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A woman thought she had a stalker. Authorities sent her to a psych ward

This masthead has uncovered a series of disturbing cases where women say they have been disbelieved,misdiagnosed,and wrongly admitted to mental health wards. Others have been told their pain is “all in their head”.

  • Aisha Dow andKate Aubusson

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Art by Monique Westermann.

The $8.5 billion health pledge doctors say will disadvantage women

Longer consults already attract a smaller rate of funding per minute than shorter consults. The gap is set to widen despite additional funding.

  • Aisha Dow andKate Aubusson
Jenny Piper has been told she has just months to live.

‘Never taken seriously’:Jenny says doctors dismissed her concerns for years. Now she’s dying

More than 1800 women told us their stories of medical misogyny. Today we begin sharing those stories and building the case for change.

  • Kate Aubusson,Aisha Dow andEmily Kaine
Jason Haines,the managing director of Canberra food relief charity St John’s Care,said it made him “physically sick” to know that scammers were “preying on people that are basically going without”.

‘I can’t buy food for my children’:Facebook profits from charity scams costing taxpayers

Facebook operator Meta has been repeatedly warned about a nasty genre of scam ads targeting Australians,but they continue to be published.

  • Aisha Dow
Accounts from women who responded to the federal government’s End Gender Bias survey.

‘I would need to meet your mother’:Doctors refuse women’s requests for sterilisation

The detailed findings of a landmark Australian survey into gender bias in healthcare has delivered more sobering news about women’s experiences with the medical system.

  • Aisha Dow
An illustration of scam victim Jane.

Broke,desperate jobseekers are falling for ‘gold mine’ employment scams in droves

Fraudsters stole the name and branding of an international digital marketing firm to offer people bogus jobs via WhatsApp – and then fleeced them of their money.

  • Aisha Dow
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One of the Google scam ads featuring a fake image of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese that ran in late November.

Why scammers target the holiday period to launch disturbing Google ad attacks

Attention-grabbing images of bruised and battered celebrities,including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese,are being used to funnel millions of people to bogus investment sites.

  • Aisha Dow
HSBC Bank Australia,its Australian subsidiary of HSBC,posted a profit of $409.8 million in 2023.

HSBC knew customers were being scammed but didn’t help even as fraud surged:ASIC

Australia’s corporate regulator alleges the banking giant failed its customers by taking months to investigate scam reports and freezing customers’ accounts and leaving them without access to their own money.

  • Aisha Dow
Patrice Turner arrives at the Victorian Supreme Court in 2023.

Australian women lose class action over controversial medical device

Justice Andrew Keogh said chronic pelvic pain and abnormal uterine bleeding commonly affected women of reproductive age.

  • Aisha Dow

Meta bows to pressure to crack down on blatant scam ads

The social media giant has faced mounting calls to improve ad verification after a probe by this masthead revealed it had been accepting money from obvious scammers.

  • Aisha Dow