Alex Turner-Cohen

The iconic Byron Bay music festival may have been trading while insolvent for months before it collapsed, according to a new liquidator's report.

The directors of Zoya Investments have agreed to a $2 million settlement to end the liquidator's case against them. 

It was lauded as a solution to the housing crisis, but those involved say plans to build an "eco village" in northern New South Wales have gone awry.

Australia has announced an inquiry into a controversial adoption program that has brought thousands of South Korean children here since the Korean war. 

A Korean-born Australian who was sexually assaulted growing up is calling for changes to adoption laws after struggling to remove her adoptive parents from her birth certificate.

The NSW government grants a six-year extension to a controversial coal mine in the Hunter Valley.

An ABC investigation can reveal a popular dog breeder, which was once supplied puppies for Kleenex advertisements, has had its registered breeding status suspended by Dogs NSW and is under scrutiny by the RSPCA.

The breeder's puppies were once featured on Kleenex commercials but it is now under scrutiny from the RSPCA and other pet organisations. 

An investigation into whistleblower allegations finds senior managers at a NSW coal mine were involved in a decision by the mine to award their own companies multi-million-dollar contracts.

A Lions Club member who ordered an investigation into how Need for Feed subsidised volunteer drivers is speaking out after recommendations to improve transparency were not implemented.

A multinational company is taking a small-town Australian cleaner to court, claiming his glass-cleaning product is deceptively similar to its own.

Peter Cowell's whereabouts have been unknown since July 2024, but the ABC has tracked him down to suburban Perth.

A NSW man has claimed to be an admiral for 25 years while peddling a disaster relief scheme, but he has never served in the navy. 

 The ABC can now reveal the story of Peter Cowell.

A New South Wales chef left his debt-riddled companies behind and vanished without a trace. 

After vanishing without a trace, this restaurateur reappeared a year later spruiking a shiny new investment opportunity. But there's just one problem. 

The struggling Dartbrook Coal Mine will stop running less than a year after its new operators tried to revive it. 

A local council has awarded nearly half a million dollars' worth of contracts to a builder with a fraught past. 

A 53-year-old man is in police custody after allegedly stabbing a man to death in a car park on a Charlestown shopping strip.

New Zealand's financial watchdog has issued a warning about an embattled internet scheme founded by an Australian with a colourful past. 

Embattled startup Lightweb suspends refunds to customers indefinitely in the wake of ABC reporting on its founder's identity. 

It was pitched as the opposite of the dark web, an "ethical" version of the internet raising as much as $19 million from backers sold on an Australian man's promise of the "Lightweb".

It was pitched as the opposite of the dark web, an "ethical" version of the internet raising as much as $19 million from backers sold on an Australian man's promise of the "Lightweb".

As many as 2,000 people lined up to give this man their money — and then they learned his true identity.

The mine has cut two-thirds of its workforce as its debt continues to climb past the $200 million mark.