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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.
- Carrie Fellner
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Secret government papers disappeared decades ago. They turned up in a dusty corner of parliament
Like a scene from The Office, highly secret cabinet documents were forgotten and left to collect dust in safes inside one the country’s most important departments.
- Shane Wright and Olivia Ireland
Albanese wants ex-spy chief to find out if missing 2003 Iraq war papers were a cover-up
Slamming the discovery of the extra documents just before Christmas, the prime minister said there was no reason why the documents should not be made public.
- Matthew Knott, Olivia Ireland and Shane Wright
The ‘once-only’ opportunity to expand Australia’s size by almost 50 per cent
Cabinet documents reveal the Howard government moved quickly to lock in a claim over huge areas of the seabed across the Pacific, Indian and Southern oceans, including key areas off Australia’s Antarctic territory.
- Shane Wright
Why John Howard intervened to kill the emissions trading scheme his cabinet wanted
Cabinet documents reveal the Howard government went close to supporting a carbon price in 2003. They also show why it was killed off.
- Shane Wright
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- Pollution
Defence was warned about forever chemicals. They kept it quiet for three decades
Documents show Defence took steps to protect its workers from toxic chemicals while tens of thousands of Australians were exposed.
- Carrie Fellner
Australia to declassify long-secret files on Malaysian plane tragedy
Malaysian politicians, including a state minister, were killed when an Australian-made aircraft went down in 1976, fuelling secrecy and conspiracy theories.
- Chris Barrett
ABC archive staff redundancies won’t risk local content, managing director says
The planned redundancies are part of the ABC’s digitisation of much of its audio and video collection and the rollout of systems that reporters and producers will use to source their own archival material.
- Angus Thompson
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Veteran Liberal MP calls for bipartisan support of National Archives
Tony Smith, in one of his last addresses, has called on politicians to unite in supporting ongoing funding for the National Archives.
- Shane Wright and Katina Curtis
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National Archives need support to preserve our unique history
The archives are a national treasure that contain material that is integral to an accurate understanding of our history as a nation.
- John Howard
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