Instagram model?
Instagram photo shoots, pushy brokers, fat commissions and, too often, retail investors left with big losses: a look inside the dark arts of small and mid-cap stock floats.
- Aaron Patrick
- Exclusive
- Investment banking
Another client fires EL&C Baillieu amid scandal
One of the Melbourne broker's most promising corporate clients defected to Bell Potter, a sign an elaborate sting continues to damage the firm.
- Aaron Patrick
- Exclusive
- Investment banking
EL&C Baillieu loses IPO client
One client ended its relationship with the Melbourne broker, another hired a crisis public relations firm, and a third pleaded guilty to fraud.
- Updated
- Aaron Patrick
- Exclusive
- Investment banking
EL&C Baillieu's Stephen Macaw lines up one last deal
The float of Nature One Dairy would be a test of whether an elaborate corporate sting has damaged the reputation of the Melbourne broker.
- Aaron Patrick
- Analysis
- Investment banking
Think bankers are smart? Credit Suisse may prove you wrong
The famous Swiss bank last year made as much out of Melbourne broker EL&C Baillieu as a Commonwealth Bank term deposit. This year it's likely to be less.
- Aaron Patrick
- Exclusive
- Investing
A great stockbroking set-up: the EL&C Baillieu transcripts
Secretly recorded conversations with two Melbourne investment bankers expose the industry's inner workings.
- Aaron Patrick
Baillieu 'sting' broker quits, as China claim revealed
Stephen Macaw was recorded in a sting claiming to receive advance warning of regulatory approvals by the Chinese government.
- Aaron Patrick
January 2020
'I know the HSBC results a week before they publish'
An Australian businessman targeted by an elaborate corporate sting apparently boasted of receiving advance copies of earning results from HSBC Holdings, one of the world's biggest banks.
- Aaron Patrick
Embattled Baillieu exec Macaw 'negotiating exit'
Sources say one of the biggest dealmakers at the mid-size broker is leaving because of the reputation damage caused by an elaborate corporate sting.
- Aaron Patrick
- Exclusive
- Investment banking
Baillieu target: I was 'entrapped' by wired-up impostor
The brother of an executive at one of Melbourne's oldest stockbroking firms said he was entrapped by a person posing as a go-between for wealthy Arab investors.
- Aaron Patrick
- Exclusive
- Investing
EL&C Baillieu calls meeting over secret tapes
A crisis meeting of investors in the Melbourne stockbroker was called to discuss a sting operation against its head of corporate finance.
- Aaron Patrick
