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TV show Aunty Jack switches to colour in Australia in 1975.

From Aunty Jack to Kath & Kim and Bluey: 50 years of colour TV in Australia

Some moments will make you cringe, but that small box in the corner of the lounge room brought us together in ways streamers never will.

  • Michael Idato, Craig Mathieson, Debi Enker and Louise Rugendyke

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Kate McClymont and author Neil Mercer talk crime at the Iron Duke Hotel.

Two legendary crime reporters sit down at a notorious pub. The chat quickly turned to Roger Rogerson

Sent to talk to the father of the victim of a police shooting, Neil Mercer came back with a story that would change his life.

  • Kate McClymont
Minter Ellison lawyer Peter Bartlett with a copy of The Age from 1980 when the paper pulled a story about the Anzus Papers for legal reasons and replaced it with an advertisement.

Growing up, he didn’t know what a lawyer was. Now he’s celebrating 50 years as a partner

Peter Bartlett has notched up a milestone unlikely to be surpassed.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Arthur Laundy.

Pub baron, disgraced NRL chief front Roger Rogerson’s memorial

Arthur Laundy, of the hotel empire fame, and Gary McIntyre, former president of the Canterbury Bulldogs, were among guests at a secret memorial for the killer cop.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Roger Rogerson in an Oxford Street coffee shop in 1982.

‘He was not born bad’: How Roger Rogerson became Australia’s most corrupt cop

Roger Rogerson started out as a “brilliant cadet”, but the system he joined was riddled with corruption.

  • Patrick Begley and Carrie Fellner

Did Roger Rogerson poison my dog? Dunno, but I did ask him curly questions

A colleague warned me not to ask Roger Rogerson about his killing of Warren Lanfranchi, but I could hardly dwell on his new stand-up comedy career.

  • Julia Baird
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Roger Rogerson and Kate McClymont.

Getting away with murder: Kate McClymont on her run-in with Australia’s most corrupt cop

Samantha Selinger-Morris, the host of Please Explain, sits down with the Herald’s chief investigative reporter Kate McClymont to discuss the life and times of corrupt cop Roger Rogerson.

Disgraced detective Roger Rogerson was linked to a dozen deaths – but the exact number is unlikely to ever be known.

‘It looked like suicide, but it wasn’t’: How many killings did ‘Artful Dodger’ cop Rogerson actually get away with?

One of Australia’s most crooked cops left a trail of bloodshed in his wake. But how many people did Roger Rogerson actually kill?

  • Carrie Fellner
Roxburgh spent three hours in make up each day before shooting the new miniseries.

Playing Roger Rogerson on screen, Richard Roxburgh found a way to master his steely gaze

Roxburgh won enormous praise for his portrayal of the corrupt policeman in the 1995 miniseries Blue Murder and its 2017 sequel. Here’s how he found his character’s greatest weapon.

  • Karl Quinn
Neil Mercer’s book is coming soon.

Revered then reviled, Roger Rogerson’s extraordinary life laid bare

He will be remembered as the man who epitomised corruption and all that was wrong in NSW Police.

  • Neil Mercer

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