Investigations

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Betting

Australia's smallest territory is largely responsible for the country's regulation over online sports betting.

Infrastructure

Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars continue to be spent on stadiums, and funding for grassroots facilities is often political.

Cost

Participants and parents can pay thousands in fees and levies, and sport's administrators are obliged to deliver value for money.

Governance

Just as in broader society, those in sport who enjoy power must be held to account.

Portfolio

A collection of previous work.

Documentary producer

The Big Deal, a feature-length documentary about money and influence in politics, was released in the lead-up to the 2022 Australian election.

Lobbyist monitoring

The National Advocate newsletter leveraged long-running scrapers to collate and analyse changes to the Australian federal, state and territory lobbyist registers in 2019 and 2020, and was featured in newspaper The Financial Review.

International exclusives

Uncovered stories about Australia's lax record of environmental inspections in Antarctica, secret tweaks to Australia's migration system that disadvantaged Asian migrants, and a hidden investigation into the behaviour of touring footballers in Cambodia.

Grant scrutiny

Identified the Australian government's bias in awarding community sport infrastructure grants, and helped pursue reform as part of the Sport Rorts scandal.