The Queensland government is investigating how at least 44 public service email addresses appeared in data that hackers claim was stolen from the cheating website Ashley Madison. The email addresses include those belonging to a detective, a regional councillor and a government official. Nationally, at least 800 government email accounts believed to be linked to […]
Sports is an industry steeped in scandal and major financial wrongdoing, panelists said at an international conference examining financial integrity in sports. That dark side recently had a light shined on it, with the recent indictment of six FIFA officials. The indictments, handed down by the U.S. Department of Justice, accuses the six officials from […]
FIFA president Sepp Blatter will resign from football’s governing body amid a widening corruption scandal and has promised to call for fresh elections to choose a successor. The 79-year-old Blatter was re-elected to a fifth term last weekend, two days after a corruption crisis erupted and seven football officials were arrested in Zurich ahead of […]
FOOTBALL Federation Australia has welcomed the shock resignation of FIFA boss Sepp Blatter, but said the scandal-plagued body needs to go further and introduce “governance reform and a new era of transparency”. The football world was in shock after Blatter’s dramatic decision to stand down once a successor is found at an extraordinary Congress later […]
APRIL 16, 2015 BY KEVIN HORRIDGE IOC sports betting integrity proposals The IOC will implement new recommendations to help combat corruption and match-fixing. (Image: IOC) The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to adopt several new proposals to protect the integrity of Olympic sporting events following the first ever meeting of the International Forum for […]
I was struck by a recent study showing that people might be more likely to cheat on a partner in the year before a milestone birthday. This suggests that if you’re in a committed relationship, you’re at roughly a 10-year cycle for heightened risk of infidelity. Researchers said they worked with Ashley Madison, a dating […]
Mum and dad volunteers are the backbone of grassroots sport in Australia. They lead our sporting clubs and are usually heavily involved in other areas of the community. As a result, the potential for conflicts of interest are common in the club setting and are sometimes impossible to avoid. For example: parents coach their daughter’s […]
THE arrest of an alleged race-fixing gang yesterday is another body blow to harness racing, a sport under pressure for the past few months. New Racing Minister Martin Pakula warned before he took office in November that a full investigation would be instigated into all aspects of the sport. He last month appointed former Victoria […]
It took a few clicks of a mouse for a Sydney finance director to steal more than $7 million dollars from his company – and another 86 for him to gamble most of it away, police will allege. After a three-year global manhunt, what little luck Jason Graham Boatwright had left finally ran out. The […]
Former Queensland rugby league player Jason Smith has been charged for allegedly trafficking cocaine in the state’s south-east. Smith, 42, who also represented Australia and won a premiership with the Bulldogs, was arrested on Monday along with 34-year-old prominent local restaurateur Jason Wood. The pair are alleged to have trafficked 280 grams of cocaine between […]
