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Breast implant patients given risky drug doses, review finds
Anna Patty and Kate Aubusson 10:54 PM Some patients undergoing breast implants at a prominent Australian cosmetic-surgery chain were given dangerously high doses of powerful drugs that knocked them out without their consent, an investigation reveals.
Minister promotes TAFE report involving company raided AFP
![Mr Barilaro said there will be pressure on TAFE to be more competitive in the vocational education market.
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Eryk Bagshaw 12:15 AM NSW Skills Minister John Barilaro is promoting a report highlighting the business results of a collapsed private college network whose headquarters were recently raided by the Australian Federal Police.
Money laundering fears over Bendigo Bank operations on Nauru
![Until last year Nauru had an entirely cash economy that used Australian dollars as the currency.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/j/u/4/r/x/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go9uor.png/1461065851345.jpg)
Daniel Flitton 9:37 PM Fears over money laundering and the risk of financing of terrorism has prompted calls for Bendigo Bank to abandon any dealings with the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru.
Asbestos victim helps lobby for funding
![Asbestos victim Serafina Salucci has been living with mesothelioma for nine years.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/a/c/i/w/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go9nki.png/1461065043294.jpg)
Emma Macdonald 9:24 PM Serafina was 7 when she helped her dad build a garage. Three decades later it is killing her.
Hopes Type 2 diabetes can be reversed by changing diet
![Allan Tutty was able to reverse his Type 2 diabetes with a special diet.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/a/c/j/7/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.goaccl.png/1461077701852.jpg)
Rony Caryn Rabin 9:20 PM New research has raised the tantalizing possibility that the condition can be remedied by changes in diet.
Public service bosses' election nightmare comes true
![Department Secretary Dennis Richardson is organising roadshows at Defence sites around Australia to use his influence to ...](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/p/4/f/n/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go9nf5.png/1461064259052.jpg)
Noel Towell 9:10 PM Departmental bosses "desperate" to settle workplace disputes before election called.
Scientists can make mice live longer. Now they want to do the same for you.
![The idea that time wears on the body in a predictable way seems obvious. But is it true?](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/9/g/z/q/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go9gz3.png/1461076260790.jpg)
David Brown 8:02 PM There’s a reason some people don’t look as old as they actually are.
Public service workplace war goes nuclear
![Unions representing the 1100 workers at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) are ...](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/k/b/j/a/8/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go9jh5.png/1461059479150.jpg)
Noel Towell 7:51 PM The workplace unrest sweeping the federal public sector has spread to Australia's nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney.
Canberra hearing for people suffering Lyme disease
![Marie Huttley-Jackson and daughter Genavieve, 8, who has been diagnosed with Lyme disease.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/o/0/7/h/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go9rml.png/1461059453355.jpg)
Ross Peake 11:45 PM A committee hearing at Parliament House on Wednesday could be the final chance for people suffering Lyme disease to plead for help. The inquiry will be curtailed by the early election but the committee may have time to write an interim report.
Social stresses of modern life can make you older than your years
![Illustration: Michael Mucci](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/9/g/x/t/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go9gx1.png/1461059297071.jpg)
David Brown 7:48 PM Scientists are studying this ‘biological weathering.’
'One fail, all fail': Canberra family split by immigration decision
![Clive and Jacqui Ingram and their daughter Caitlin are from South Africa and have been living in Australia since 2011.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/8/z/j/u/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go7nyb.png/1461048446874.jpg)
David Ellery 4:47 PM 18-year-old Canberran left stranded in South Africa by decision to revoke his family's visas.
Election plan puts public servants in delicate position
![Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during question time in Canberra on Tuesday.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/9/x/3/h/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go9rn8.png/1461049433573.jpg)
Henry Belot 4:36 PM APS must still assist with the budget, despite looming campaign.
Keeping track of a new AFL player statistic
![Jeff White during his playing days. He now runs a social media consultancy and has invented portable goal posts.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/9/4/q/s/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go8u5p.png/1461053398029.jpg)
Lucy Battersby 3:14 PM While many football fans and commentators get obsessed by the injuries, scandals and romances of AFL players, one man is more interested in what kind of small businesses players are launching or supporting.
Diplomats clock up incredible number of unpaid fines
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Noel Towell 12:31 PM Canberra's diplomats have clocked up more than $500k in traffic fines.
'Pretty shocking': Coral bleaching hits Sydney
![HARBOUR SYD AFR PHOTO BY ROB HOMER --- afrphotos.com.au --- sydney harbour at sunset --- generic sydney , skyline , ...](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/8/z/b/l/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go8qex.png/1460983867992.jpg)
Peter Hannam The giant coral bleaching event that is now devastating wide swaths of the Great Barrier Reef has now extended all the way south to Sydney Harbour, researchers say.
