Investigative articles from Australia and abroad
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Asbestos and Other Killers (4)
A selection of articles on the dangers of asbestos, corporate cover-up, and tobacco smoking.
View items...Japan Unlimited (48)
Articles on Japan written in the mid-1990s, ranging from the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subways to the Kobe earthquake, from the preservation of tattoed human hides to the fight to save the whales.
View items...Medical Mayhem (9)
A fake cure for cancer that kills kids, Japan's exiled lepers, the grim legacy of Minamata, defective artificial heart valves and much more.
View items...Miscellany (12)
Stories that don't fit into the above categories : a farewell to Alistair Cook, Byron Bay, troubles at Opera Australia, tracking down a missing Japanese dad, Alan Gould, unlikely author.
View items...Scams and Scoundrels (52)
Great corporate scams of the last 20 years ranging from Rene Rivkin and the mysterious death of a model to a racket in growing truffles, from the collapse of Australia's biggest insurance company to internet gambling, a $60 million sting on a Swiss bank and a child-sex coverup on a remote Pacific island.
View items...The Near Abroad (12)
A visit to North Korea's Gulag, the fight to save the endangered white tiger in Siberia, and a week in the Cold War's last frontier, the remote Kurile Islands.
View items...Travel and Leisure (19)
A $639 lunch in Paris, a dip in an onsen in the Japan Alps, Bali before the bombing, the martyrs of the Aran Islands, dining on deadly fugu fish, breaking the bank at a Russian casino, and a museum dedicated to internal parasites.
View items...The War (10)
The 50th anniversary of the end of World War II in Japan, the legacy of Hiroshima, the massacres on Okinawa, and an interview with a kamikaze pilot.
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