Ross Jones

• Ross Jones is the investigations editor for Independent Australia.

  He is also the author of the two-year investigation, Ashbygate: the plot to destroy Australia's Speaker, published by IA, 2015.

Articles written by Ross Jones (217)

• 29 April 2025 | Clive Palmer's Trumpets blowing nothing but hot air
• 16 December 2024 | U.S. loses control of airspace as mysterious drone sightings escalate
• 15 July 2024 | Clive Palmer teams with Tucker Carlson for RWNJ tour
• 21 February 2024 | Nazis, booze and politics don't mix
• 24 January 2024 | Wagyu beef all the way as Gina fuels Ashby's election bid
• 10 January 2024 | Albo knows the price of yum cha in Marrickville
• 14 December 2023 | Pauline Hanson launches Ashbygate James towards the Keppel wrecks
• 13 December 2023 | EDITORIAL: Pauline Hanson launches Ashbygate James towards the Keppel wrecks
• 29 November 2023 | American media turning 2024 Election into a farce
• 22 November 2023 | Ralph Babet is a danger to democracy
• 7 November 2023 | Women stand against murderous theocracies
• 31 August 2023 | Plot thickens in One Nation soap opera as Mark Latham takes a bow
• 14 July 2023 | Barnaby bites back after sandwich-board encounter in Fadden
• 20 March 2023 | NSW Labor should have Perrottet on toast
• 13 February 2023 | Albo's rock star welcome at Labor conference
• 4 November 2022 | Pauline Hanson's costly role in One Nation courtroom drama
• 20 October 2022 | Andy Probyn and the 'Dobber-in-Chief'
• 19 October 2022 | EDITORIAL: Andy Probyn and the 'Dobber-in-Chief'
• 27 September 2022 | Dutton's alleged corrupt link to drug kingpin: FLASHBACK 2019
• 23 August 2022 | Barnaby Joyce wasn't drunk... no! It was just another Oscar-winning performance: Flashback 2021
• 18 May 2022 | FIN is the real deal in fight for anti-corruption commission
• 14 May 2022 | James Ashby could face being $4.5 million in debt to the Government
• 4 April 2022 | Labor's talk is strong, but FIN is the best choice to end corruption
• 25 February 2022 | Get your first look at new anti-corruption party FIN on Saturday 26 February
• 27 January 2022 | Australia's corruption score plummets to shameful new low
• 5 January 2022 | FIN won't take sides in fighting corruption
• 14 December 2021 | Alex Antic a poster boy for Australia's Trumpists
• 28 November 2021 | Coalition derails Federal ICAC on technicality
• 3 November 2021 | Flashback 2014: Arthur Sinodinos goes down the gurgler
• 5 October 2021 | NSW corruption: Gladys Berejiklian is just the beginning
• 9 September 2021 | Australia's first anti-corruption party: FIN is now official
• 6 September 2021 | Clive Palmer's UAP membership may be an offer you can't refuse
• 26 August 2021 | Corrupting democracy — we need to say "FIN"
• 25 August 2021 | EDITORIAL: Corrupting democracy — we need to say "FIN"
• 23 August 2021 | Killing competition and a Federal ICAC, courtesy of the Coalition
• 7 August 2021 | Barnaby Joyce wasn't drunk... no! It was just another Oscar-winning performance
• 29 July 2021 | Date looming for James Ashby debt decision
• 6 March 2021 | Scott Morrison extends sympathy to Christian Porter amidst speculation
• 22 February 2021 | Twin threats of Mark Zuckerberg and Josh Frydenberg damaging Australia
• 13 February 2021 | Mainstream media quick to ignore Kristina Keneally's corruption accusations
• 1 February 2021 | Paying the piper with One Nation's James Ashby
• 11 December 2020 | Government's proposed anti-corruption body 'a post-modern joke'
• 6 November 2020 | Proposed Commonwealth Integrity Commission would be an LNP weapon
• 2 October 2020 | One Nation loses $500K to troubled investment company
• 12 August 2020 | Federal ICAC Now: You can make a difference
• 27 July 2020 | James Ashby took the Speaker to Court and lost — but the piper must be paid
• 21 July 2020 | Another day, another rort: The case for a Federal ICAC Now!
• 29 June 2020 | The birth of Federal ICAC Now
• 25 May 2020 | Coalition's COVID-19 Commission: Another reason for a Federal ICAC Now!
• 12 May 2020 | Angus Taylor and the need for a Federal ICAC Now!
