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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Amanda Meade

A tale of two stories as the Age and the Australian search for truth amid the haze

A stock image of a person breathing out smoke
Geoff Bainbridge resigned on Wednesday as the chief executive of Lark Distillery, an ASX-listed alcohol company, but accounts of his downfall vary widely. Photograph: Tony Phillips/AAP

Depending on which newspaper you read, Geoff Bainbridge is either a chief executive who lost his job after he was exposed smoking a substance purported to be meth in one of several videos filmed last year, or he is the victim of an elaborate six-year extortion racket by foreign criminals.

Bainbridge resigned on Wednesday as the chief executive of Lark Distillery, an ASX-listed alcohol company, after the footage was published in the Australian.

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