The industry’s peak body would like to see stricter regulations on drivers.

Australia’s biggest cab company’s rule switch on complaining customers

Leaked emails show the company behind 13cabs was warned its rule change could be unlawful,as a peak taxi body calls for tougher penalties against crooked cabbies.

  • Nick McKenzie,Chris Barrett andBrittany Busch

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A2B Ltd operates the 13cabs network in Australia.

‘Fraud all over the place’:Taxi giant’s former integrity insider blows whistle on rampant rip-offs

A former federal police officer hired to clean up integrity at the company behind 13cabs and Cabcharge claims it had little genuine interest in tackling the rampant rip-offs enabled by its technology.

  • Nick McKenzie andBrittany Busch
Premier Jacinta Allan and Police Minister Anthony Carbines.

‘Absolutely vile’:Allan says taxi industry needs to clean up its act

The Victorian premier said “disgusting” behaviour by a taxi driver revealed in an investigation by this masthead should send a message to others in the industry.

  • Rachel Eddie,Brittany Busch andNick McKenzie
Sandy Guy with her son Liam,who was abused by his taxi driver.

499 crimes:Cab driver caught on CCTV abusing,ripping off passengers with disabilities

The scale of alleged fraud and other criminality in the taxi industry has outraged leading judges as well as consumer and disability advocates.

  • Nick McKenzie,Brittany Busch andAmelia Ballinger
Hundreds of hours of footage showed the driver mistreating his vulnerable disabled customers.
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Police busted this cab driver for drink-driving,his CCTV revealed much more

Hundreds of hours of footage showed the driver mistreating his vulnerable disabled customers.

It did not take long for a taxi driver to pounce on someone they thought was an elderly,vulnerable traveller.
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This 10-minute trip cost $325.29:Undercover taxi passenger reveals rort

It did not take long for a taxi driver to pounce on someone they thought was an elderly,vulnerable traveller.

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The company which owns brands like 13cabs and Cabcharge insists it has taken action to limit rorts.
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Taxi company denies its products ‘facilitating fraud’

The company which owns brands like 13cabs and Cabcharge insists it has taken action to limit rorts.

The company behind 13cabs and Cabcharge is accused by its own staff of ignoring rampant fraud.

How nation’s largest taxi company has taken public for a ride

A massive document leak has laid bare how many cab drivers are scamming their customers,and how little is done about it.

  • Nick McKenzie,Brittany Busch andAmelia Ballinger
Belle Gibson

Revealed:The Age stories that exposed Belle Gibson’s lies

Wellness warrior Belle Gibson was a successful young app developer,author and mother. This is how our journalists exposed the holes in her story.

Steve Blore was the pin-up boy for Climate Friendly. Until the rules changed.

‘Parasites’,‘cowboys’:The carbon companies dividing rural Australia

Carbon developers descended on rural Australia 10 years ago promising big money and an easy fix to complex problems. Today,farmers are crying foul.

  • Charlotte Grieve andMichael Bachelard