Kate Aubusson
Kate Aubusson is Health Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
- Investigation
- Medical misogyny
Penny was told her agonising pain was just ovulation. The next day, she was begging to die
The case is one of more than 400 accounts submitted to this masthead’s medical misogyny investigation in which women and girls had their pain dismissed, minimised or declared imaginary.
- Aisha Dow and Kate Aubusson
Latest
The common but deadly virus most pregnant women have never heard of
Pregnant women with young children are at high risk of infection. There are three simple things that can reduce the risk in unborn babies.
- Kate Aubusson
- Updated
- Sharks
‘It just turned into havoc’: Woman in critical condition after shark attack at Coogee Beach
Witnesses have described the terrifying scene when a woman was bitten by a three-metre shark at the popular eastern suburbs beach.
- Julie Power, Jessica McSweeney, Kate Aubusson and Rachel Rasker
‘I couldn’t fight off the shark’: The hero paddleboarder who rescued Coogee attack victim
Charlie Verco paddled furiously to help when he saw a 35-year-old woman being mauled by a white shark at Coogee Beach.
- Kate Aubusson
- Updated
- Sydney emergency
‘Rock any mother to the core’: Bodies of girl, father found in Parramatta River
The bodies of a man and his young daughter have been found after a boat was seen drifting in the Parramatta River in Sydney’s inner west.
- Kate Aubusson
Chilling footage shows shark moments after Coogee Beach attack
A three-metre shark swims slowly across the bay moments after a woman was pulled from the water with severe injuries.
- Kate Aubusson
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
What happened to Gus? Parents fight for answers over son’s death days after hospital discharge
Gus was the golden boy of his northern beaches community. Police told his father that his death was totally preventable.
- Kate Aubusson
‘Did she look like me?’ How Lyndsay found the right words after her daughter died
Families grieving for lost babies too often move on rather than seek help.
- Kate Aubusson
‘Why are we here?’ Rare truce for warring doctors at Supreme Court hearing
In a rare truce, the warring factions of the RACP have agreed to allow a meeting to go ahead that could decide who runs the college.
- Kate Aubusson
Junior doctors accuse Sydney hospital of veiled threat in leaked memo
Junior doctors have again been told to toughen up by hospital bosses despite overwhelming evidence of unsafe hours and exhaustion.
- Kate Aubusson