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James DowlingScience and Health Reporter

James Dowling is a reporter for The Australian’s Sydney bureau. He previously worked as a cadet journalist writing for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and NewsWire, in addition to this masthead. As an intern at The Age he was nominated for a Quill award for News Reporting in Writing.

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Medical misconductNation

Dentist James Mina Hanna (right) leaves court with his legal team.

Dentist facing ban over failed drug tests, cocaine charges

After James Hanna was found by police with eleven bags of cocaine he failed to inform the Dental Council and went on to fail a number of drug tests.

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Top prosecutorPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. AUGUST 7, 2023: Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory Andrew Barr holds a press conference in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Rattenbury’s intervention backed by Chief Minister

The ACT government has stood by Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury after the territory’s acting DPP expressed anger at a ‘highly inappropriate’ intervention in his independence.

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Trans issuesNation

Andrew Amos is an academic psychiatrist and has written an academic paper challenging the evidence base of gender affirmative medicine. PIC: Peter Eve

Gender care model unethical: psychiatrist

Senior Australian psychiatrist Andrew Amos argues the gender-affirming model amounts to a denial of evidence that could run against the Hippocratic oath.

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new claimsNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos - Friday, 22 December, 2023:Bruce Lehrmann pictured leaving Federal Court Sydney. Rolling coverage of Bruce Lehrmann defamation case against Network 10 and Lisa Wilkinson. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Monique Harmer

Seven paid bill for Lehrmann’s Thai massage

A Seven employee reportedly used a company credit for massages for himself and Bruce Lehrmann in the lead-up to the program’s exclusive interview.

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Question TimeNation

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. MARCH 21, 2024: The family Lance Corporal Jack Fitzgibbon attend a condolence motion in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

MPs pay tribute to Fitzgibbon

Australia’s major party and defence leaders used Thursday’s Question Time to honour the life and sacrifice of Lance Corporal Jack Fitzgibbon.

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ExclusiveMedical

Liv Curtis was diagnosed with serous ovarian cancer in 2020

Charity bankrolls ovarian cancer vaccine research

Vaccines would tailor cancer treatment to an individual, with researchers appealing for governments to take the financial burden off charities in the sector.

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RoyalsWorld

Getty Images has identified elements of digital editing in this picture of the late Queen Elizabeth II and young royals.

Picture of Queen, young royals ‘doctored’: agency

Past photos taken by the Princess of Wales have been re-examined, with Getty Images claiming this 2022 picture was ‘digitally enhanced at the source’.

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Police investigatingNation

An electric vehicle crash at the Liverpool Westfield shopping centre in Sydney left two people in hospital on March 16, 2024. Picture: 9News PERMISSION GIVEN BY Tony Pham, FACEBOOK 0411 178179

Electric display car crashes in Sydney mall, injures two

A 14-year-old was inside the vehicle as it crashed into two shoppers at Liverpool Westfield in the city’s west.

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Major meetingPolitics

MARCH 16, 2024: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese touring Magill Estate with Don Farrell. Picture: Brenton Edwards

Wine tariffs gone ‘in days or weeks’: PM

Anthony Albanese says the move comes following an interim determination by the Chinese government and as our trade relationship with China is hoped to be put ‘back on track’.

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Robo-textsNews

EMBARGO FOR TWAM 16 MAR 2024. FEE MAY APPLY., Portrait of Jacqui Lambie, photographed in her office at Parliament House in Canberra. Rohan Thomson/TWAM Portrait of Jacqui Lambie, photographed in her office at Parliament House in Canberra.Photo by Rohan Thomson / Pew Pew Studio

‘New low’: Lambie pans Tas Libs over mock campaign site

A wave of disgruntled protestors targeted an innocent Liberal candidate on his private number after a bungled campaign against Jacqui Lambie.

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