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freelance journalist . ex ABC. work appears in The Australian, the Herald Sun, The Saturday Paper, The Age, The Monthly.
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Dozens of Australian Rules players diagnosed with CTE expose scale of AFL’s brain injury crisis

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By Jessica Halloran Verified, Amy Donaldson Verified, Wendy Carlisle
| YourLifeChoices
By Jessica Halloran, Amy Donaldson, Wendy Carlisle and Dylan Welch Thirty-three Australian Rules players, including 19 professional and semi-professional footballers, have been diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), exposing the scale of the AFL’s brain trauma crisis. Four Corners can reveal the alarming findings, compiled by the Australian Sports Brain Bank, include high-profile players who died in their 20s, 30s and 40s.
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Letter to America by Emily Light

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By Wendy Carlisle
| Terrain Verified
Ghost Pipe Flowers rooted in mushrooms rise from dead leaves, they open like periscopes breaking the ocean’s meniscus to spy the perfect spot to strike disaster. It’s past election day, past the Blood Moon eclipse and we are the shrapnel of something that happened so long ago we’ve lost the origin. The ghost pipes’ bowed white heads startle hikers, spook even the chipmunks from trampling them. By fall they’re dark and erect as a middle finger.
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The contested science of head injuries in sport

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By Wendy Carlisle
| The Saturday Paper Verified
A core member of the NRL’s concussion research group is also one of the most outspoken critics of the link between repeated head injury in sport and the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Dr Rudy Castellani, a professor of pathology at the United States’ Northwestern University, says CTE is an “invented disease … conjured out of thin air” by scientists at Boston University’s CTE Center.
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