Multi-award winner, investigative journalist and business columnist with the ABC.

The Pain Factory

More than three million Australians are living with chronic pain, and it's become a breeding ground for exploitation. We expose the ugly side of medicine with patients in worse pain after having surgery and lives put at risk.

Latest Work

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Investment cowboys

The disgraced financial adviser tells of how he extracted hundreds of thousands of dollars from dozens of investors all while he made fat - and illegal - commissions that allowed his family to live the high life. Then he turned on them, too.

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The dust of death

The dust from cutting engineered stone for Australian kitchens and bathrooms is killing our tradies.

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Medicare rorts

Billions of dollars are being rorted from Medicare each year, including by billing dead people and falsifying patient records to boost profits.

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Cosmetic Cowboys

The cosmetic surgery trilogy is a three part investigative that uncovered barbaric and illegal procedures in Australia's cosmetic surgery industry, which is worth $1.4 billion and performs an estimated 500,000 surgeries a year. The investigation revealed that doctors without surgical training can earn millions by claiming to be cosmetic surgeons. The report studied how surgeons sell themselves on social media, sometimes by breaking the rules or editing photos, and obtained damning internal data showing poor hygiene and safety practices, and dangerous surgeries.

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