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Penny was left traumatised after her pain was repeatedly dismissed as ordinary reproductive symptoms.

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

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West HQ chief executive Richard Errington.

The crusading club boss and his $1.7m side hustle

The gaming regulator is examining a Rooty Hill club’s decision to outsource a scoping study to its own CEO.

  • Harriet Alexander and Nigel Gladstone
Private investigators working for Nillumbik Shire Council documented the dumping of industrial waste at a property across the road from the Chetcutis’ Diamond Creek home.

A dirty job: How a father and son built one of state’s worst illegal dump sites in their own backyard

A father and son illegally built mountains of industrial waste in their own Diamond Creek backyard and on a nearby property, ignoring orders to stop for months.

  • Adam Carey
Thomas Sewell’s mansion home.

Rich mates, secret mansions: Australia’s millionaire Nazi-backers revealed

Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell is living in a secret multimillion-dollar compound in Melbourne’s far north-east “gifted” to him by one of the wealthy backers helping Australia’s neo-Nazis plot their next move into politics.

  • Sherryn Groch
The Point Piper mansion Edgewater has been subject to ongoing ownership speculation since it last traded in 2020 for $95 million.

From a $1.3m Zetland unit to one of Sydney’s most expensive homes: Estranged wife wins $95m mansion

Billionaire John Li has for the past five years called one of Australia’s most expensive properties his home. But he no longer owns it.

  • Lucy Macken
Eden Park residents opposed to Bruce Mathieson’s dam project.

Neighbours be dammed as billionaire’s dam moves a million cubic metres to hobby farm haven

Bruce Mathieson’s bid to build a large dam has unleashed an armada of heavy haulage trucks on a rural community and exposed regulatory holes.

  • Adam Carey
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The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church ordering its members to purge their homes of animals.

‘My church or the dog?’ Brethren orders members to purge pets, sparking fears of global cull

Secretive religious sect Exclusive Brethren has ordered members to get rid of pets, leaving Australian families “heartbroken” and facing a devastating choice.

  • Sherryn Groch
Australian Federation of Islamic Councils president Rateb Jneid with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, former WA premier Mark McGowan and NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian. 

Rateb Jneid has courted premiers and prime ministers. Now he is at the centre of a civil war

The former bankrupt turned professor has cemented control of one of Australia’s top religious bodies.

  • Rob Harris and Eryk Bagshaw
Alexander Phillips, the ocean views from the Bronte house and the almost buyers Filda Keci and Steven Wallace.

‘We have a big problem’: Couple’s shock over purchase of $6.2m home

Star agent Alexander Phillips billed the Bronte house as having “ocean views”. What he didn’t mention was the proposal for a block of 120 units out the back.

  • Lucy Macken
High point: the Bring Her Back team after winning best film at the AACTA Awards in Febuary.

The explosive drama behind the scenes at Australia’s main film and TV awards

The Australian Film Institute’s announcement that chief executive Damian Trewhella was leaving has triggered weeks of bitter claims and counterclaims.

  • Garry Maddox