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She told women they'd been objectified, stereotyped, sold a middle-class myth of romance and marriage and that another, better, life could be had.

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Black and white image of an older Asian man with Asian script

Black and white image of an older Asian man with Asian script

Black and white image of an older Asian man with Asian script

Black and white image of an older Asian man with Asian script

COVID-19 has changed the way we do things. We're relying on video platforms to work and to connect. And it turns out that seeing our faces on-screen everyday has triggered more people to seek cosmetic enhancement than ever before.

For the longest time, Western beauty has been celebrated. The desire and pressure to look more 'Western' has led to skin whitening products, nose jobs and double eyelid surgery. But the tide is turning.

Cosmetic enhancement comes with plenty of risks. Botched surgeries, safety breaches, and in the worst-case scenario, fatal results. They've been reported for decades. Horror stories aside, chasing your aesthetic ideal is no easy task.

Patient Zero

Disease is spreading in the wake of a natural disaster on the Caribbean nation of Haiti — and everyone thinks they know where it's coming from… (Spoiler: They don't).

A junior doctor uncovers a mystery that rewrites the story of a famous epidemic — and we learn the troubling origins of 'patient zero' as a concept.

Three transplant patients die within a week of each other and alarm bells start ringing.

Equality is for ugly losers. Feminism is cancer. #submissivehousewife. Welcome to the world of tradwives, a movement with two distinct subcultures: one wholesome, one harmful.

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Why do people spread information that isn't true on social media? Especially when they know that's what they're doing?

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Alex's bible classes started taking over his life — then he discovered who was really running them. Emma's mum went from crystals to a clique that believes in aliens and past lives.

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He was a man so famous everybody knew him, yet such an enigma that nobody seemed to know anything about him. I was on a journalistic road to nowhere, but once I started, I couldn't stop, writes Louisa Lim.

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Many Australians wish they could change the way they look. How can we take back control of this unhealthy fixation?

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A growing number of Australians are having fillers, injectables and other cosmetic surgeries. The procedures raise complex questions about culture and appearance, and about beauty trends that promote a look of 'ethnic ambiguity'.

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