• 30 March 2020 | Wanted: A prime minister able to deal with a crisis
• 7 March 2020 | Economy needs a kickstart to avoid perfect storm
• 5 February 2020 | National Party sharks circle after failed Barnaby Joyce leadership challenge
• 3 February 2020 | The climate-denying John Barilaro joke is on us
• 20 January 2020 | Bushfire-ravaged communities just need 'tax exemptions' says IPA
• 5 January 2020 | Donald Trump's impeachment possibilities
• 10 November 2019 | Questions loom over One Nation's finances
• 15 October 2019 | PHON members fundraise to attend AGM — oh, and to topple Hanson and Ashby
• 10 August 2019 | Frydenberg caught out on citizenship lie
• 19 July 2019 | Frydenberg & Dutton skate on s44 thin ice — pursued by pensioner on electric bike
• 27 May 2019 | Brian Burston and the lurid viscera of One Nation
• 13 May 2019 | Barnaby Joyce and the New England odds
• 23 April 2019 | The mystery of Advance Australia, Captain GetUp and the AEC
• 8 April 2019 | Dutton's 'adviser' Ray Hadley and the case of the on-again-off-again visa
• 1 April 2019 | James Ashby's brilliant career
• 26 March 2019 | The death of our seafood, oceans — oh, and us
• 3 March 2019 | Home Affairs Department fobs off Dutton corruption allegations
• 17 February 2019 | Slippery James Ashby vs Burston the bloody Beagle: The Clash of the Tits
• 13 February 2019 | Dutton's alleged corrupt link to drug kingpin
• 8 January 2019 | Is Fraser Anning Australia's new Nazi Reichsleiter?
• 7 December 2018 | The consequences to Sydney of Liberal re-election
• 8 November 2018 | The skeletons in Barnaby's closet
• 17 October 2018 | The libertarian conspiracy behind the Ramsay Centre
• 20 September 2018 | The Nationals' Barnaby problem
• 19 September 2018 | EDITORIAL: The Nationals' Barnaby problem
• 6 September 2018 | Gina Rinehart and the CEF millions
• 5 September 2018 | EDITORIAL: Gina Rinehart and the mysterious CEF millions
• 31 August 2018 | Daily Telegraph bashes bible-basher bashers up Hillsong and down dale
• 17 August 2018 | Fraser Anning: My brush with infamy
• 2 August 2018 | How Gina Rinehart bought the IPA
• 1 August 2018 | EDITORIAL: Rinehart and the IPA
• 22 June 2018 | Clive Palmer and One Nation's Brian Burston: A match made in Heaven
• 8 June 2018 | Hanson, Burston and the never-ending One Nation Ponzi scheme
• 18 May 2018 | Pauline Hanson named One Nation's President for Life — for now
• 4 May 2018 | ASIC, the AEC, James Ashby's One Nation aircraft and other drop bears
• 23 April 2018 | Welcome baby Sebastian Joyce/Campion to Barnaby's (albeit dystopian) world
• 10 March 2018 | Barnaby Joyce's 'grey area': The other allegations
• 9 February 2018 | The Barnaby Joyce miracle
• 30 December 2017 | #3 TOP IA STORY OF 2017: Barnaby Joyce: Peeling back the rumours
• 29 December 2017 | #4 TOP IA STORY OF 2017: Tony Abbott's citizenship letter and the Home Office
• 29 December 2017 | #5 TOP IA STORY OF 2017: Pauline Hanson lying high: The strange case of James Ashby's aeroplane
• 29 November 2017 | NOT stalked or ambushed! Aggro Joyce gets in another Barney with constituents
• 19 November 2017 | EXCLUSIVE! Barnaby Joyce: Peeling back the rumours
• 29 September 2017 | Malcolm Roberts and the Gold Ashbys
• 22 August 2017 | Barnaby Joyce and Labor's s44 giant piñata
• 15 August 2017 | Barnaby Joyce and Section 44: This Coalition Government is over
• 29 July 2017 | Tony Abbott's citizenship letter and the Home Office
• 22 June 2017 | Pauline Hanson's continuing legal saga with PHON ex-treasurer Ian Nelson
• 3 June 2017 | George Brandis, James Ashby and One Nation's perfect storm
• 27 May 2017 | Michael Pucci: The One Nation standover man
• 4 April 2017 | The Russians are coming to help the Alt-Right make Australia great again
• 25 March 2017 | One Nation candidates vent their outrage about WA, Ashby, Nagle and Hanson
• 9 March 2017 | Disaster at Avalon: The F-35 Strikes out
• 4 March 2017 | WA WA Land: Inside One Nation's Western Australian scampaign
• 12 February 2017 | James Ashby vs Cory Bernardi: Rat vs Rat
• 22 January 2017 | One Nation Wars: Operation Rissole Rodney
• 18 January 2017 | Pauline Hanson lying high: The strange case of James Ashby's aeroplane
• 7 January 2017 | EXCLUSIVE: J. Ashby faces defamation action from former One Nation boss
• 18 November 2016 | PHONE A FRIEND: Ashby Culleton feud throws One Nation white off the rails
• 6 November 2016 | 'Bob Ellis: In His Own Words' launch and review
• 21 October 2016 | Australian Defence in a world of Payne — or is that Pyne?
