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Episode 14: Payback
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Episode 14: Payback

Sick to Death · The Australian

March 13, 202653m 42s

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Show Notes

What was meant to be a light‑hearted dinner becomes weaponised into a scandal. The fallout leads to calls for Commissioner Tony Morris to be sidelined. 

But pressure doesn’t relent for Queensland Health as another scandal emerges. A bogus psychiatrist was allowed to treat patients. His credentials, the inquiry hears, were “crude forgeries”. 

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