Caroline Overington

Caroline Overington has twice won Australia’s most prestigious award for journalism, the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism; she has also won the Sir Keith Murdoch award for Journalistic Excellence; and the richest prize for business writing, the Blake Dawson Prize. She writes thrillers for HarperCollins, and she’s the author of Last Woman Hanged, which won the Davitt Award for True Crime Writing.

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The Nation

DJs legal threat on ‘sexualising’ kids claim

DAVID Jones has begun legal action against a feminist academic who this week accused major retailers of “sexualising” children in their advertising.

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The Nation

Giving children a voice takes conflict out of divorce

DIVORCING parents often try to keep the children out of the conflict. New research shows it may be the worst thing they can do.

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The Nation

Retailers’ fury at ‘corporate pedophile’ tag

MAJOR retailers and publishers have reacted furiously to a new report that claims they are engaged in “corporate pedophilia” by using suggestive photographs of children in their advertising.

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The Nation

AWB joked about cash for killings

AWB sent millions of dollars in foreign currency to Saddam Hussein so he could build concrete bunkers, which AWB executives speculated might be used by the regime to bury Kurds.

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The Nation

Foster parents forced into Russian roulette

ON an otherwise normal Thursday night last May, an Adelaide social worker marched into Kay Hackett’s home, put a foster baby down on the floor, and started unpacking the baby’s things.

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The Nation

AWB tricked the UN: Federal Court judge

AWB executives are almost certain to face criminal charges after the Federal Court ruled the Australian wheat exporter had “deliberately and dishonestly” conspired to defraud the UN.

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