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How to prevent fraud on your watch – 25 March 2021
The Australian Institute of Criminology has estimated that fraud accounts for 40 per cent of total crime costs in Australia. Professor Clinton Free from the University of Sydney Business School says a lot of fraud goes undetected and some that is detected is not reported. He discusses ways to identify and prevent fraud.
Integrity commissioner to conduct own review into RV bungle – 25 March 2021
Phone records will be extracted as part of an investigation by Victoria’s racing integrity commissioner Sean Carroll into the reasons why stomach-tubing charges were dropped against racehorse trainer Richard Laming.
Dodgy Apple nabbed again – 21 March 2021
A US Federal Court judge ordered Apple to pay A$395.5 million to Personalized Media Communications after a jury ruled the tech giant infringed a patent related to digital rights management.
https://www.channelnews.com.au/dodgy-apple-nabbed-again-this-time-for-another-patent-infringement/
We don’t trust our politicians to investigate corruption, study finds – 21 March 2021
Griffith University and Transparency International Australia have released a report that explains that while we trust our politicians to handle COVID, we find the opposite to be true regarding political corruption.
