Punch drunk: it's just another power trip
Mark Dapin People attack other people because, for them, it's fun.
2450 days in prison for a murder he didn't commit
Douglas Jensen wrongly spent almost seven years in jail for murdering his father, and he's still fighting for justice. Here is his story, as told to Susan Chenery.
Cabinet Papers 1986-87: Negative gearing almost axed
Damien Murphy The Hawke government helped sow the seeds of housing unaffordability in Sydney when it backed away from abolishing negative gearing on investment properties, Cabinet records show.
When men become victims of domestic violence
Mark White Domestic violence is more common over the Christmas break, fuelled by alcohol consumption, family tension and financial issues. A small but significant number of the victims are men.
Typhoon Haiyan: the aftermath
Brendan Esposito ‘‘We’re OK. We’re used to this. Our country faces adversity all the time.’’ Chief photographer Brendan Esposito in Tacloban, after the typhoon.
Heart of the slums
TIM ELLIOTT Embedded in the heart of Bangkok's Klong Toey slum, an Australian family is inspired to work with some of the world's most marginalised people.
It's a stick-up!
PAUL MCGEOUGH After Australian Corey Donaldson robbed a US bank, he claimed he'd given all the loot to poor and needy Americans. But is he really a modern-day Robin Hood or simply a con man? By Paul McGeough.
Secrets of the family
TIM ELLIOTT Peace, love and mind control - one Sydney couple's journey through the Twelve Tribes religious cult.
Sandy Hook community heals through goodness
NICK O'MALLEY A year on, the residents of Sandy Hook have chosen love as the mortar to help them rebuild their lives.
Inside the floating of the $A
PETER MARTIN From the moment Paul Keating became treasurer in 1983 he was determined to float the Australian dollar. Now we can reveal what went on behind the scenes 30 years ago.
South Africa facing a future beyond the Mandela legend
Cameron Forbes The great man's personal strength was legendary, but the spirit of peaceful reconciliation he espoused remains a stretch for others.
Natural direction
She has an immaculate Hollywood pedigree, but Isabella Rossellini's recent roles see her playing seductive snails and amorous whales. Pip Cummings meets her in New York.
When the Wolf got caught
NICK MCKENZIE From the sky, the Friday freedom was just one of dozens of dots moving across a vast expanse of blue. But the Australian Customs, Federal Police and US Drug Enforcement Administration agents covertly tracking the vessel in the Bundaberg Cruising Yacht Club's Port2Port Rally suspected it was no ordinary boat. For one, the man at the helm was one hell of a sailor.
The weather vane
He accepts the science of climate change, yet favours a "Direct Action" emissions reduction policy widely dismissed as "useless". No wonder the heat is on federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt. Frank Robson meets him.
Lives in limbo: a family's heartbreak
PAUL MCGEOUGH He walks the streets of Melbourne's Brunswick. When he tires of that, he heads home to watch television - lots of it. Home is a debatable notion for 20-year-old Marwan al-Humrani, the youngest son in a refugee family that's been torn apart by the Iraq Wa
Child of the revolution
Hattie Garlick Sickened by the whole whirl of "kiddie consumerism", Hattie Garlick did something radical – she opted out.
Our national journey to prosperity
MATT WADE Statistics charting progress across Australian election years tell an interesting story, writes Matt Wade
Body of evidence
LISA DAVIES When 33-year-old Nadine Haag was found dead in the shower of her Sydney unit, the police said it was a suicide. But was it? Lisa Davies reports.
The other faces of meth
BENJAMIN LAW Its long-term effects are still to be established, but we do know the drug ice is diabolically addictive.
The meltdown: How Labor self-destructed
Peter Hartcher Together, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard had the support of the nation and the party. Divided, their feud would be the undoing of a government. An investigation by Peter Hartcher.
The devastation from Typhoon Haiyan
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The devastation of Lat-Osan village, Palompon, Leyte, Philippines from typhoon Haiyan. Photographic essay by Brendan Esposito.
Rise and fall of The Godfather
Anne Davies, Sean Nicholls, Linton Besser Eddie Obeid lorded over the Labor party for decades. Our investigations team charts his reach through the ranks.
