The ABC has uncovered the case as part of an examination of Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service's treatment of mental health patients and their suicides.
Four Corners has uncovered allegations of conflicts of interest and pro-industry bias at the country's part-time regulator responsible for Australia's biggest betting companies.
More than 100 ATMs from different suppliers have now been removed, or are being removed, from tobacco stores across Australia amid illegal market concerns.
A New York Stock Exchange listed ATM company is the latest to be found to have links to the illicit tobacco trade, and a fraudster, after an ABC investigation into how private ATM suppliers are oiling the industry.
The move follows an ABC investigation which revealed how ATM companies were fuelling predominantly cash sales of illegal cigarettes by placing their private machines in stores.
An explosive report alleging Queensland Health failed to refer a young patient to a special care team before he died by suicide was withheld from his distraught parents, prompting claims of a "cover-up".
The ABC understands a health worker drank shots of alcohol with the couple at the Gold Coast University Hospital's VAD unit, before the drugs were taken.
The cost of the accommodation for the chair, his wife and his "fur-baby Vito" at Brisbane's inner-city Ovolo hotel last year was queried by the company's CEO.
A young man was discharged from a Gold Coast hospital despite his mother warning he was suicidal. When he died days later, a review of his case fused anger to his mother's grief.