How Truganini became an outlaw after double murder
Truganini has often been called the last Aboriginal Tasmanian, but a new book details her little-known life on the run as an outlaw in Victoria after her husband shot and killed two men.
Our Criminal History
‘Disgraceful’: Site where Kelly killed three cops vandalised
Descendants of officers shot by Ned Kelly and his gang at Stringybark Creek Reserve near Mansfield are reeling after the site was disturbed.
The night Quiet Joe became a killer
The brutal stabbing of a Bourke St pub patron sparked a murder trial, and a mystery over why a man known as Quiet Joe became a killer.
How violent convict enforcer John Price wound up dead
He ran Norfolk Island with unforgiving violence and zero tolerance, and his iron-fisted approach continued when he moved to Melbourne to deal with the ballooning prison population. But Price’s death should be no surprise.
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Former premier: Corruption fight a work in progress
The Fitzgerald Inquiry sent its share of crooks, politicians and police to jail, but Queensland’s culture-changing former premier Mike Ahern says there is still much to be done and “we must never drop our guard”.
Paper’s persistence busted open Qld police corruption
In the days when the internet only existed in labs and the mobile phone was years away, a young reporter and good old-fashioned journalism exposed Brisbane’s “Sin Triangle” and led to the landmark Fitzergerald Inquiry, writes Greg Chamberlin.
Sydney’s murder houses – Are they near you?
While owning a suburban home is the Australian dream for many, you’d want to make sure you’re not buying into one of NSW’s most notorious murder houses. Find out what horrors occured in these abodes. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Did Fitzgerald Inquiry net miss some big fish?
Even 30 years on, you can’t look at the Fitzgerald Inquiry and what it achieved without bumping into some stunning statistics. But did it miss some big fish? Who, through fate or design, avoided getting tangled in those impressive stats?
QLD murder houses – Are they near you?
They’re the suburban homes you’d drive past without looking twice at. But behind these average facades lies a darker story. From violent deaths to dismembered bodies, these are the crimes that shocked our neighbourhoods. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
SA murder houses – Are they near you?
From country cottages to suburban bungalows, these are the homes where the great Australian dream turned into the grisliest sort of nightmare. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Melbourne’s murder houses – Are they near you?
They’re the unassuming homes that harbour the same dark secret. From shootings and bashings, to frenzied stabbings, these are the crimes that have happened in our neighbourhoods. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Copy of corruption report ‘fell off the back of a truck’
On the eve of the release of the Fitzgerald Inquiry report, the state’s corruption busters were forced to operate under a veil of secrecy and conduct clandestine meetings – not even Premier Ahern was privy to an advance copy. But one did mysteriously appear.
Disgraced former top cop regrets ‘co-operating’
Three decades on from the Fitzgerald Inquiry into police corruption in Queensland, jailed former police commissioner Terry Lewis has doubled down on his innocence and claimed “they needed a big scalp and it was me or Joh”.
The KGB spies who lived in a quiet Melbourne street
The arrival of two defecting Soviet spies in a nondescript street in suburban Melbourne was officially strictly hush-hush. So naturally, it was Bentleigh East’s worst-kept secret.
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