• 5 October 2016 | AFP drop Ashbygate: The rank stain
• 22 September 2016 | Senator James Ashby: Why not?
• 2 September 2016 | Arthur Sinodinos thinks he's in the clear — but clearly he's forgotten a few things
• 29 August 2016 | Tony Abbott's British citizenship and the Warringah challenge
• 17 August 2016 | Christopher 'The Clown' Pyne's pair despair conceals the Coalition's lies
• 10 August 2016 | One Nation: Under new management
• 7 July 2016 | James Ashby: Pauline Hanson's hand grenade
• 25 June 2016 | Fisher's bad luck continues as LNP nominates anti-tradie candidate
• 18 June 2016 | Dudded Dennis Jensen exposes the Liberal Party's Parakeelia rip-off
• 14 June 2016 | Parakeelia: The (almost) perfect Liberal Party scam
• 25 May 2016 | Devil take the hindmost! Inside the IPA and Leyonhjelm's Libertarians
• 20 May 2016 | Ashby, Brough and the AFP: One week Flick and they're gone
• 13 May 2016 | Ashby's phone records, the AFP and Federal Court Justice Flick
• 6 May 2016 | Brace yourself for an orgy of cash for cronies before we go into caretaker mode
• 29 April 2016 | Sinodinos: The not so Artful Dodger
• 23 April 2016 | Labor’s banking royal commission: One of the all time greatest wedgies
• 26 March 2016 | Will the Libs spill the beans on their illegal donors?
• 19 March 2016 | Refugees: Why we should let them stay
• 27 February 2016 | Malcolm Thomas Brough: Born 1961. Sacked 2016
• 15 February 2016 | AFP front Senate Estimates over endless Ashbygate investigation
• 2 February 2016 | Brough, Pyne and Roy — and News Corp's newfound interest in Ashbygate
• 30 December 2015 | Brough and Briggs booted as sneaky Turnbull takes out the summer trash
• 16 December 2015 | Why should we be concerned by the destruction of Peter Slipper?
• 10 December 2015 | Ashbygate launches: Big Bill, Brough and the book
• 5 December 2015 | Ashbygate regime change: 'News will sort'
• 2 December 2015 | Mal Brough and his Federal Court 'exoneration'
• 1 December 2015 | Steve Lewis and the evasions of Mal Brough — the Ashbygate lame duck
• 30 November 2015 | The recurring James Ashby infects Mal Brough
• 26 November 2015 | ASHBYGATE BOOK EXCERPT: Palmer accuses Brough of Ashby conspiracy
• 18 November 2015 | The Ashby raid and the potential charges
• 17 November 2015 | The worm turns as the AFP raids Ashby over Brough, Pyne and Roy
• 7 October 2015 | The coming dust-up between Malcolm Talcum and big tough Mal Brough
• 28 September 2015 | Mal Brough, Slipper's diary and the AFP
• 20 September 2015 | Sending F18s to Syrian battlezone a dumb idea
• 15 September 2015 | Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull: The sitting duck
• 24 July 2015 | Coming soon (for your enjoyment): The final implosion of Menzies' creation
• 21 July 2015 | James Ashby and Pauline Hanson: Who loves ya, baby?
• 4 July 2015 | The puzzle of Joe Hockey vs Fairfax
• 2 June 2015 | Terri Butler on Abbott's citizenship: Not gagged, just not interested
• 29 May 2015 | You've got to hand it to Abbott (citizenship, that is)
• 12 May 2015 | The mystery of Earth companion 1991 VG
• 11 May 2015 | Joe Hockey's piggy 'trickle down' Budget
• 3 April 2015 | AEC returns: Adding up who owns our democracy
• 25 March 2015 | Liberals march on Poleland
• 22 March 2015 | How to take over a country
• 11 March 2015 | Joe Hockey: Beached as...
