A decade through the lens of Guardian Australia photographer Mike Bowers – in pictures
From the furnace of federal politics to bushfires, droughts and floods, Guardian Australia’s photographer-at-large captures 10 years of tumult and triumph
The investigation that blew the lid off Sydney’s environmental offsets
A series of exclusives by Lisa Cox led to a parliamentary inquiry, a state audit and Icac referrals. She looks back at the painstaking work that went into piecing it all together
Angus Taylor and the doctored document mystery: ‘It took us about 30 seconds to realise it was a fake’
When the minister tried to ‘pour a bucket of dirt’ over Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore, he ended up with mud all over himself. Investigative reporter Anne Davies spills all
Behrouz Boochani, the refugee writer who exposed the cruelty of Australia’s island jail
One inmate became the voice of the men locked up on Manus. Behrouz Boochani and Ben Doherty look back at the risks he took to get this story to the world
The staggering omission that led to Deaths Inside, the tally tracking Indigenous deaths in custody
The question was, ‘How many people have died since the 1991 royal commission?’ Nobody knew – so a Guardian Australia team spent eight months trawling through inquests and media reports, striving to highlight human stories behind shocking statistics
The startling evidence of racism Queensland police couldn’t shrug off
Leaked audio from Brisbane’s watch house outraged Australia. Reporters Eden Gillespie and Ben Smee reflect on the game-changing scoop – and a ‘blue wall of silence’
How a leaked USB stick became the Nauru files – a tale of brutality and despair told in 160,000 words
A huge cache of reports from the heart of Australia’s immigration detention regime led to a Guardian scoop – and lasting change to how the country treats asylum seekers