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How To Poison a Planet

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Marina Suzuki, who is the lead author of the study and a PhD candidate at UQ’s Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences.

Australia-first study finds ‘forever chemicals’ in human brain tissue

The study is the first to “definitively demonstrate” the chemicals’ presence in the brain, raising questions about how they got there and the potential health risks.

  • Fleur Connick

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A woman in the Blue Mountains has found high levels of PFAS in her blood after the region’s drinking water supply was contaminated.

She was dogged by health issues. Then this Sydney woman found cancer chemicals in her blood

The woman long feared something in her house was poisoning her. Her blood test was an “aha” moment.

  • Carrie Fellner
There was friction within the government over a decision to stop Water Minister Rose Jackson (centre) from participating in a radio interview with ABC presenter Simon Marnie (left) and contamination campaigner Jon Dee (right).

Spin doctor feared on-air ‘ambush’ over cancer chemicals in drinking water

New emails reveal friction behind the scenes after the water minister and government agencies declined an interview about contaminated tap water supplies.

  • Carrie Fellner
University of Sydney Professor Stuart Khan says consumer goods should be tested for PFAS residues.

Your home is full of these chemicals. Your tap water provider wants them banned

The nation’s drinking water providers have called on Australia to ban chemicals found in around 900 household products.

  • Carrie Fellner
Authorities have been accused of failing to do enough to make visitors to Jervis Bay aware of cancer-causing contaminants.

Cancer-causing chemicals a ‘dirty little secret’ in tourist hotspot

Authorities have been accused of encouraging visitors to a NSW tourist hotspot without doing enough to warn them about toxic contamination in the region.

  • Carrie Fellner
Fisherman Jack Martin at Tower Beach.

Fresh tests ordered for cancer-causing chemicals at popular Sydney beach

The Botany Bay waters where young families swim and fishermen cast their lines have not been tested since 2018. That’s about to change.

  • Alexandra Smith and Cindy Yin
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A beach next to Sydney Airport’s main runway has been closed to swimming due to PFAS

This Sydney beach is closed over cancer-causing chemicals. Many people are missing the signs

Families with young children continue to splash in the water, despite fears for their health.

  • Carrie Fellner
Seqwater Mount Crosby EastBank.

How did cancer-causing ‘forever chemicals’ contaminate Brisbane water?

Brisbane Times revealed last month known carcinogen PFOA had been identified in Brisbane water at among the highest levels in the country.

  • William Davis
Children playing in toxic firefighting foam in the backstreets of Kellyville, circa 2001.

Fears for schools, daycares: The 500 sites yet to be tested for forever chemicals

It could take 50 years to investigate all the potentially contaminated sites across Sydney and the rest of NSW, an inquiry has heard.

  • Carrie Fellner
A new mobile water filtration plant will be installed at Katoomba to remove cancer-linked PFAS contaminants from tap water supplies.

‘This is a great win’: Forever chemicals to be filtered from tap water

A mobile filtration plant will clean up tap-water supplies tainted by a plume of cancer-linked “forever chemicals” in the Blue Mountains.

  • Carrie Fellner

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