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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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
David Brown 7:48 PM Scientists are studying this ‘biological weathering.’
'One fail, all fail': Canberra family split by immigration decision
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
Henry Belot 4:36 PM APS must still assist with the budget, despite looming campaign.
Keeping track of a new AFL player statistic
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
Noel Towell 12:31 PM Canberra's diplomats have clocked up more than $500k in traffic fines.
'Pretty shocking': Coral bleaching hits Sydney
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
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'
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'
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This article first appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on February 4, 1954
Match the front page story with the year
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
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'
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
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
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.
