Matthew Condon

Matthew Condon is an award-winning journalist and the author of more than 18 works of both fiction and non-fiction, including the bestselling true crime trilogy – Three Crooked Kings, Jacks and Jokers and All Fall Down. His other books include The Trout Opera and The Motorcycle Café. In 2019 he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for services to the community. He is a senior writer and podcaster for The Australian.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - JUNE 17, 2021.Detective Sergeant Virginia Gray leaves the Coroner's Court in Brisbane. She gave evidence in the inquest into the 1973 firebombing of the Whiskey Au Go-Go nightclub in Fortitude Valley in which 15 people died.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dan Peled

Fitzgerald-era ghosts haunt Whiskey inquest

After everything Queensland did to end corruption in the 1980s, allegations of attempts to rewrite history rear up at the Whiskey Au Go Go inquest.

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Reliving my salty memories of Scarborough

Matthew Condon finds the seaside village of his childhood transformed yet strangely familiar.

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20/05/2021 : Melissa Gray and her daughter Bella 5 and son Paxton 1, feed the seagulls hot chips, on the seafront at Redcliffe near the jetty, north of Brisbane. All of MelissaÃ¢â¬â¢s extended family are residents of the Redcliffe peninsular, and Melissa has lived here all of her life too. Pic Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Real estate of reminiscence becomes a little Riviera

In the manacled age of COVID, memories of travel come into sharper relief, and lost dwellings seem within arm’s reach.

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29/05/2020 : UQ student Drew Pavlou, with his proud grandfather Andrew (L), father Nick at the families fruit and veg shop in Birkdale, Brisbane. Drew will find out whether he is to be expelled from UQ tonight. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Uni in retreat on anti-China activist’s ban

University of Queensland distance themselves from the suspension of student activist Drew Pavlou.

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‘This is what my life has become’

Matthew Condon chronicles a tight-knit family on the verge of unravelling in lockdown.

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TWAM-20190914 EMBARGO FOR TWAM 14 SEP 2019 NO REUSE WITHOUT PERMISSIONByron Bay scenic pic : Shutterstock

Sex, vibes and influencers

An expose turned Byron Bay’s ‘utopia’ into a joke, but can an outsider ever understand it?

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