- THE FINDINGS: Eddie Obeid, Ian Macdonald, Moses Obeid engaged in corrupt practices: ICAC
- UP NEXT: Investigators turn attention to three former ministers
- TIMELINE: ICAC key moments & characters
- KATE McCLYMONT: Obeids finally have more to worry about than the pesky press
- RICK FENELEY: Steady, Eddie, that gun is smokin' hot
- FROM THE GALLERY: Applause, and farewell to new friends, as the best show in town comes to an end
- YOUR LETTERS: Graft findings spur questions over MPs' silence
Up to 80 men murdered, 30 cases unsolved
RICK FENELEY Dozens of killers are now walking free: Rick Feneley investigates the Sydney epidemic of gay-hate violence that no one noticed.
State of Origin
There's no hard feelings for GI in his real home
ANDREW WEBSTER Greg Inglis: traitor to his state or qualified Queenslander? Herald chief sports writer Andrew Webster went to Inglis' home town on the NSW North Coast to find out from those who know him best.
Guilt, innocence and the American way
NICK O'MALLEY It took a jury two-and-a-half hours to send Kirk Bloodsworth to the gas chamber - for a murder he did not commit. Now free, he fights to end the death penalty across America.
2001 Walkley Awards: Best magazine feature writing
Death surrounds her
Greg Bearup Her father brutally slain, her brother and her alleged former lover likely to die in jail... But Belinda Van Krevel seems remarkably unfazed by the three killings that left her family in tatters. Greg Bearup enters a murky world of lost innocence and casual violence.
August 2002
When the spider bites
Philip Cornford Samantha Knight's killer was convicted because of one woman's grim determination. Philip Cornford tells of her dogged quest to win justice for a dead child.
City prepares to farewell the rail project that never gathered steam
Damien Murphy Damien Murphy takes one last turn on the Sydney monorail before he consigns it, happily, to history.
August 1996
A bent for writing
Janet Hawley With the publication of his autobiography, Jeffrey Smart explains why he finally decided to come out of the closet at 75.
JUNE 2013
Revealed: a lost city and a holy temple
LINDSAY MURDOCH A mist-covered mountain in Cambodia gives up its treasure.
JUNE 2013
Mackay knew he was a target
TONY WRIGHT In July 1977, two days before he was assassinated, his body spirited into a 36-year mystery, Mackay told me his blood had 'run cold' when he discovered that his involvement in what was then Australia's biggest drug bust had been exposed.
JUNE 2013
Client list sparks a legal war between Keddies and Firths
Harriet Alexander Former Keddies partners are engaged in a lawyers' game of tag-and-chase with Stephen Firth, the solicitor who brought 120 overcharging cases against them, in a drama that has caught judges, counsel and clients in the crossfire.
JUNE 2013
China inside out
JOHN GARNAUT His time as correspondent at an end, John Garnaut reflects on what he has learnt and what is still to be learnt about the Middle Kingdom.
JUNE 2013
100 days of grey
PETER HARTCHER Opinion As much as our leaders would like the next 100 days to be about their policies, it will be about them - and their lack of political leadership, writes political editor Peter Hartcher.
MAY 1999
Generation Exodus
Jon Marsh After the June 4, 1989 massacre in Beijing, more than 43,000 Chinese people were allowed to settle in Australia. Ten years later, Jon Marsh tracked the impact of this change on their lives and on Sydney.
JUNE 1989
Bodies bear witness to China's greatest shame
Peter Ellingsen in Beijing In the early light of dawn, the half dozen pale ochre buses the people of west Beijing had used to shield themselves from the Army took on their true, pathetic form. With sunlight showing up their collapsed, bullet-punctured frames, they were empty, fragile, people carriers, nothing more.
Profit above all else: how CBA lost savings and hid its tracks
Adele Ferguson and Chris Vedelago It took nearly 16 months before the regulator was forced to act against serious flaws at Commonwealth Bank's financial planning unit.
MAY 2013
Gossip queen
Scoop by salacious scoop, Nene King drove Woman's Day into a fierce circulation battle with arch rival New Idea - now the subject of a new telemovie. But the "magazine wars" extracted a personal cost.
JUNE 2013
Is he a whistle blower or traitor?
NICK O'MALLEY Bradley Manning, the US soldier who gave WikiLeaks secret documents, finally faces court this week.
MARCH 2013
Alive as a dodo
NICKY PHILLIPS Bringing animals back from extinction is no longer science fiction. But the question is, should we do it?
MAY 2013
The girl with no face
Actress Isabelle Huppert emerged from the French New Wave to make a name for herself playing unusual - and sometimes violent - characters. It's a good background for her latest role on the Australian stage.
