Max Mason

Sydney

Senior Reporter at Australian Financial Review

Senior reporter @FinancialReview. Former media editor. Get in touch: [email protected] ProtonMail: [email protected] Signal: maxepmason14

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ASIC’s WiseTech Global investigation goes from preliminary to formal

1 week ago | afr.com | Max Mason |Kate McClymont

The corporate regulator’s inquiries into WiseTech Global founder Richard White’s share trading and the software giant’s market disclosures have progressed from a preliminary stage to a formal investigation.
Former Tabcorp chief Adam Rytenskild alleges boardroom full of sexist, sexual remarks

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Max Mason

Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterApr 9, 2025 – 3.45pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Former Tabcorp chief executive Adam Rytenskild has accused the bookmaker’s directors of making sexual and sexist remarks, saying they hypocritically fired him for allegedly making similar comments.
Westpac says loan fraud whistleblower got bigger bonus, not cast out

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Max Mason

Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterApr 9, 2025 – 9.33am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Westpac says it proposed increasing the bonus of a risk executive who flagged fraud issues with mortgage broker subsidiary RAMS Home Loans, contrary to her claims that she lost money and was cast out as a troublemaker.
Battery policy makes ‘economic sense for everyone’

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Max Mason

Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterApr 6, 2025 – 6.30pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Labor’s pledge to subsidise the installation of new home batteries is expected to charge take-up, help households save on their energy bills and reduce the time it takes to pay off making the switch to about half a dozen years.
Financial Review readers park US travel plans in wake of Trump

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Max Mason

Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterApr 6, 2025 – 2.11pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Readers of The Australian Financial Review are turning off travelling to the United States due to the Trump administration’s aggressive approach to border control and diversity issues.
HESTA hits out at WiseTech’s board governance, says it ‘falls short’

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Max Mason |Tess Bennett

Industry superannuation giant HESTA says the return of WiseTech Global’s former chairman Andrew Harrison as an independent director at the logistics software group has failed to meet its expectations of proper corporate governance. HESTA, which manages $91 billion in investments, is the second industry fund in the past month to raise concerns about WiseTech’s leadership and governance.
Ladbrokes and Neds parent Entain’s blind eye to drug money laundering revealed in court filings

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Zoe Samios |Max Mason

Apr 1, 2025 – 4.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The British bookmaking giant behind Ladbrokes and Neds allegedly failed to cut off a customer who punted more than $1 million in a year despite having details of a transfer into his account from an internationally wanted criminal who was suspected of trafficking drugs in South-East Asia.
ATO alleges ex-EY partner Peter White ‘lined his pockets’ with client money

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Max Mason

Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterMar 31, 2025 – 2.02pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Former EY partner Peter White “lined his and his friend’s pockets” with secret commissions from clients by failing to disclose relationships he had with companies he used for facilitating illegal tax schemes, the Tax Office alleges. Former EY partner Peter White. Loading...
WiseTech’s former chairman returns as independent director

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Max Mason

Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterMar 31, 2025 – 11.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Former WiseTech Global chairman Andrew Harrison will return to the logistics software giant’s board in an attempt to soothe investor angst over a lack of independent directors.
Former EY partner being sued by ATO challenges tax assessment

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Max Mason

Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterMar 31, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The former EY partner who is alleged to have taken $700,000 in secret commissions while setting up illegal tax schemes for wealthy clients is challenging the Tax Office’s personal assessment of his affairs.