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Dozens of former Australian Rules footballers diagnosed with CTE
Australian Rules footballers who never played in the game's premier league are being diagnosed with CTE, revealing that the brain trauma crisis striking all levels of the game.
Topic:Sports injuries
Tue 30 Jun 2026 at 7:43am
They didn't know what footy was doing to their boy. 'Now it's too late'
A talent and a team player, Nick Lowden excelled at Aussie Rules. But the knocks, bumps, hits and collisions were adding up.
Topic:AFL
Mon 29 Jun 2026 at 8:47am
Victoria ended native forest logging. So where are these trees coming from?
Four Corners follows the logs, and the money, to uncover how efforts to end logging have shifted the timber trade across state borders.
Topic:Forestry, Logging and Timber Industry
Mon 22 Jun 2026 at 2:12pm
Anthropic has its eyes on Australia and a large slice of its electricity output
The world's biggest tech titans see Australia as a promising investment opportunity for their AI ambitions, but some fear the federal government's regulatory retreat could lead to harm.
Topic:AI
Mon 8 Jun 2026 at 10:03am
This detective was told his colleagues were attacked. Then he saw the footage
As the footballer, shirt torn, face bloodied and with a concussion, paced his police cell, a veteran detective's phone started to ring.
Topic:Police
Tue 2 Jun 2026 at 10:59am
Police unlawfully arrested this man, broke his ribs, then charged him with assault
After fracturing about a dozen of a man's ribs and puncturing his lung, police officers discussed how to explain what happened to him.
Topic:Police
Mon 1 Jun 2026 at 11:51am
Police beat a woman in a Sydney street. Their own camera captured their cruelty
The family of a woman brutally assaulted by police in Sydney has fought to have body-worn camera vision released, in the hope officers will be better trained in responding to acute mental health situations.
Topic:Police
Sun 31 May 2026 at 5:06am
Iron ore processing project dumped by BHP for not being profitable enough
Internal BHP documents reveal how the mining giant planned to set up an iron ore processing facility in the Pilbara to cut carbon emissions before backing away from it entirely.
Topic:Climate Change
Tue 26 May 2026 at 3:07pm
Leaked documents reveal how far BHP really is from net zero goals
The mining giant's delay in the rollout of renewable energy and a fleet of electric trucks and trains in the Pilbara has raised doubts inside the company about it meeting its ambitious climate goal.
Topic:Mining and Metals Industry
Tue 26 May 2026 at 8:14am
Mining giant BHP's plan to go green was 'urgent', until it wasn't
Hundreds of pages of internal BHP documents reveal how the company sold itself as a climate leader while internally finding reasons to put off action in the Pilbara.
Topic:Mining and Metals Industry
Mon 25 May 2026 at 8:30pm