MAY 2013
Indecent obsession
BENJAMIN LAW The harrowing truth about sibling sexual abuse - and why women like Carmen Burnet are speaking out.
MAY 2013
The truth about Benghazi
PAUL MCGEOUGH The shelling of the US embassy in Libya is dividing opinion.
NOVEMBER 2012
The top of the world is melting
BEN CUBBY The Artic permafrost is melting, releasing vast amounts of greenhouse gases. The world now has to rethink how it tackles climate change.
MAY 2013
China gets into the business of making friends
JOHN GARNAUT The covert battle over Beijing's defence policy heats up.
MAY 2013
DIY terror
Deborah Snow and Nick Miller No one is safe. That's the message from this act of violence.
MAY 2012
A serious man
Tim Elliott Some say bookmaker Tom Waterhouse is too young, too rich and too lucky. Will his wager on online gambling pay off?
2012: Digital Dreamers series
Digital Dreamers: On the StartUp bus
Our 2012 Digital Dreamers series tracked aspiring Australian tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. It won Best Video Program at the 2013 Microsoft IT Journalism Awards in May. Episode 1 takes us inside the StartUp bus in Las Vegas, where aspiring entrepreneurs pitch against each other for venture capital dollars.
- In the series: The world's wildest tech gathering, where deals get done
- In the series: Malcolm Turnbull on how Australia can make the most of its burgeoning start-up tech scene
- In the series: Aussie female tech entrepreneurs on the place of women in the current internet revolution
- Full index: Digital Dreamers
Walkley Awards 2012: Best magazine feature
The world according to Bryce
Jane Cadzow "I'll take a 50-50 gamble on anything," Bryce Courtenay told Jane Cadzow in March 2012, when discussing the likelihood his cancer would return within two years. The 79-year-old author died on November 22.
2012 Walkley Awards: Best investigative reporting
Exposed: Obeids' secret harbour deal
Linton Besser, Kate McClymont The former ALP powerbroker Eddie Obeid hid his interests in a lucrative cafe strip.
2012 Walkley Awards: Best print news report
Thomson: new credit card claims
Kate McClymont The Labor MP Craig Thomson and the union leader Michael Williamson, who is on the ALP national executive, allegedly received secret commissions from a major supplier to their union.
2012 Walkley Awards: Best digital journalism
Sky's the limit for political gifts
Stuart Washington, Tom Allard, Conrad Walters and UTS The Israel lobby, Qantas and mining companies are leading the charge in lavishing federal politicians with all-expenses paid junkets and other gifts, a Herald investigation has found.
2010 Walkley Awards: Best print news report
Prayers, tear gas and terror
Paul McGeough After four days at sea, our correspondents witnessed the Israeli assault on the Gaza flotilla.
2010 Walkley Awards: Best online journalism
Multimedia: On tour with Julia Gillard
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Andrew Meares Chief photographer Andrew Meares documents Julia Gillard's 2010 election campaign with his iPhone polaroid-style commentary.
2010 Walkley Awards: Best scoop
ETS off the agenda until late next term
Lenore Taylor Opinion The Rudd government has shelved its emissions trading scheme for at least three years in a bid to defuse Tony Abbott's "great big new tax" attack in this year's election campaign.
2010 Walkley Awards: Best investigative journalism
The wrong stuff
Linton Besser The Department of Defence is spending millions of dollars on luxury items that appear to bear no relevance to its sworn role to defend the nation.
2010 Walkley Awards: Best sports journalism
Cap auditor probes the Storm
Adrian Proszenko The NRL is investigating Melbourne over alleged salary-cap breaches that occurred during their premiership triumph last year.
2009 Walkley Awards: Best scoop
Rio Tinto iron ore sales team arrested in China
Mathew Murphy and John Garnaut An Australian man is one of four Rio Tinto employees who have been arrested and detained by Chinese authorities, with the Rudd Government demanding Beijing provide "urgent consular access to him".
2007 Walkley Awards: Best newspaper feature
Dealing in the desire for death
James Button A Swiss clinic specialising in assisted suicides has been accused of being too hasty in helping some people die.
2006 Walkley Awards: Best use of the medium
Multimedia: The last living minutes of Sadaam's lawyer
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Paul McGeough, Matthew Absalom-Wong, Darren Connell and Kimberley Porteous These videos, acquired in Al-Sadr City, a slum quarters in Baghdad, are a chilling new insight into the Iraq conflict.
