Carrie Fellner
Investigations Reporter
Carrie Fellner is an investigative reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.
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The disappearing words exposing 3M’s decades of deception over cancer link
The explosive document delivered a “holy shit” moment to lawyers fighting the Wall Street giant, showing the company had known for decades about the dangers of its forever chemicals.
- by Carrie Fellner
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As kids they splashed in the bubbles. Then these sisters got the same one-in-a-million tumour
There are burning questions about the health effects of the “forever chemicals” that are in us all.
- by Carrie Fellner
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Crime
Two dead, another in a serious condition following three NSW stabbings in 24 hours
A 16-year-old boy and a man in his 20s have died and a third man has been injured in unrelated stabbing incidents as a wave of knife crime continues across NSW.
- by Carrie Fellner
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From coffee cups to smartphones: How toxic chemicals crept into every part of your daily life
They keep smudges off your mobile and make your frying pans non-stick. But forever chemicals are linked to cancer, lurking in your blood and nearly every corner of your home.
- by Carrie Fellner and The Visual Stories Team
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High school
Parent’s anger over child joining school prayer group without consent
A Muslim community leader has questioned whether NSW public high schools are doing enough to guard against extremism among students.
- by Carrie Fellner and Lucy Carroll
The shocking attack on a ‘TikTok Bishop’ and eruption of a febrile community
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was preaching to a small congregation, but thousands were tuning in via a livestream. Within minutes, they were arriving by the carload.
- by Carrie Fellner, Harriet Alexander and Sally Rawsthorne
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Water
Australian drinking water now allows a carcinogen at 140 times the US rate
Twenty-year-old Amara Strande’s deathbed crusade pushed the US to slash the levels of cancer-linked forever chemicals considered safe in drinking water.
- by Carrie Fellner
Previously unseen draft of Brittany Higgins’ book describes debauchery as like the ‘Wolf of Wall Street’
Hedonistic parties feature in a previously unseen draft of a memoir by Higgins that has been brought to light in a reopened defamation lawsuit.
- by Carrie Fellner
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Pollution
This factory contaminated the whole world. And you helped pay for it
Most Australians can expect to find forever chemicals – also known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFAS) – in their blood.
- by Carrie Fellner
A singer withdrew $700 in Katoomba’s main street. Next, her body washed up in a local dam
A three-kilometre journey holds the key to the 2018 death of Cecilia Devine in the Blue Mountains. The case has left police mystified.
- by Carrie Fellner