Ross Jones

Ross Jones is a licensed private enquiry agent and Sydney bureau chief of Independent Australia.

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

You can follow Ross Jones on Twitter @RPZJones.

Articles written by Ross Jones (147)

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?

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