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Major IVF clinic accused of using the wrong sperm asked to destroy thousands of samples

An audit of Queensland Fertility Group semen samples frozen before 2020 found thousands to be at high risk of misidentification because of a lack of double witnessing, a report by the state's health ombudsman says.
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Maria used a sperm donor to have her son. Then the man tracked her down

Maria thought she was doing the right thing by connecting with the sperm donor she used to conceive her baby. She now wants the clinic to warn other families.
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'We're never gonna forget what happened': The trauma of Amelia and Zach's IVF experience lingers

Ten months after their dream of becoming parents turned to tragedy, these families are still fighting a giant IVF company to find out what went wrong.
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'We got the wrong sperm': Anastasia and Lexie are living an IVF nightmare. The clinic won't take responsibility

The mystery of what went wrong at one of Australia's biggest fertility clinics haunts this couple.
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Katherine's sperm donor father could have created up to 700 children. She has a message for her siblings

Failings by two of Australia's major IVF companies allowed a man to keep donating sperm over several years using different names. Katherine Dawson is now urgently trying to find her half-siblings.
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analysis:I was just doing my job in India. Modi's government didn't like it

My time in India came to an abrupt end after I held Prime Minister Narendra Modi to account. This is my full story for the first time.
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'They're already here, they're already interfering': Indian intelligence accused of threatening Australians

The long arm of the Indian state is reaching Australians with threats against members of the Indian diaspora, the amassing of political power, and never-before-reported details of a "nest of spies".
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He's the greenie fighting windfarms. In coal country he's found an unlikely ally

This one-time Greens candidate, who is waging war on wind turbines, has found an unlikely ally — and a receptive audience — in Queensland's coal country.
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analysis:Australia can fix its broken prison system like Norway did. But first, we must face up to the facts

This year, I have spent several months with about a dozen former prisoners at a halfway house in Sydney called Rainbow Lodge. It was a sobering experience, and I'm now thoroughly disabused of my naivety.
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Claude takes in the men no-one else will. He used to be one of them

The residents of Rainbow Lodge have committed multiple crimes and been in and out of prison for decades. For many, its program is their last chance to take responsibility for their actions and prove they're ready for the outside world – but one slip-up could land them back inside.
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