In his 1987 book, The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump outlined his approach to business and life and revealed hints for his future presidency. If only someone had been paying attention, writes Patrick Carlyon.
Victoria Police’s apology for using gangland lawyer Nicola Gobbo as an informer is nothing but an attempt to shield individual officers from being held to account, a lawyer assisting the royal commission says.
Victoria’s case numbers are dropping to levels that even a second-world health bureaucracy can manage. If we would allow common sense to guide us, these are the restrictions that should be lifted immediately, writes Patrick Carlyon.
The announcement that anyone breaching Melbourne’s “ring of steel” would be stung with a $5000 fine has largely passed by without comment, as we now seem gripped in a kind of collective Stockholm Syndrome, trapped by boneheaded stridency and poor policy, writes Patrick Carlyon.
Daniel Andrews has lost the confidence of the people. We have rules in Melbourne where no rules are needed, and we suffer for a government that insists on sledgehammers to swat wasps, writes Patrick Carlyon.
Nicola Gobbo threatened Chief Commissioner Simon Overland she would pull out of giving evidence in a major police corruption case, the Lawyer X Royal Commission has heard. Here’s why.
Police became ‘too close’ to gangland boss Carl Williams and were banned from attending his funeral after requesting permission to go. The shock revelation is among more documents made public as part of the Lawyer X royal commission.
Tony Mokbel sparked a massive global manhunt after fleeing his Melbourne trial over cocaine smuggling, hiding out in a Bonnie Doon cottage, driving across the Nullarbor and boarding a yacht to Greece. He might still be on the run if he hadn’t made this phone call.
Nicola Gobbo was a promising young lawyer from a privileged background with a drive to become the manipulating mastermind at the centre of Melbourne’s gangland world. Meet the real Lawyer X.
Lawyer Nicola Gobbo played off police against infamous criminals in Melbourne’s gangland war. This edited extract from Lawyer X, by Anthony Dowsley and Patrick Carlyon, reveals the brutality of that killer conflict — and how Gobbo appeared to be a pseudo member of the notorious Carl Williams crew.
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