Liam Walsh is an investigations reporter with ABC News in Queensland. He has won multiple media awards for his coverage of issues like political corruption and corporate wrongdoing. His experience ranges from working in newspapers in Japan to The Australian Financial Review. Contact Liam on [email protected] , via encrypted app Signal , or post to "Liam Walsh ABC" PO Box 9994 Brisbane 4001.
He is in charge of Australian sport's biggest money-pots. But can Brisbane's Olympic boss manage the tensions surrounding the 2032 Games?
Topic: Olympic Games Organising Committee
The Mar-a-Lago invoice helped kill the Gold Coast mayor's Trump Tower conflict of interest concerns, yet the council says it has no copy.
The looming rape trial of former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann has been postponed amid a bitter courtroom clash between lawyers.
The quiet axing of the proposed temporary artwork has amplified perceptions that Indigenous voices in state activities are being erased.
The lawsuit filed by Sandi Hayes, former director of research at the Cancer Council Queensland, marks the latest upheaval for a charity supporting thousands of patients and raising tens of millions of dollars annually.
Under-fire Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate says he had a conversation about tariffs with US President Donald Trump just before dinner at Mar-a-Lago — despite the Trump Organization claiming no such dinner happened.
Tom Tate declared he had dinner with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. An ABC investigation has uncovered conflicting recollections about the headline-making trip.
Corporate Travel Management is refunding clients after it was revealed the company had failed to pass on margins and rebates relating to suppliers including hotels and airlines.
Topic: Business, Economics and Finance
The ABC can reveal a Brisbane-based travel company was invoicing the government for more rooms than a hotel actually had.
Topic: Business, Economics and Finance
Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie personally approved town planning changes championing house development in a zone where landowners included a developer who had just donated $50,000 for a private lunch with the politician.
Topic: State and Territory Government
The Office of Fair Trading confirmed that One Nation Queensland Division Inc had until midway through next month to file audited accounts for the financial years from 2023 to 2025.
The gifts, revealed exclusively by the ABC today, are part of a wider series of examples of attempted influence-peddling from businesses and sporting bodies before the Games kick off in 2032.
A cybersecurity company with financial red flags received a $15m state contract in the dying days of the Miles government.
Topic: State and Territory Parliament
After an arranged marriage to tobacco baron Sam Albion, Kawther Salih says the relationship spiralled into an abusive situation that saw her subjugated into working in the underground tobacco industry.
More than $170,000 in donations from developers has been given to Queensland state politicians since laws banning developer donations were overturned in March.
Topic: State and Territory Government
The developer, David Trask, made the successful bid as a donation at lunch on Friday for the ruling LNP, held at the Brisbane Convention Centre and dubbed "Delivering for Queensland Industry Update".
When the corporate regulator accused RACQ of misleading customers with insurance renewal notices, the insurer apologised. Now, it is defending the notices in court filings.
Brisbane-based Corporate Travel Management has detailed a laundry list of concerns about a ballooning scandal, including reliance on potentially fake documents.
Topic: Business, Economics and Finance
The fines were issued against an operation that breached credit rules and generated more than $91 million in fees and charges.
The lack of investigation into deaths at the $700 million beef business has been described as "completely unacceptable" by a legal expert who argued industry had captured government regulators.
Developer Chris Pinzone, who was central to former Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale's corruption case, has been pursued in a number of civil cases.
Inside the business and legal challenges David Young faced as he aspired to build Trump Tower on the Gold Coast.
Topic: Urban Development and Planning
The Emerald District Court ruled the initial fine – far beyond what prosecutors had even sought – was excessive and errors occurred in sentencing.
The businessman behind a proposed Trump Tower on the Gold Coast ran a development business that collapsed owing $28 million.
Topic: Urban Development and Planning
A search by the ABC of federal insolvency records reveals the developer has had personal financial scrapes.
Topic: Urban Development and Planning
