Max Mason

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Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterMay 12, 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? Alceon Private Equity’s IT services business EFEX has been accused of breaching a payout agreement with the founder and former executive of Adelaide technology start-up Logic Plus.

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When WiseTech billionaire Richard White pledged $50 million of his personal fortune to transform the way Australian kids learn science and maths in 2022, the commitment was rightly met with plaudits. White’s origin story is the tech nerd who came good. Loading...

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Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterMay 2, 2025 – 4.38pm 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 mistress of Ben Roberts-Smith threatened to sue Nine and investigative reporter Nick McKenzie, who denies he received privileged information relating to the disgraced soldier’s defamation action.

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Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterMay 1, 2025 – 6.44pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Journalist Nick McKenzie says he used fair, responsible and honest means to obtain material for his investigation into Ben Roberts-Smith as the disgraced soldier attempts to reopen the appeal of his defamation action over a secret recording.

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Max Mason |Primrose Riordan |Sarah Thompson

Jon Adgemis is bunking down in a Bondi apartment owned by billionaire fund manager Will Vicars, as he battles the threat of bankruptcy and the eviction of his family from a house in Sydney’s wealthy eastern suburbs. Adgemis, a former KPMG deal maker turned pub owner, lost a key court battle last week against Monaco-based rag trader Richard Gazal, which threatens to bankrupt him. The two men are in dispute over money Adgemis owes to Gazal, now $26 million including interest. Loading...