In a shock new revelation from the Lawyer X royal commission, it can be revealed police feared barrister-turned-snitch Nicola Gobbo was giving Tony Mokbel information about murder targets at the height of Melbourne’s underworld war.
Drug kingpin Tony Mokbel’s bid for freedom is set to be bolstered on Monday, with explosive findings about his prosecution expected to be released.
At no point has Lawyer X Nicola Gobbo advanced the Hodson murder case. Despite claiming she knows who killed the police informers, the available evidence says it is very unlikely she will provide any answers — unless doing so benefits herself.
One of Melbourne’s most infamous mafia ringleaders is claiming his record-breaking ecstasy smuggling conviction was tainted because of Lawyer X’s police informing — and is now using the claim to launch a fresh bid for freedom.
When Rob Karam entrusted his lawyer, Nicola Gobbo, with an envelope containing the details of a massive shipment of ecstasy, what was meant to be paperwork for an unprecedented payday for a drug cartel became a one-way ticket to more than 275 years in jail.
It’s taken 30 years on air for Neil Mitchell to find the biggest story of his career: “I’ve never seen anything that absorbs and engages the public like this.” Mitchell opens up on working from home, why Daniel Andrews won’t come on his show and how Victorians have been let down by their leaders.
Daniel Andrews may project commitment, yet his rigour seems hollow in the absence of an apology to show he accepts blame for the greatest political catastrophe in living history. And while hope is growing about falling virus numbers, the anger has not dimmed, writes Patrick Carlyon.
The end of World War II brought relief and jubilation for a country paralysed by fear, but 75 years on Australia continues to count the cost of lives lost over the six years of conflict, writes Patrick Carlyon.
The state government has been fighting two enemies in recent days. One is from nature and the other is transparency. Daniel Andrews and his cohort don’t want us to explore the truth when they are more concerned about the optics, writes Patrick Carlyon.
The first clue Melbourne was set to enter an extreme lockdown came via text message last Saturday. But as the toll of coronavirus on aged care homes became clear days before, and case numbers soared, a “state of disaster” was inevitable 72 hours before Victoria entered one of the strictest lockdowns in the world.
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