Australian drug smuggling suspects right at home as Dubai makes world’s worst welcome

Australian drug smuggling suspects right at home as Dubai makes world’s worst welcome

A mega-leak of property records reveals how suspected drug traffickers and other criminals call the United Arab Emirates a safe haven as the Gulf state looks the other way.

  • byNick McKenzie andAmelia Ballinger

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CEO’s plan for personal millions from Indigenous mine deal exposed
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CEO’s plan for personal millions from Indigenous mine deal exposed

The land council’s mine was expected to produce $1 billion in revenue and the chief executive asked for his own cut.

  • byNick McKenzie
Sensors,escape-proof windows,24-hour supervision:Inside a sex offender’s NDIS-funded home
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Sensors,escape-proof windows,24-hour supervision:Inside a sex offender’s NDIS-funded home

Clinical experts and justice officials fear the NDIS is ill-equipped to deal with sex offenders,putting the safety of the public and support workers at risk.

  • byChris Vedelago
NDIS pays $1.4m to paedophile:How sex offenders access disability packages
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NDIS pays $1.4m to paedophile:How sex offenders access disability packages

As the disability scheme wrestles with blowouts,experts say funding is needed for criminals with disabilities.

  • byChris Vedelago
The Eastwood mansions that signal the vast wealth of the Exclusive Brethren’s Hales family
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The Eastwood mansions that signal the vast wealth of the Exclusive Brethren’s Hales family

An ATO raid on a Brethren-linked company last week has put the spotlight on the immense wealth of the sect’s most influential family.

  • byMichael Bachelard andLucy Macken