Sydney tow truck driver faces life in Fijian jail
![Sydney tow truck driver Joseph Abourizk, 30, who is facing a drug charge in Fiji.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/9/d/p/i/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go89t8.png/1460983484012.jpg)
Emma Partridge A Sydney tow truck driver is facing life imprisonment in Fiji after what he claims was a dream holiday gone terribly wrong.
Uni tutor resigns after calling students 'pigs'
![Corporate finance tutor Wu Wei has resigned.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/6/t/j/v/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go93x6.png/1460976566392.jpg)
Philip Wen, Eryk Bagshaw and Kate Aubusson The social media posts under a pseudonym went viral, causing widespread outrage.
Australia's top public servant warns of 'lethal mix of arrogance and ignorance'
![Dr Martin Parkinson, secretary of the Department of the Treasury, has issued a warning to public servants.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/1/m/x/s/0/8/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go8ytk.png/1460967624451.jpg)
Henry Belot A wholesale cultural change is needed within government departments if they are to learn from their mistakes, warns Australia's most senior public servant.
Gay minorities speak out against racists slurs on Grindr
![University student Dustin Mangatjay McGregor.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/8/z/m/x/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go8zov.png/1461025477125.jpg)
Beau Donelly An Aboriginal man has published screenshots of racist slurs he was subjected to on a gay dating app to draw attention to discrimination in the gay community.
Terrorism strikes home
![Scene of the explosion outside the Sari Club in Kuta in 2002.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/9/6/n/a/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go96qi.png/1460962234820.jpg)
Matthew Moore, in Kuta, and Mark Riley The Sydney Morning Herald's front page report following the terrorist bombings in Bali in 2002.
From the sublime to the stupendous
![Cauldron being lit at the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Olympics.
Picture By VINCE CALIGIURI](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/9/5/9/g/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go95dz.png/1460961311628.jpg)
John Huxley Stand proud, the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics was a masterpiece, wrote John Huxley.
Bush picks up father's quest for New World Order
!["Freedom itself has been attacked this morning by a faceless coward." President Bush addresses the nation in 2001](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/9/3/l/d/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go93nl.png/1460959093686.jpg)
Gay Alcorn, Washington correspondent in 2001 When terrorists flew passenger planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001, it steered the US onto a course in international affairs that is still being played out 15 years later.
Reflections on nation building
![Australia Day celebrations on Sydney Harbour in 1988.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/9/2/d/a/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go92ed.png/1460957491763.jpg)
When the Sydney Morning Herald recorded Australia's bicentenary in 1988, it was able to draw on its own archives to commemorate. and put into perspective, the occasion.
Flight from the moon begins
![Astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. posing for a photograph beside the U.S. flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo ...](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/9/1/k/0/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go91qh.png/1460956726551.jpg)
Peter Michelmore at Mission Control, Houston The Sydney Morning Herald's front page report from 1969 as the first men on the moon head back to earth.
Sydney cheers the Queen
![Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip during the 1954 Royal Tour of Australia.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/9/0/z/r/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go90y8.png/1460955790581.jpg)
This article first appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on February 4, 1954
Match the front page story with the year
![Front Page of The Sydney Morning Herald from December 28 2004](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/4/e/l/d/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go8zz3.png/1460954633486.jpg)
Stephen Samuelson The Sydney Morning Herald has covered the major stories that have shaped Australia and the world. Can you match the headline with the year.
Cruel twist: Grant Hackett's Rio plan appears sunk by Nipplegate
![Nipplegate could spell the end of Grant Hackett's Rio commentary dream.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/h/2/0/9/m/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go8uoe.png/1461024730820.jpg)
Karl Quinn Claims that Grant Hackett twisted a passenger's nipples during a flight may have put an end to his hopes of joining Seven's Olympics commentary team.
One in five Australians believes people with anxiety 'put it on'
![Guy Pearce knows anxiety can affect anyone, regardless of their age, their employment or where they live.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/3/i/c/i/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go7aw9.png/1461039759417.jpg)
Eryk Bagshaw Research shows more than 10 per cent of Australians aged between 30 and 34 believe people with anxiety are untrustworthy.
Azerbaijani embassy denies black market trade in booze and cigarettes
![Bargain wine bottles.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/1/m/s/6/i/7/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go8dde.png/1460924317800.jpg)
Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie The 2014 end of year party at the Azerbaijan embassy in Canberra must have been epic if its official requests to import duty-free booze and cigarettes were any guide.
Trying to get fit? Bad gums may be your undoing
![Why is a dentist in a gym? Professor Jorg Eberhard says gum disease could erase the benefits of sport.](/web/20160419154652im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/6/4/b/o/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.go5vti.png/1460934250124.jpg)
Julie Power Bad gums? They're very likely shortening your lifespan, and even undermining sport and exercise that should extend your life, says a world oral health expert.