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The cosmetic injectables industry has boomed.

Cosmetic crackdown: End looms for speedy Botox scripts, influencer freebies banned

New rules for injectables target quick telehealth consults, the role of influencers and nurse training, in an attempt to ensure patient safety comes before profit.

  • Clay Lucas and Henrietta Cook

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One of the exhibits in the Titanic The Artefact Exhibition at Melbourne Museum.

No job ads, no interviews: Museum’s Titanic hiring spree triggers overhaul

Faced with a visitor surge, Melbourne Museum cut corners on recruitment that prompted investigations from the state’s corruption watchdogs.

  • Clay Lucas
The former Banditos bikie Seargent at Arms and boxer Johnny ‘Two Guns’ Walker.

‘Got to stand your ground’: Ex-bikie blasts former CFMEU bosses

As the CFMEU’s bikie enforcer scheme unravelled, Jonny “Two Guns” Walker took aim at investigative journalist Nick McKenzie, calling him a “dog”. Now, Walker sits down with McKenzie and reveals who he thinks is really to blame.

  • Nick McKenzie
A special forces soldier on the ground in Afghanistan.

War crimes investigator launches raids in major escalation

The elite anti-war crimes agency probing Ben Roberts-Smith and other ex-SAS soldiers has conducted raids in Perth.

  • Chris Masters and Nick McKenzie
Former CFMEU NSW assistant secretary Michael Greenfield (right) and secretary Darren Greenfield (left, obscured) at union headquarters with an employer they received $5000 bribes from.

‘Let’s make some money together’: Inside the CFMEU’s bribery scandal

Sometimes a foot was tapped, other times it was a little kick – either way, the cash was passed under the table to the union boss.

  • David Marin-Guzman and Nick McKenzie
Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) crews at the offices of El Dorado on Tuesday.

Comancheros called out for blaze of construction site firebombings

The feared bikie gang is linked to a spate of arsons roiling the building industry in Victoria amid calls for greater government and police action.

  • Nick McKenzie and Daniella White
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Mel Jefferies is suing her doctors.

As Mel’s gender ‘ricocheted’, she went under a surgeon’s knife

A young woman is suing the doctors who performed her gender treatment, claiming she could not have given informed consent.

  • Michael Bachelard
CFMEU national secretary Zach Smith.

‘Time for tough decisions’: CFMEU boss Zach Smith steps down from national leadership

The leader of the embattled construction union told a meeting on Thursday that he would be focusing on Victoria.

  • Kieran Rooney
Ben Roberts-Smith (left) with a former colleague drinking from the prosthetic leg of a dead Afghan man in 2012.

Investigators probe Ben Roberts-Smith over more murders and video drinking from dead man’s prosthetic limb

A secretive and powerful investigation into the disgraced soldier has uncovered damning fresh evidence as well as video of him drinking from a prosthetic leg, which he denied under oath.

  • Nick McKenzie
A piling rig at a site attacked over the weekend.

Directors’ homes, government sites targeted in spate of construction firebombings

Building rigs worth up to $2 million are going up in flames as underworld players try to control a sector supposedly being cleaned up by state and federal governments.

  • Nick McKenzie and Chris Vedelago

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