Liam Walsh
Investigations Reporter at Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Reporter investigations at ABC. Ex-Courier-Mail & AFR in Qld, Mainichi Daily News in Japan. [email protected] / [email protected] or post 👇
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Rory Callinan |Liam Walsh
Queensland's health minister has called on the federal government to tighten laws after revelations about how largely unregulated private ATMs are helping fuel illegal tobacco sales. An ABC investigation on Wednesday detailed how private ATMs — including those from a company whose major backer is prestigious investment bank Macquarie Group — were being installed in stores selling black-market tobacco.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Rory Callinan |Liam Walsh
It's known as the millionaires' factory: one of the nation's most prestigious investment banks with a reputation for creating enormous fortunes from blue-chip companies. But an ABC investigation has found that among multimillion dollar investments held by the prestigious Australian-founded Macquarie Group is a company raking in dollars from the nation's booming illegal tobacco trade.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Liam Walsh |Rory Callinan
Brisbane's aims of becoming a city of tree shade to help alleviate urban heat islands in the lead up to the 2032 Olympics have gone backwards. An internal council review, obtained exclusively by the ABC, warned that shade cover had "declined from 35 per cent to 32 per cent" in the ten years to 2019.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Liam Walsh |Rory Callinan
An internal council review reveals the number of good-condition trees on streets is far below government targets. Council has rejected that problems with trees had exacerbated cyclone damage during Alfred. An ABC review found Energex slashed annual plant-clearing budgets by tens of millions of dollars in the past 10 years. Brisbane's council failed to keep hundreds of thousands of its trees in good condition, raising the risk of damage to property or infrastructure, an internal review shows.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Liam Walsh |Ben Butler |Jessica Longbottom
More people have been left scrambling in the wake of a disability accommodation company shutting down operations, including subcontractors, a former AFL footballer and a finance group from Asia. NDISP, which ceased operating this month, has also faced complaints from investors whose properties it oversaw, and from a parent over the care of his son who has a disability.
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