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A star One Nation candidate said he was a criminal lawyer. There's no record of that

A key One Nation candidate in Victoria claims on campaign material and in multiple interviews to be a former criminal lawyer.


But when Crikey received a tip-off that, in fact, Mark Nicholson had never been formally admitted as a lawyer, a required step under Australian law to be able to call yourself a lawyer, we went digging in the complex maze of the Australian legal admission system.Nicholson, the party’s upper house candidate for the Northern Metropolitan region, uses his experience as a...
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Firing, hiring, eating up youth culture: What is Vinyl Group up to?

When the rumours first began swirling earlier this year that Nine was considering selling Pedestrian — one of Australia’s homegrown youth media success stories — the immediate question in journalists’ group chats was “Who the hell would buy this?”


Only one company was consistently named: Vinyl Group. And for good reason. Over the past two and a half years, Vinyl has been slowly buying Australian digital media outlets, including Rolling Stone Australia, Concrete Playground and Time Out Austral...
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Keeping it in the family: Australia’s modern media dynasties

The adage that it’s not what you know but who you know is rarely truer than in the Australian media sector. 


There are all sorts of ways to get into the industry, whether it be the likes of political reporter Thomas Henry parlaying a News Corp cadetship into a permanent role under his parents at The Australian, or Luca Lavigne becoming, at 28, the male CEO of a women’s media group founded by his mother.

The adage that it’s not what you know but who you know is rarely truer than in the Austra...
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