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The disappearing words exposing 3M’s decades of deception over cancer link
The explosive document delivered a “holy shit” moment to lawyers fighting the Wall Street giant, showing the company had known for decades about the dangers of its forever chemicals.
- by Carrie Fellner
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As kids they splashed in the bubbles. Then these sisters got the same one-in-a-million tumour
There are burning questions about the health effects of the “forever chemicals” that are in us all.
- by Carrie Fellner
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Crime
Two dead, another in a serious condition following three NSW stabbings in 24 hours
A 16-year-old boy and a man in his 20s have died and a third man has been injured in unrelated stabbing incidents as a wave of knife crime continues across NSW.
- by Carrie Fellner
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From coffee cups to smartphones: How toxic chemicals crept into every part of your daily life
They keep smudges off your mobile and make your frying pans non-stick. But forever chemicals are linked to cancer, lurking in your blood and nearly every corner of your home.
- by Carrie Fellner and The Visual Stories Team
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High school
Parent’s anger over child joining school prayer group without consent
A Muslim community leader has questioned whether NSW public high schools are doing enough to guard against extremism among students.
- by Carrie Fellner and Lucy Carroll
The shocking attack on a ‘TikTok Bishop’ and eruption of a febrile community
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was preaching to a small congregation, but thousands were tuning in via a livestream. Within minutes, they were arriving by the carload.
- by Carrie Fellner, Harriet Alexander and Sally Rawsthorne
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Water
Australian drinking water now allows a carcinogen at 140 times the US rate
Twenty-year-old Amara Strande’s deathbed crusade pushed the US to slash the levels of cancer-linked forever chemicals considered safe in drinking water.
- by Carrie Fellner
Previously unseen draft of Brittany Higgins’ book describes debauchery as like the ‘Wolf of Wall Street’
Hedonistic parties feature in a previously unseen draft of a memoir by Higgins that has been brought to light in a reopened defamation lawsuit.
- by Carrie Fellner
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Pollution
This factory contaminated the whole world. And you helped pay for it
Most Australians can expect to find forever chemicals – also known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFAS) – in their blood.
- by Carrie Fellner
A singer withdrew $700 in Katoomba’s main street. Next, her body washed up in a local dam
A three-kilometre journey holds the key to the 2018 death of Cecilia Devine in the Blue Mountains. The case has left police mystified.
- by Carrie Fellner
Education expert tapped to lead Cranbrook investigation
Dr Amanda Bell has an impeccable resume in women’s education, including stints at Kambala, Queenwood, Sydney University and Brisbane Girls Grammar School.
- by Carrie Fellner