2006 Walkley Awards: Best use of the medium
Multimedia: September 11, five years on
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Paul McGeough, Matthew Absalom-Wong, Darren Connell and Kimberley Porteous In response to the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001, US-led military actions toppled regimes in Afghanistan and in Iraq. Now the US is struggling to rebuild these nations and democratise the Middle East while Osama bin Laden remains at large.
2006 Walkley Awards: Best newspaper feature writing
I was Russell Crowe's stooge
Jack Marx It was March 2005 when the Oscar-winning movie star called me. He had read an article I had written - something about how the celebrity magazines make up lies - and had tracked down my number. He wanted to meet over lunch. He asked me if I could be trusted.
2005 Walkley Awards: Best sports coverage
The little horse that could
Amanda Hooton He's got dicky knees, a weird gait and a lively temper, but Takeover Target, bought for a song, might just make his owner a squillion.
2004 Walkley Awards: Best magazine feature
The right thing
Jane Cadzow He comes across as a walking, talking ad for family values - a squeaky-clean pin-up boy for Christian conservatives. But in truth, Ross Cameron, member for one of Australia's most marginal Federal seats, is ashamed of himself. Jane Cadzow finds out why.
2004 Walkley Awards: Best coverage of indigenous affairs
Black land, white shoes
Debra Jopson and Gerard Ryle The land grants system is failing. Debra Jopson and Gerard Ryle reveal a case where millions of dollars were spent with nothing to show for it.
2004 Walkley Awards: Best investigative journalism
Bestseller's lies exposed
Malcolm Knox Her tragic story stole readers' hearts and triggered an international outcry. She became a best-selling author in the same league as J.K.Rowling and Michael Moore. She petitioned the UN personally, was published in 15 countries, and Australians voted her memoir into their favourite 100 books of all time. But Norma Khouri is a fake.
2004 Walkley Awards: Best coverage of sport
Inside the shooting gallery
Jacquelin Magnay Two months before phials of equine growth hormone were found in his room, banned cyclist Mark French allegedly told the Australian team coach of riders using the drug. Jacquelin Magnay traces the investigation into cycling's doping scandal, an inquiry that has raised more questions than it has answered.
2002 Walkley Awards: Gold Walkley and best investigative journalism
Secret Bulldog business
Roy Masters, Kate McClymont and Anne Davies A Herald investigation has found the Bulldogs breached the NRL's salary cap by more than $1.5 million over the past two years.
2002 Walkley Awards: Best newspaper feature writing
Nothing left to lose
Paul McGeough Their children have nothing to eat, their homes are little more than sheets of plastic stretched over the stony desert ground. Yet even this is preferable to the brutality and sadism of the regime these people are fleeing.
2002 Walkley Awards: Best newspaper feature writing
'The APC, with journalists and soldiers on top, was pelted with fire'
Paul McGeough Herald Correspondent Paul McGeough tellshow he hung on to an armoured personnel carrier in the midst of a Taliban ambush that killed three other reporters.
- In the series: Groundhog day on the stalled front line
- In the series: Nightmare tale in a town of plastic sheeting
- In the series: Rather quiet on the northern front
- In the series: Ragtag army creates a new headache
- In the series: Savage victory
- In the series: Kunduz heads for bloodbath as attitudes harden
- In the series: Give up or die, US tells Taliban
2001 Walkley Awards: Best print news report
Rich lawyers dodging income tax
Paul Barry A number of high-flying Sydney barristers are abusing the tax system. They repeatedly fail to meet tax demands, typically do not lodge returns, rack up debts of up to $2 million, and then seek shelter in bankruptcy, which wipes out their debts.
2000 Walkley Awards: Best social equity journalism
It's the $6bn free lunch
Ian Verrender and Steve Burrell Government handouts to companies are large, open-ended, and subject to little scrutiny. Ian Verrender and Steve Burrell lift the lid on corporate welfare in Australia.
2000 Walkley Awards: Best magazine feature writing
Their day in court
Richard Guilliatt Grief and anger, secrets and lies, lost love and ruined lives: after decades of struggle, the claims of the stolen generations are being heard at last. But can reconciliation and healing be won through battles in a court of law?
2000 Walkley Awards: Best coverage of the Asia-Pacific region
Time to pray, and run the militia gauntlet
LINDSAY MURDOCH Pat Burgess wipes away the tears. He doesn't want to make the life-or-death decision. The Australian political officer working for the United Nations has just been told that staff and their dependants, including Timorese, are evacuating from the besieged UN compound in Dili.
