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Doctor silent on money

Senior Melbourne doctor who extolled virtues of surgical implants failed to tell conference audience of his financial ties to company that sells the implants.

• Three doctors may face probe into links with supplier
• Doctors' secret link to device supplier
• Hospital deals with medical giants 'waste millions'

Mokbel knew of plot to kill witness

Concerns about the police handling of two murder cases are sharpened by the revelation that drug boss Tony Mokbel had advance knowledge of one of the crimes.

• Managing murder

Surgeons' college may probe Kossmann

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons could soon begin an investigation into controversial trauma surgeon Thomas Kossmann.

• TAC probe into doctors' billing
• State 'pressured' college to accredit Alfred surgeon
• For one man, trauma lives on after the surgery
• Medicare to probe allegations of surgeon's fraud
• Report questions Alfred surgeon's 'basic' grasp
• Surgery 'rorts' to be probed
• TAC probes its links to hospitals
• Secret TAC audit questions surgeons' billing
• Top surgeon stood down after inquiry
• Hospital divided over surgeon
• The charismatic surgeon and the mutiny
• Experts to probe complaints against trauma surgeon

Legal Aid chairman probe call

Victoria Legal Aid should seek an immediate explanation from its chairman over professional-misconduct allegations against him, the State Opposition said yesterday.

• Top lawyer being probed for misconduct

Mentally ill troops tell of bullying and neglect

Serving and former soldiers break ranks to expose neglect, bullying and bastardisation faced by some Australian Defence Force personnel with mental health problems.

• How laughing became the only way to cope
• Army failed troubled digger: partner
• Haunted by demons of war, a caring man chose a tragic path
• Traumatised diggers 'denied proper mental care'

Probe into Gatto leak on takeover plan

Federal and state police are investigating the leaking of sensitive information about a planned takeover bid to underworld identity Mick Gatto and his associates.

Pilot arrested over drug operation's air shuttle

International pilot charged with carrying suitcases stuffed with cash out of Australia in multimillion-dollar drug-running and money-laundering operation.

• Pilot used code for cash, court told

Mine guard to be charged over village shooting

Security guard working for Australian mining company in the Philippines likely to face charges over shooting of an unarmed villager trying to stop demolition of houses on mine site.

Trouble at the Tax Office

A second official from the Australian Taxation Office's tax crime investigation unit has been suspended amid denials of systemic misconduct among its top investigators.

• Hit victim's details accessed at ATO
• How tax man was brought down by Gatto links
• Crime buster recruited to Gatto tax probe
• Crime gangs rort $5 billion in tax office refunds
• Tax chief rejects internal report over $5bn rorts

Faith school boom 'creates division'

Rapid growth of faith-based schools under the previous federal government threatens social cohesion of nation, according to Julia Gillard's most senior education adviser.

• IN DEPTH At the crossroads?

Watchdog slams jails oversight

Australia's only independent prison watchdog heavily criticise oversight of Victorian jails.

• Documents reveal women's prison rules flouted
• Behind the wire
• PDF Prison staff briefing notes
• PDF Documents about sexual assault allegations in 2003

Police union slams shake-up

Victoria's Police Union slams plans to overhaul school that trains police to become detectives.

• Bullying in police training
• Anti-corruption police 'shunned' at academy

Hundreds caught up in licence probe

Hundreds of truck drivers and motorcyclists given licences by company embroiled in Victoria's largest bribes-for-licences scandal remain on nation's roads.

Exclusive Brethren schools to get $10m subsidy

Secretive religious sect to receive more than $10 million from Federal Government this year.

• Sect gave Howard a few tips
• Brethren leader hits back at Rudd
• Judge's ruling warns Brethren

'Kit Walker' affair under new scrutiny

The state's police watchdog is looking at whether Victoria Police mishandled an internal investigation into a police union delegate suspected of misusing the force's email system.

• Attacks on police probe slammed
• Mullett meddles in police probe
• Watchdog lashes Mullett meddling