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Natalie O’Brien is a multi-award winning career journalist who has worked around Australia covering some of the country’s biggest stories from government coverups to sex trafficking, immigration, the environment, police, courts and crime. She was the first Investigations Editor appointed on The Australian Newspaper and was awarded a highly commended award in the Walkley Awards for her story Children Overboard Didn’t Happen. Contact her on natalie.obrien@news.com.au

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Named and shamed: Corrupt customs, border staff

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Biggest killer of young people revealed

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Crime in Focus

Unusual way cops caught a killer

Babis Anagnostopoulos had claimed that his wife was killed by burglars during a home invasion – but police found otherwise. SEE HOW

National

Anger as AFP email scam backfires

An email to thousands of police officers was not what it appeared to be – leaving the AFP humiliated and vowing to change.

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Shock photos reveal Aussie gangsters’ new ghost guns

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Behind the Scenes

Explained: Where Australia’s Italian mafia clans are

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Mice in restraining devices attached to a “smoking tower”. Source: Humane Research Australia. Picture: Humane Research Australia

Sick photo of mice being smoked to death

This is the photo that shows how animals are restrained and used in “cruel” experiments, which has been sent to a parliamentary inquiry. WARNING: Graphic content

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NSW Government MPs come together for Dogs in Politics Day, a joint venture to raise awareness for all dogs still looking for a home and to encourage people looking to adopt not shop and save a life. Animal Justice Party MP Emma Hurst pictured with Mia the pug in the Domain. Picture: Toby Zerna

100-plus animals die from smoking tests as uni exposed

Two Australian research facilities have been accused of conducting “cruel” and deadly experiments which have led to the suffocation of more than 100 animals. WARNING: Graphic.

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animals rescused after being experimatned on

Pets sold online for horrific secret experiments

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National

UNDATED : Kathleen Folbigg with baby Sarah in undated copy photo, died 30/08/93 after evidently being smothered by Kathleen, who has now been found guilty of murdering her & three other siblings over ten year period at Supreme Court, Darlinghurst in Sydney on 21/05/03.NSW / Crime / Murder / Victim

Folbigg’s husband: ‘He is the victim’

Craig Folbigg is “dismayed and devastated” a new inquiry will once again rake over the deaths of his four children at the hands of his former wife, Kathleen.

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