Privilege threatens Sofronoff challenge to Integrity Commission findings
The ACT government has argued Walter Sofronoff KC’s Federal Court challenge should be dropped, as he rebuts a report accusing him of corrupt conduct.
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NSW Liberal Party still tied to ‘donation laundering’ firm
A corporate appendage of the NSW Liberal Party under legal threat from the branch’s own candidates was used to obscure a supposedly defunct and corrupt fundraising vehicle.
Campaign to tackle prostate cancer, Australia’s ‘most expensive cancer’
In revealing his prostate cancer diagnosis, a decorated local politician is pleading for nationwide tracking for the most expensive and most commonly diagnosed cancer form.
‘Unanswerable’: Ex-newsreader attacks racial discrimination claim
Former SBS newsreader Mary Kostakidis hopes to cut to ribbons allegations of racial discrimination based on a social media post stating Israel was ‘getting some of its own medicine’.
Party ‘can’t be sued’ for election debacle
Fighting allegations of negligence and maladministration, senior Liberals have argued the NSW Liberal Party cannot be called before the courts.
Polio outbreak raises alarm in Papua New Guinea
Isolated cases of polio in Papua New Guinea have health authorities on alert as they scramble to vaccinate against the virus.
‘Hit feds up for health care boost’: report calls for overhaul as toxic workplace disputes laid bare
NSW must lobby for a better federal hospital funding deal, an independent report prompted by a toxic dispute between medical workers and hospital administrators has recommended.
‘Gruesome symptoms’: Study offers hope for chronic coeliacs
Coeliac disease cases defying scientific explanation or treatment have been demystified using an adapted form of cancer science, changing the prospects for patients.
Mammoth OCD study to assist treatment
Scientists understand for the first time which genes and brain regions are linked to OCD, after a watershed study put millions of brains under the microscope.
Jones charges ‘lack scrutiny’: lawyer
Alan Jones has been granted a delay on a trial set to be the fight of his life, excoriating his ‘blatantly contradictory’ accusers and asking prosecutors to think twice about their case against him.
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