She was the sort of person organisations like to have at the front of the room. Passionate. Accomplished. Articulate. A champion for migrant and refugee women. Eman Sharobeem had built an impressive public reputation after arriving in Australia from Egypt. She became CEO of the Immigrant Women's Health Service and was also in day-to-day charge of the Non-English Speaking Housing Women's Scheme. She was invited to government events. She advised on issues affecting multicultura

Every scandal begins with a warning that was ignored. The first time he lied his way into a public sector job, nobody caught him. Nor the second. Or the third. Or the fourth. Or the fifth. Or the sixth. Six job applications. Four public sector organisations. By the time the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption finally put the pieces together, Zoran Ribicic had spent more than a decade using false or misleading qualifications, employment history and references to secu

There is a quiet, dangerous comfort in the phrases we use to brush aside warnings. “That’s just how this industry operates.” “Let’s deal with that when we have to.” “It’s not that big an issue.” “I don’t want to know.” Deliberate blindness may offer temporary comfort. But it often ends with a crisis and a knock at the door. All too often, what follows is a shift from accountability to blame and obfuscation, accompanied by the silent wish that earlier warnings had been heeded

How an Investigation Undermined a Bulletproof Case. The investigator reviewed the access logs. The employee was on extended leave. Yet, the system showed he had entered a restricted facility. His security pass had expired. But he had simply "tailgated" his way through the security gates, following a co-worker inside. But that wasn’t the most alarming discovery. A forensic review of his workstation revealed a massive data transfer. More than 30,000 files had been quietly sipho