Sarah Danckert
Senior Business Reporter
Sarah Danckert is a business reporter who specialises in investigations and corporate wrongdoing. She is a two-time Walkley Award winner, and has won six Quill Awards and two Kennedy Awards.
Pity, fury and white line fever: The resuscitation of Melbourne Rebels
As a rugby union who’s who gathered for lunch this week, the future of the embattled club was on everyone’s lips. How do you save a loss-making operation without leaving a sour taste in anyone’s mouth?
- by Sarah Danckert and Carla Jaeger
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‘Accident waiting to happen’: Former safety manager says concerns raised before Ballarat mine collapse
Rick Walker savaged the Ballarat Gold Mine’s owner, saying repeated safety concerns were raised before the rock collapse that killed one worker and left another with life-threatening injuries.
- by Benjamin Preiss and Sarah Danckert
The Australian ‘banks’ of sovereign citizens – and the havoc they wreak
Creditnet Bank Internationale has no office and does not take deposits from consumers. Yet the group has found itself at the centre of controversial moments in Australian corporate history and an attempted $25 billion fraud on the nation of Palau.
- by Sarah Danckert
Economic headwinds hamper AMP’s banking business
While shareholders cheered the overall result as being not as bad as expected, the group was challenged over lacklustre performance by its AMP Bank division.
- by Sarah Danckert
Battle building between billionaire brickmakers, with dispute set for trial
Australia’s largest brick company Brickworks is seeking to force the billionaire Buckeridge family’s construction empire to divest a subsidiary over competition concerns.
- by Sarah Danckert
How governance tipples gave Top Shelf investors a hangover
The troubles at Top Shelf are another example of an ASX hopeful that holds much promise but has so far failed to deliver for many of its shareholders.
- by Sarah Danckert
Pokies giant gets orders against senior staffer who allegedly downloaded cache of company documents
Aristocrat Leisure has won urgent orders stopping its head of game design from using any of the 6800 files he allegedly downloaded from the group’s servers.
- by Sarah Danckert
Macquarie to fight illegal profiteering allegations in four US class actions
The energy trading arm of Macquarie Group faces claims it illegally profiteered from a deadly 2021 ice storm by deliberately pushing up gas prices by more than 1000 per cent.
- by Sarah Danckert
Once was adored: What went wrong with Adore Beauty
Adore Beauty entered the ASX in late 2020 with a market capitalisation of $650 million, enticing more women to invest for the first time. Now the gloss has worn off.
- by Sarah Danckert
Crown encourages employees to speak out as CEO probe launched
Crown employees are being urged to speak out about improper conduct after an investigation was launched into allegations its CEO allowed patrons to gamble even though they had been blocked by security.
- by Josh Gordon and Sarah Danckert