• 5 March 2015 | Abbott's folly: Boots on the ground in Iraq
• 3 March 2015 | Malcolm Turnbull: Rain man
• 26 February 2015 | Higginson reveals Liberal Party chaos: Where did all the money go?
• 17 February 2015 | Tony Abbott's dual citizenship: Stop asking questions — he's the PM!
• 10 February 2015 | Abbott's Libspill: A strange mutiny
• 5 February 2015 | OTT Tony avoids Brough end — for now
• 1 February 2015 | Tony Abbott's Brough replacement
• 26 January 2015 | Labor MP asks PM Abbott to prove he's not a British dual citizen
• 24 January 2015 | PM on the rocks: Abbott's insider revolt and Fairfax's fun
• 14 January 2015 | Corporate greed, environmental decay and the police state
• 5 January 2015 | The IPA, Friedrich Hayek and the 'socialist conservative' — Tony Abbott
• 27 December 2014 | Why One Term Tony doesn't care
• 22 December 2014 | The Great Abbott Cabinet Reshuffle
• 17 December 2014 | Three wise men, the Sydney Siege and the media delight
• 14 December 2014 | Tony Abbott's Warringah Club doesn't add up
• 5 December 2014 | A year in the life of the Abbott Government tough guys
• 17 November 2014 | Punching with your eyes shut
• 12 November 2014 | A gem or a dual? Tony Abbott's Lying-ingate
• 8 October 2014 | Australia’s forthcoming conscription
• 25 September 2014 | Mr and Mrs Pyne’s excellent upgraded European adventure
• 24 September 2014 | Mr and Mrs Pyne’s economy European adventure
• 4 September 2014 | The strange and suspicious case of Tony Abbott’s citizenship
• 29 July 2014 | The Peter Slipper conviction and the AFP
• 7 June 2014 | Dear Alan Jones
• 20 May 2014 | ICAC: Hartcher, Watson and the shovel
• 19 May 2014 | Sydney March in May: A glorious day of fun and indignation
• 15 May 2014 | ICAC and the bagman who tipped a bucket
• 7 May 2014 | ICAC, rotten apples and the big fish
• 29 April 2014 | ICAC, Watson and the Coalition slush funds
• 24 April 2014 | The Joint Strike Fighter purchase: Someone must have been smoking one
• 16 April 2014 | Barry and Tony's Bizarro home on the Grange
• 6 April 2014 | Arthur Sinodinos goes down the gurgler
• 1 April 2014 | Prepare for a lot more about Arthur Sinodinos
• 25 March 2014 | Back to the future with Tony Abbott
• 1 October 2013 | Launching the SAP
• 17 September 2013 | The rise of religionism
• 8 August 2013 | Political fact checkers — useful as pet rocks
• 24 July 2013 | The fresh prince of over there
• 5 July 2013 | The Slipper and Palmer spray painting
• 30 June 2013 | Slipper, Palmer, Brough and Joe "go to hell" Hockey
• 26 June 2013 | Ashbygate workplace investigation
• 7 June 2013 | Ashbygate vultures
• 1 June 2013 | The Ashbygate hedge and Bob's DPP
• 24 May 2013 | How Aussie Jack helped send Ford back
• 17 May 2013 | Tony Abbott's cut-price budget reply
• 13 May 2013 | How Clive Palmer sold Peter Slipper a PUP
• 3 May 2013 | Ashbygate leave to appeal: Day 2
• 23 April 2013 | Tom Waterhouse and the election
• 18 April 2013 | The 'appeal' of the AFP
• 16 April 2013 | Is that a fire?
• 5 April 2013 | How Howard politicised the AFP and protected Downer and Bolt
• 26 March 2013 | Graham Perrett pushes indolent AFP over Ashbygate
• 20 March 2013 | A conversation with Arfur
• 11 March 2013 | Let them drive Comcars
• 5 March 2013 | The Ashbygate puppets
• 28 February 2013 | IA EXCLUSIVE: Slipper and Perrett discuss the AFP’s Brough probe suspension
• 24 February 2013 | The Perrett complaint
• 22 February 2013 | Ashbygate arousal 2: MP sex scandal
• 15 February 2013 | Ashbygate and the art of arousal
• 1 February 2013 | Who's afraid of James Ashby?