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Sarah Napthali spent a year investigating the effects of psychadelics.

‘I’m just a seeker’: The Sydney mum who spent a year sampling psychedelics

Sarah Napthali lowers her voice over lunch when our conversation veers to the names of the drugs she used: LSD, MDMA, ketamine, DMT, bufo (toad poison) and the rest.

  • Jordan Baker

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Jennifer Robinson at Melbourne restaurant Farmer’s Daughters.

The international lawyer who specialises in breaking the silence

Human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson has been at the heart of battles over press freedom and gender violence. She is sure of one thing: change is needed.

  • Cassidy Knowlton

Trump says tariffs will make America rich again. Is he right?

The US president is famously a fan of tariffs. Here’s how they work – and what his latest ones could mean for the world.

  • Jackson Graham and Angus Holland
Steve Blore was the pin-up boy for Climate Friendly. Until the rules changed.

‘Parasites’, ‘cowboys’: The carbon companies dividing rural Australia

Carbon developers descended on rural Australia 10 years ago promising big money and an easy fix to complex problems. Today, farmers are crying foul.

  • Charlotte Grieve and Michael Bachelard
The Star casino in Sydney.

High-flyers to face court in blockbuster hearing as Star casino faces collapse

Star Entertainment might not survive the month and, with exquisite timing, a who’s who of Australia’s corporate elite is about to go on trial over their alleged roles in the disaster.

  • Colin Kruger
Rory Marples in Gome in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

‘On the streets I once walked dead bodies lay prostrate and forgotten’

I’m heartbroken by the violence that erupted in the vibrant city where I treated patients only last year.

  • Dr Rory Marples
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Police in inspect the van in which Jason Moran and Pasquale Barbaro were shot in Pascoe Vale in June 2003.

Ten underworld hits that shook Melbourne

The slaying of Sam “The Punisher” Abdulrahim is the latest in a long list of killings that are as Melbourne as laneway graffiti.

  • John Silvester
Atlassian executive Sonia Parandekar at the firm’s head office in Sydney. Her travel program epitomises the growing links between Australia and south India.

Meet Sonia: The fly-in, fly-out tech exec who travels to Sydney from Asia’s Silicon Valley

Our commercial and cultural links with India’s “dynamic south” are on the up.

  • Matt Wade
Margaret Fink AO, producer and originating member of the Sydney Push dining at Otto restaurant in Woolloomooloo, NSW. December 4, 2024. Photo: Kate Geraghty

Before Margaret Fink would do lunch with me, I had to audition

You need to bring your A-game when you dine with the Sydney movie producer whose extravagant dinner parties are legendary.

  • Michael Koziol
Forested country in the Canadian Plantation, near the Ballarat suburb of Mount Clear, where runner and mother of three, Samantha Murphy (inset), went missing on February 4 last year.

A year since Samantha Murphy vanished, Ballarat’s pain endures

“It’s not knowing where she is which is the hardest.” Samantha Murphy’s community is still in shock – and women are on edge.

  • Wendy Tuohy and Melissa Cunningham

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